A bike-riding man flashed his junk at several groups of girls at GW this week, at least twice on Monday, then again on Wednesday — making this officially the most weinerful week FoBo has seen in a long time. GWPD (the apparently new acronym for UPD) reports that the suspect is an approximately 20-something-year old hispanic male wearing jeans and a (possibly) khaki jacket.
From that description, our best guess is that the guy looked something like Rick Astley, but hispanic. And on a bike.
Watch out. You don't want to get dick-rolled.
This isn’t quite as scary as a hammer-wielding nutjob, but I do wonder why it took GWPD all week to send out a message about these incidents.
Full GW InfoMail message below the cut.
Click to see full report.
DCist has some deets on two favorite DC past-times merged into one right in our own neighborhood: obnoxious protesting and traffic congestion.
A man with signs that said “Justice” and “Not my $200 million” climbed on top of his van at 17th and K, then threw some molotov cocktails and evidently even hit his intended target, which was the street. He was apprehended, and traffic returned to normal.
Did any of you actually see this going on? Let us know in the comments if you have any idea what he was even “protesting.”
WUSA9 has more.
Here’s some sort-of encouraging news from the Hatchet (emphasis added):
This year, total crime in the Police Service Area 207, which encompasses the Foggy Bottom campus, is down by 6 percent from the same time period last year, according to the MPD crime-mapping Web site. The drop has been primarily seen in property crimes like thefts, stolen cars and arson, which are down by 9 percent, according to the MPD crime map. Violent crimes, which include robberies, assaults and sex abuse, are up by 25 percent in the 207 area. Since the beginning of the school year, there have been 10 such crimes, according to crime map data.
While it’s good to know that we’ve all got less of a chance of having our property stolen or set on fire (there’s been a drop in arson? really? we have actual arson rates in FoBo?), it’ s a little disturbing to hear that violent crimes like assault and sex abuse are up a whopping 25%. I’m sure putting it in terms of percentage probably makes the increase seem more dramatic, since it’s likely a relatively uncommon thing in our neighborhood, but still. 25%? Really?! I wonder what percentage of that increase the Thurston Perv alone accounts for, not to mention the Hammer-wielding Nutjob.
On a different note — the Hatchet interviewed a panhandler in the area for his views on crime. His response was that he thought the cops were doing a better job since there were less homeless people on the street. Is this just some bizarre, lazy journalism, or is it out-of-the-box thinking to find a new angle? I can’t decide. It’s weird, either way.
By Jared
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Posted in Crime
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Tagged arson, Crime, foggy bottom campus, hatchet, homeless people, mpd, nutjob, panhandler, police service area, psa 207, robberies, same time period, school year, sex abuse, the hatchet, upd, violent crime
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MPD has, via the GW listservs, emailed out a modern day Wanted poster for the hammer-wielding nutjob suspected of attacking a GW student in Duques earlier this month.
Hammer Attacker Suspect Mohammed N. Niazi
Keep your eyes peeled, fellow FoBoians.
By Jared
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Posted in Crime
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Tagged assault, attacker, Crime, duques hall, gw, GWU, hammer, mohammed niazi, mpd, nutjob, upd, werewolves
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We reported last week that the random attack in Duques Hall was allegedly carried out by some nutjob wielding a hammer, and today the Hatchet reports that MPD has confirmed that indeed it was some nutjob wielding a hammer:
A graduate student was attacked by a hammer-wielding assailant in a bathroom on the second floor of Duques Hall Friday, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report. … the incident appears to have been a random act of violence.
While the original GW infomail alert offered a description of the hammer-wielding nutjob, a secondary one was released with a more accurate description and included his image. That info is reproduced here below.
20-40 year old male, bald, possibly Middle Eastern descent, 5′10″-6 feet tall, stocky build, wearing three-quarter length light colored pants, long sleeve dark colored shirt, carrying a backpack. The following are images of the suspect/person of interest.
By Jared
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Posted in Crime, news
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Tagged act of violence, assailant, backpack, bald, duques hall, graduate student, gw, hammer, hatchet, metropolitan police department, mpd, nutjob, police department report, random act, random attack, scoop, scoop-day-doop
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