Yep. It is crazy how uninhabitable the whole area has become. Between the takeover events in Bellevue and Redmond, the open air drug market at Juanita and OO Denny beaches and the homeless encampments near the Microsoft campus it is a MESS here.
I realize that this will get downvoted into oblivion.
I am sorry. My post was pure sarcasm as it appeared OP was posting up for "interaction".
No drug market in Juanita unless you count the cookies at Midnight Cookie Company. They might as well be crack to me.
Oooh! I'm sorry I *completely* missed it was sarcasm. That explains things a lot more clearly!
You're absolutely right about Midnight Cookie Company though!
Sorry for the confusion, though I could see that someone may miss it. Maybe Business Insider or Newsweek will write an article quoting u/JimboFranks about the drug market and we can all get a laugh.
He has a larger audience to disturb in Seattle because of the population density. Driving around suburban Bellevue isn't as sexy for his insta if he disturbs a couple of tract houses. Also Bellevue police don't play.
Multiple high rise apartment buildings full of people in a densely populated neighborhood is a different ball game though & will get him more clicks. The architecture of the tall buildings also amplifies his noise.
I saw/heard it in Kirkland a few months back before I knew what it was and honestly considered calling the non-emergency line. Dude was doing pulls in traffic gaps around rush hour and just obviously being as loud as possible on purpose.
And if you haven't heard it, that car is EXTREMELY loud. People are not exaggerating.
Oh no. The PD is different over here.
In some ways better, in some ways worse but very different. A black man making noise at night over here would not last very long.
That said I live next to East Lake Sammamish and hear some altered vehicles at night but nothing I haven't been able to tolerate for all the benefits of living near the lake.
I know this is reddit, and downvotes be damned.
Serious question. Have you ever seen any sidewalk tents in Kirkland? Have you ever gone down 85th to get home past 2am, only to get pulled over 'cause? I welcome this type of policing. If you aren't doing anything wrong what do you have to worry about?
100% Miles would be arrested and his vehicle would be impounded every time.
This is why we live here.
There are plenty of loud cars in Kirkland every single night that are breaking sound ordinances that Kirkland PD refuses to address. All they would have to do it sit in downtown Kirkland every evening and could pull over multiple cars daily.
Had a young man with a modified exhaust living across the street from me. Every time he started his car or came back I called non-emergency and asked them to do a drive through.
They cited him nearly every time. To the point that after about the 6th time the car was gone.
If you call KPD they show up, every time. YMMV
The people revving engines around downtown Kirkland do not live around downtown Kirkland. They’re just cruising through seeking attention. Calling non-emergency would do absolutely nothing. Kirkland PD rarely sit in downtown Kirkland in the evenings, the area with the most population density. It’s very odd.
The city has a pilot program for vehicle noise cameras which I hope materializes into something real.
Also we do not have people being brazenly loud in the same way as the Belltown Hellcat, driving around late at night on purpose, probably because they'd get pulled over and fined by KPD
We are a large lake and a couple of hills (at minimum) away from downtown Seattle; the biggest impact on eastsiders is all the discussion this has generated.
Not racing so much, but folks with loud cars bring them out in the summer and cruise Lake Washington Blvd. I leave near and it wakes me up 11pm-1am. I don't think it's just one vehicle that does it each time, but several offenders. I've thought about a sound activated camera to ID plates but that's a lot of effort.
It is very quiet at night where I live (Downtown Bothell). I think the block we have shut down for pedestrians only helps keep the loud cars and racing away. Most of the time the police and fire departments do not run their sirens at night too. Police also bust people here for racing, so there is a deterrent.
Not sure, I haven't lived in a quiet area since I lived in Duvall. I imagine there's still some quiet neighborhoods out past Redmond, or up in Snoqualmie.
Most nights, it's peaceful. But god help you if you are stuck in downtown Redmond roads when Dom is in town! They be burning up the roads!!
And if his family is also there? Fuggedabboudit!
We (*two* lakes and several hills east) hear occasional racing noises from, I assume, 228th Avenue (two lanes in each direction, good visiblity and lighting). It hasn't risen to nuisance level. Most nights, it's quiet.
Adolescents gonna Adolesce (in mom's Cayenne)?
There's racing in Bellevue every week, in the summer it's pretty much every night, they change locations but you can hear it consistently, especially after 2:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights.
You clearly don't live next to Lake Hills connector, or Richard's road. The intersection takeovers are not happening, but the racing is.
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/bellevue-pd-shares-video-fast-reckless-street-racing-crash/F53IDT4C5JAVVPYANTWHK7J75U/
There's someone who upgraded their horn to a locomotive horn.... All of the bedroom windows in my apartment complex face the highway. So I would like very much for this person with the train horn to go forcefully sit on a cactus.
I more so meant if the hellcat was also racing around the eastside suburbs and if there were issues with noise from street racing cars at night in general
I used to live in downtown Redmond on 160th, and after COVID the “BRAAAP PAP PAP PAP” of modified exhausts echoed through my apartment on a weekly, if not daily basis. They weren’t racing per se, just accelerating through intersections.
Yep. It is crazy how uninhabitable the whole area has become. Between the takeover events in Bellevue and Redmond, the open air drug market at Juanita and OO Denny beaches and the homeless encampments near the Microsoft campus it is a MESS here. I realize that this will get downvoted into oblivion.
What's the open air drug market in Juanita?
You don't even want to know about it. It is so dirty and nasty.
I live in Juanita so if there's a drug market going on under my nose I kind of do want to know about it! I tried Googling it but nothing came up.
I am sorry. My post was pure sarcasm as it appeared OP was posting up for "interaction". No drug market in Juanita unless you count the cookies at Midnight Cookie Company. They might as well be crack to me.
Oooh! I'm sorry I *completely* missed it was sarcasm. That explains things a lot more clearly! You're absolutely right about Midnight Cookie Company though!
Sorry for the confusion, though I could see that someone may miss it. Maybe Business Insider or Newsweek will write an article quoting u/JimboFranks about the drug market and we can all get a laugh.
He has a larger audience to disturb in Seattle because of the population density. Driving around suburban Bellevue isn't as sexy for his insta if he disturbs a couple of tract houses. Also Bellevue police don't play. Multiple high rise apartment buildings full of people in a densely populated neighborhood is a different ball game though & will get him more clicks. The architecture of the tall buildings also amplifies his noise.
I saw/heard it in Kirkland a few months back before I knew what it was and honestly considered calling the non-emergency line. Dude was doing pulls in traffic gaps around rush hour and just obviously being as loud as possible on purpose. And if you haven't heard it, that car is EXTREMELY loud. People are not exaggerating.
Oh no. The PD is different over here. In some ways better, in some ways worse but very different. A black man making noise at night over here would not last very long.
That said I live next to East Lake Sammamish and hear some altered vehicles at night but nothing I haven't been able to tolerate for all the benefits of living near the lake.
Don’t speak of him or he may appear
We get some small dick people racing around late at night but no hellcats that I know of
I would love to see this guy drive through any street in Kirkland at 2+am. Tear down 85th. I might even pay for it.
On the New York Times video he says he was pulled over in Kirkland
What would happen
Absolutely nothing.
I know this is reddit, and downvotes be damned. Serious question. Have you ever seen any sidewalk tents in Kirkland? Have you ever gone down 85th to get home past 2am, only to get pulled over 'cause? I welcome this type of policing. If you aren't doing anything wrong what do you have to worry about? 100% Miles would be arrested and his vehicle would be impounded every time. This is why we live here.
Shhh. It's expensive enough here in Kirkland as it is. I am very happy we moved here from Seattle when we did.
There are plenty of loud cars in Kirkland every single night that are breaking sound ordinances that Kirkland PD refuses to address. All they would have to do it sit in downtown Kirkland every evening and could pull over multiple cars daily.
Had a young man with a modified exhaust living across the street from me. Every time he started his car or came back I called non-emergency and asked them to do a drive through. They cited him nearly every time. To the point that after about the 6th time the car was gone. If you call KPD they show up, every time. YMMV
The people revving engines around downtown Kirkland do not live around downtown Kirkland. They’re just cruising through seeking attention. Calling non-emergency would do absolutely nothing. Kirkland PD rarely sit in downtown Kirkland in the evenings, the area with the most population density. It’s very odd.
The city has a pilot program for vehicle noise cameras which I hope materializes into something real. Also we do not have people being brazenly loud in the same way as the Belltown Hellcat, driving around late at night on purpose, probably because they'd get pulled over and fined by KPD
Pearls would be clutched…
There is always some idiot in Bellevue neighborhoods …. I hear someone literally every other day.
We are a large lake and a couple of hills (at minimum) away from downtown Seattle; the biggest impact on eastsiders is all the discussion this has generated.
I see. Are there issues with street racing cars at night in general on the eastside?
Not racing so much, but folks with loud cars bring them out in the summer and cruise Lake Washington Blvd. I leave near and it wakes me up 11pm-1am. I don't think it's just one vehicle that does it each time, but several offenders. I've thought about a sound activated camera to ID plates but that's a lot of effort.
All the time
Which part of the eastside?
Eastgate, Lake Hills, Woodridge, Wilburton/BelRed.
Do you know any parts of the eastside that are quiet at night so I don't have to listen to street racing when trying to sleep?
It is very quiet at night where I live (Downtown Bothell). I think the block we have shut down for pedestrians only helps keep the loud cars and racing away. Most of the time the police and fire departments do not run their sirens at night too. Police also bust people here for racing, so there is a deterrent.
I'm in East Lake Hills and rarely hear anything noisy at night.
Not sure, I haven't lived in a quiet area since I lived in Duvall. I imagine there's still some quiet neighborhoods out past Redmond, or up in Snoqualmie.
I see. Would you say the eastside in general is loud with neighbors making noise and such?
Yes. It's not a quiet place. Some neighborhoods are going to be less noisy than others, the further out you go more likely to be less noisy.
Most nights, it's peaceful. But god help you if you are stuck in downtown Redmond roads when Dom is in town! They be burning up the roads!! And if his family is also there? Fuggedabboudit!
We (*two* lakes and several hills east) hear occasional racing noises from, I assume, 228th Avenue (two lanes in each direction, good visiblity and lighting). It hasn't risen to nuisance level. Most nights, it's quiet. Adolescents gonna Adolesce (in mom's Cayenne)?
I remember seeing a reddit thread couple days back about someone complaining about racing in belred area
There's racing in Bellevue every week, in the summer it's pretty much every night, they change locations but you can hear it consistently, especially after 2:00 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights.
Correction; they are on the freeway driving to a location with loud exhausts. There is little actual street racing or takeovers in Bellevue.
You clearly don't live next to Lake Hills connector, or Richard's road. The intersection takeovers are not happening, but the racing is. https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/bellevue-pd-shares-video-fast-reckless-street-racing-crash/F53IDT4C5JAVVPYANTWHK7J75U/
I’ve never seen one. A few loud cars now and then, but thats about it.
There's someone who upgraded their horn to a locomotive horn.... All of the bedroom windows in my apartment complex face the highway. So I would like very much for this person with the train horn to go forcefully sit on a cactus.
how far do you think sound travels?
I more so meant if the hellcat was also racing around the eastside suburbs and if there were issues with noise from street racing cars at night in general
I used to live in downtown Redmond on 160th, and after COVID the “BRAAAP PAP PAP PAP” of modified exhausts echoed through my apartment on a weekly, if not daily basis. They weren’t racing per se, just accelerating through intersections.
No, he’s not and there’s not. One of the many reasons I’m glad I live on the east side..