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Yeah, and still waiting for someone to come up with photo or video.", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-05_22:15:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7872249, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872227": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thats Meth Head central over there at night. Those hoodie prowlers are there, all the way to to the 7 -11, and back all night. One almost robbed the 7 11 one night too. They hang out in Bergen Park by day a lot.<br><br>They all hang out down that alley where the Meth House is every night. Dozens of them. As we all know by now...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_12:49:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872228": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Here we go...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_12:50:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "9af9da9476e4da70149e28db47f281f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872229": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hard to believe there was only 1 person staffing the store at that hour. hopefully they will at least have one other person in there after this...i am so glad that there were no injuries and all ended up ok. thanks for the info, Geeky Swedes!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_12:56:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "6d171610d73092aec4032141f54667b2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872230": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hear the robber's gun was a foot long, and he bought it for five dollars.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_12:58:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "41a9abaafc830b9e91e2336f8443ec21", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872231": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ehound:<br>with or without tomatoes?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_12:59:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "6d171610d73092aec4032141f54667b2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872232": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Silencekit - If you think Ballard is a scene out of Its A Wonderful Like at night, try walking up to that Subway at 3 am. Then take a little stroll down the alley behind the Meth House. We will see if you get dragged inside and almost raped, as was reported in the Ballard new a few weeks back. Remember, \"Police responded to a woman screaming inside...\"   The Meth House <br><br>These people out at 3 am are not the little saints you claim. Trust me, I know first hand. You can paint the meth heads in the Bergen Park as the second coming of Jesus all you like, the fact is they are dangerous.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:04:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872233": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"These people out at 3 am are not the little saints you claim.\"<br><br>See, I never said that.  I never said any of those things.  Stop putting words in my mouth.  God, that's annoying.<br><br>You know, it's quite easy to be inside at 3AM.  Just saying...  And it's not like I think this neighborhood is flawless.  I don't like it when my girlfriend walks home from the bus at night, so I'll offer to come get her.  Just take precautions and, chances are, you'll be okay.<br><br>\"You can paint the meth heads in the Bergen Park as the second coming of Jesus all you like\"<br><br>It's post like this that, once again, makes me think you're fucking with me.  You can't be THIS full of shit.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:12:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "9af9da9476e4da70149e28db47f281f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872234": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "People are struggling in this economy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:15:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "7eaf6ded857ba241c02404302b78488f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872235": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You always take the fantasy view, that Ballard does not have a crime wave. It's simply totally untrue. Ask Art Olsen if you don't trust me. He is willing to go on the record and is an actual pillar of the community. I am just that crazy guy from <a href=\"http://myballard.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">myballard.com</a>. The vigalante, remember?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:15:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872236": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"You always take the fantasy view, that Ballard does not have a crime wave.\"<br><br>In another post I said that crime COULD be up, but it's silly to say it is without definitive proof.<br><br>Definitive isn't Art Olsen.  And like I said, I don't even know who that isl", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:18:31", "killed": false, "user_key": "9af9da9476e4da70149e28db47f281f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872237": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "SSDP<br>same s*it different post", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:21:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "6d171610d73092aec4032141f54667b2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872238": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How about the 9 out of ten people on here who have seen the crime wave first hand? All paranoid vigilantes too? And around here, Art Olsen IS the definitive word. Shows how much you know about Ballard.... I mean, Ballard even named a furniture store after the guy.<br><br>\"When Art speaks, people listen.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:21:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872239": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I hope the robber gets the help he needs. It must be terrible being poor.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:22:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "7eaf6ded857ba241c02404302b78488f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872240": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"How about the 9 out of ten people on here who have seen the crime wave first hand?\"<br><br>Still not good enough.  You need statistics.  You saying \"9 out of 10\" isn't enough.  <br><br>People on here see crime where there isn't any by the sounds of it and yeah, a lot of them are VERY paranoid, but you can't see that for some reason.<br><br>\"Shows how much you know about Ballard\"<br><br>Not really, though.  Sounds like he's just some rich old man.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:25:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "9af9da9476e4da70149e28db47f281f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872241": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ehound's joke is making me hungry.<br><br>I was robbed at gunpoint once, and it's not much fun at all.  And for the record, it wasn't in Ballard.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:26:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "boardbrown", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872242": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hi boardbrown", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:28:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "6d171610d73092aec4032141f54667b2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872243": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There's no crime in Ballard, just poor people redistributing wealth.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:29:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "7eaf6ded857ba241c02404302b78488f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872244": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "No, he is a kindly old Sweedish man and the Christ Kringle of Ballard. I am sure he even has a long white beard, to go along with the whole image. Though I have never met the man, everyone likes him and trusts his word.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:29:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872245": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey Jules!<br><br>I wonder how much cash these places really have anymore.  I mean, we all pretty much use debit for everything these days.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:35:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "boardbrown", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872246": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "that is a great point. it was either cash or food that the robber was in need of. i bet they only keep like $50 or $100 max on hand, you think?<br><br>so silly to commit a crime at all but for such a small amount especially.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:39:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "6d171610d73092aec4032141f54667b2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872247": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I was wondering the same thing.   In this age of plastic robbers probably get a lot less than they used to.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:40:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "2c114297d961797cde9a1977f05ea5ef", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872248": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great news.<br>Well, that makes me feel a hell of a lot safer.<br>So we have some armed 'hoodie' on the loose. If somebody finds a picture, or footage from surveillance video, before I do, post it here, please?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_13:47:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872249": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Armed robberies have happened here for at least 140 years, that we know of.  It's kind of misleading to say \"now\" we have an armed robber running around, as if it wasn't known to happen from time to time before now.<br><br>But get a load of how many armed robberies were going on when crime peaked in the early 90s -- that will make your hair stand on end!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_14:11:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "50a375851ec3f33f48b3b687ad84cb25", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872250": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I am pretty sure the meth addicts struggle in any economy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_14:18:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "a12304ca01a2c4f30691220abf027782", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872251": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "actually I had a friend who became addicted to crystal meth that was very financially stable.  He had a pretty good job that involved travel and soon learned where to find it on the road.<br>this cost him a relationship and he eventually got rehab, but you really can't pigeon-hole all addicts as money-hungry thieves.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_14:23:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "41a9abaafc830b9e91e2336f8443ec21", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872252": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The plural of anecdote is data.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_14:29:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "fec52287d82ab7ebf714b1b88fca6baa", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872253": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The problem with these stupid meth-heads is they can't get off their asses, take a few college courses and learn how to just make the meth themselves.  in fact, the college chemistry classes are not even needed given the step-by-step instructions you can find on the web these days.  for about $3.97 worth of pseudafed you can make yourself enough meth to last for a week, i don't care how much of a tweaker you are, and you don't have to go around robbing everybody.  You'd think in these tough times these crank addicts would show a little bit of innovation, but as usual they're all like \"wah wah, i'm a lazy meth addict, give me some speed money or i'll shoot...wah wah wah\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_14:36:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "091d3251ffd0b8bad7e80d0f589c605c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872254": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sure crime is up in Ballard.  It's up everywhere.  But I still feel safer walking at night here than anywhere else in Seattle.  Try Greenwood at 2 am and see how safe you feel.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_14:41:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "5b8abab8a8e92d61737d0f8d1bc6fdfb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872255": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "everyone jump to conclusions..obviously anyone robbing a subway is addicted to meth!!<br><br>and yes, they usually only have 1 person at that store at night. it's not busy enough to pay for more than one person on staff. is that really hard to believe?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_14:44:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "af15d6e6fbc721fbede260179f6e4085", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872256": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't really see what a second employee would've done anyway, other than putting themselves in danger, too. the guy did have a gun afterall.<br><br>any surveillance video yet?  I would think they've got  a camera or two there, not to mention any neighbors.<br>did he run away or was he in a car?  was he running late for his 'methamatics' class taught by ballad sucka #1?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_14:50:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "41a9abaafc830b9e91e2336f8443ec21", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872257": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There are cameras in the Subway on 15th.  Maybe they will release a picture of this guy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_15:02:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "41af85d53c9f5138023200d5979abd7d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872258": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Elenchos, finally correct, crime has, and does happen, still. I happen to see it increasing, but I'm just a delusional paranoid. yadda yadda...<br>My point, like in post #21, when does the public get to see the video? I'd think that the police would appreciate the extra eyes on this one.<br>And, I can't disagree that Ballard isn't the Central District, but I'm not sitting on my ass waiting for it to be that bad here. What we don't need is a Market Street that can't be distinguished from Aurora. And it's closer than you think, clearly.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_15:03:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872259": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Google up \"Ingredients of Crystal Meth\"<br><br>Battery Acid, Drano, match heads...<br><br>Just for the children who are following along. Battery acid is not something doctors suggest putting inside ones brain. It can make it function sorta funny.<br><br>How dumb does a person have to be to put this in their brain. Picture the soft issue of a brain. Do you really think it will hold up against battery acid, with no permanent damage? Give me a break.<br><br>These people who smoke it have no teeth, because it literally eats the enamel off their teeth and they fall right out. Sounds cool huh?<br><br>This drug will ruin Ballard for good if we don't take every Meth Head seriously. All kidding aside. It's no joke, and these people are showing up here in droves for all the free food and other perks. If we have to sacrifice the soup kitchens and even the food bank for a year, til we find out how to stop these people from coming, it is the price we have to pay. <br><br>Good luck getting rid of them when they have finally turned Market Street in Pioneer Square. Yes, I know... everyone at the Food Bank is an old lady, cute kid, or laid off dotcom millionaire, but still....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_15:04:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872260": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "They got rid of the covered benches at the 'park' on Market and put in those ugly art trees to get rid of the drug activity.  Didn't work.  They just deal out in the open over there now.<br>I don't think Market Street will ever be Pioneer Square but it is worse than it was 15-20 years ago.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_15:27:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "5b8abab8a8e92d61737d0f8d1bc6fdfb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872261": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Those ugly trees make me want to do drugs", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_15:46:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "710c7066c255eeec2f95af4dcd888dc2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872262": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "did anyone notice the very similar event from the 2nd of Feb. on 'phinney-wood'?<br>right down to the 'still at large' ending...<br>both hispanic, both armed, both eluded capture...<br>Bet you it's the same guy or group.<br>Pictures, video, somebody?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_15:54:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872263": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Ya, meth heads suc. They are dangerous and unpredictable. What we need to do is introduce Heroin into their environment. Get the meth heads addicted to a drug that makes them harmless, and let nature take care of the rest.  Anyone who has ever seen a H-adict half asleep, while leaning on a light poll knows that this type of adict is almost completely harmless. You could walk up to one and puch them over, and the H-adict will likely not realise he is on the ground for about an hour. <br><br>Ballard is probably  more dangerous than it was 10-15 years ago, I will grant all of the pervious posters that. But it is still one of the safest areas I have ever seen. Pioneer Square is more dangerous than Ballard, true. But neither of these neighborhoods can campare to downtown Tacoma, and Tacoma doesnt complare to most other ghettos throughout the contry. <br><br>This area is getting more dangerous, but this is the status quo for the entire world. My advice is to take steps to protect yourself and your loved ones and be happy you live is one of the safest cities in the country, possibly in  the world.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_16:10:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "e10a7c3ab9d196ce8cd8ccec8d7ceab7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872264": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "armed hispanic?  clearly this is the work of the mexican mafia we've been hearing about in the news so much lately.  perhaps if we could finally build that fence on our southern border, only this time extend a piece of it up here to surround ballard, not only would we solve the crime problem but some of us would finally get to live in the gated community we so desire.<br><br>regarding the issue of battery acid in meth, don't confuse chemicals used in the manufacture of illegal drugs with what is actually contained in the drugs themselves.  in addition many medicinal compounds actually require molecules of hydrochloric acid to be attached to them to form salts in order to make them soluble in water, and thus delivarable inside the human body.  notice how alot of drug names end in hcl?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_16:14:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "091d3251ffd0b8bad7e80d0f589c605c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872265": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "when i read myballard comments i feel like i am in the twightlight zone where the same people say the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_16:26:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "e9d8c6e6bf9369056f22dfff7a2a07fc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872266": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BHO just needs to cook up a good batch of Meth and accidently leave it by the payphone at 7-11.<br><br>I hear arsinic provides an extra kick.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_16:32:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "f9b0137cb32be76e5a171bff7ce98da7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872267": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"The plural of anecdote is data.\"<br><br><br>I think I love you, SPG.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_17:14:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "bb3fda97a582c6f50530785a99eb7e70", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872268": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "wow, spg....jump!<br>Tho, I loved you first ;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_17:22:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872269": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have friends who live in the so called meth house, and have stayed over on numerous occasions. I can tell you that nothing takes place in the house other than the occasional alcohol fueled college type paty that you would expect to find in any neighborhood that houses several college students. Not to say that all we do is drink and smoke pot, a few of us are involved in various volunteer and civic awareness programs to combat homlessness, improve the environment and address world hunger.  The rent fits our budget and it's unfortunate that we don't have the time or the resources to turn our property into a trophy Bellevue type home which all of you so desperately want.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_17:29:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "2e34888821d6f9b77fc60932bb6310a6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872270": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I can't believe I didn't get Ehound's first joke. I'm a bit slow. Maybe I need some meth", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_17:44:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "7e3029b95f69b58e7537053ffd2fe03b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872271": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Google up\"?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_17:58:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "9584571adc5c3a57f122b38cf4b88963", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872272": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Type \"Crystal Meth\" into the google search engine or \"Meth ingredients\"<br><br>Or, \"Woman on Crystal Meth Murders her entire family, then herself\"<br><br>\"Transient on Meth kills\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_18:43:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872273": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wait -- are you saying meth is BAD?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_19:02:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "25ce15378c4ecb9ae3d71d6adcadef0e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 1, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872274": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I feel like elenchos needs galsses or a hearing aid...sometime I wish I lived in a world that looks all pink and rosy..no..crime has not increased...I mean over 14 businesses that have been victims of breakins in less than 6 weeks..in a small community like Ballard... seems like the norm...I guess if crimeis down than it must have been a regualr war zone in Ballard in 1991...it is a waste of timne and energy to even respond to folks who think stats from 2 years ago are current, especially when the boundries have changed and the website states that they cannot be compared...<br><br>here an article I found...that speaks to crime being on the rise..but becuase there are notr stats it is only a reporter who has the info...and it does not speak to Ballard...just downtown Seattle.<br><br><br><br>Downtown Seattle <br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Downtown's crime rate has risen slightly in recent years<br>By MARK HIGGINS <br>SEATTLE TIMES REPORTER<br><br><br>Unlike many neighborhoods where crime rates have dropped in recent years, police statistics show that crime has worsened a little in the downtown core over the past five years.<br><br>Police attribute it to an increase in car break-ins, particularly under the Alaskan Way Viaduct. \"There's a correlation between the number of homeless to the number of car prowls,\" says Seattle Police Lt. Dick Schweitzer of the West Precinct. \"They need to get their spare change somehow.\"<br><br>In response, the Police Department has a car-prowl task force working the viaduct and Broadway area on Capitol Hill. Overall, 4,005 thefts were reported downtown in 1996, including car prowls. That represents an increase of about 500 thefts from 1991. <br><br>There also were three slayings last year downtown, compared with one in 1991. Rapes dropped from 24 in 1991 to eight last year. The number of robberies, assaults and residential burglaries have remained about the same during the five-year period.<br><br>Schweitzer says drug dealing is \"very prevalent\" and civility issues -- public urination, aggressive panhandling and intoxication -- are primary problems. Prostitution has been all but eliminated, though some escort services still dispatch hookers downtown.<br><br>The Police Department has stepped up its downtown drug buy-busts to 10 a month and is working more closely with the FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service. The crackdown showed that certain Mexican ranches were sending drug runners across the U.S. border, where they work their way up the West Coast to Seattle. As the drug runners are arrested, the ranches simply send in new recruits.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_19:18:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e9e3cb74171f48bd9e7eea4cdbdc425", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872275": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Thanks e/c, however, I think that this reporter is indeed a delusional paranoid...I hope that he gets the help he needs...take it easy Mark, it aint that bad...hold on buddy.<br>Anybody else want to chime in?  ya sure! ya betcha!...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_19:51:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872276": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BHO...lol, I'm not gonna type THAT in MY computer...lol...<br>I get enough spam already ;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_19:55:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872277": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Uhmm e/c, is that article from 1996?<br><br>Were you giving elenchos a hard time for using 2 year old stats?<br><br>Help me understand.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_20:20:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "7efd13d25dd932f13ac1ca717f01fcd0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872278": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "yes, it is from 1996..but it does show that crime was up from 1991..which was the dispute..I coudl not find anything more current...until the stats come out where we can compare 2007, 2008 and 2009, which will include consistent areas (boundries changed) then I am sure elenchos will still be doing his chant \"crime is dow, crime is down,the is paranoid people crating a herd mentality\"  Tell the Ballarch Chamber that crime is down..and I think they will disagree..but I do not have stats", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_20:47:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e9e3cb74171f48bd9e7eea4cdbdc425", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872279": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "sorry, forgot spell check...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_20:47:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e9e3cb74171f48bd9e7eea4cdbdc425", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872280": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is a link to track crimes in Ballard...like I said not stats, just  info<br><br><a href=\"http://outside.in/Ballard_Seattle_WA/tags/crime\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://outside.in/Ballard_Seattle_WA/tags/crime</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_20:53:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e9e3cb74171f48bd9e7eea4cdbdc425", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872281": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "thanks e/c truthfully, for trying to point out the obvious, yet again. <br>It seems some are just resistant to the obvious. <br>But, we will know all too soon, that crime is indeed up.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_21:18:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "8 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872282": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "'Tis definitely up in Sunset Hill.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_22:42:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "565afb5b23bdf23c1f66d8aa52c56900", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872283": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why are they robbing the Subway?  I thought they had that 5 dollar footlong special going on...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_23:20:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "3381134ff8dc2193237f9a6a713c1870", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872284": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wonder what's going to happen when this year's data comes in and it turns out there was no crime wave.  <br><br>Who's going to take responsibility for all the baseless hysteria?  Is somebody going to make it up to the homeless people who were harassed?  Will the minorities who were demonized get an apology, at least?  Will the extra demands made on SPD resources be paid back?<br><br>Probably not.  Supposedly these Ballard people are \"good folks\" who mean well.  If the crime wave was imaginary it wasn't like we knew we were doing any harm.  Not like we meant to hurt anyone.  That's how mobs work:  as individuals you are innocent and none are to blame, personally, for what the mob does.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_23:49:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "50a375851ec3f33f48b3b687ad84cb25", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872285": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "well, some of us don't have five bucks...<br>...some of us find a job...<br>The rest are the ones that concern me.<br>They take the 'foot long'...and then some.<br>Clearly, I'm not needed here...<br>STILL NO PHOTO OR VIDEO.<br>thanks for your time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-03_23:57:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872286": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Elenchos,  'slap' wake the f up will ya?<br>btw, Silence, I'd suspect that we are ALL adults here, but in case we are not, clean it up, please.<br>Elenchos, I'll take the heat, you spineless MF. Not that there's any reason to believe that you could ever be correct....", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_00:02:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872287": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I will be happy to apologize to you personally if the stats show that 2008-2009 crime was not increased for the Ballard area.  <br><br>As far as the SPD...I think they have been in the businees long enough to know how to respond to issues and resource their staff appropriately..not to worry about the extra cost of resources due to this blg. If you can show any reports or stats that they have responsed to non existent crime reports in this area, and cost us taxpayers money, by all means post them. <br><br>As far as baseless hysteria...I am not sure there is \"hysteria\" but the concern comes from people who have been robbed, neighbors or businesses they frequent being compromised etc.<br><br>Elenchos, what will your response be when you take off the rose colored glasses and realize the stats  show an increase..? And they will...<br><br>I think it may be a little dramatic to think there is a mob mentality on this targeting the homeless, and pointing the finger at them for the crime...it's more like the druggies, and punks who may or may not have an address  due to their lifestyle.  It's a commuity asking for intervention in what they perceive to be a real problem, and a distinct change to their neighbors and neighborhoods. It's about taking notice, listening to real situations and taking an honest look around you.<br><br>Take a step back and get an more objective view of this...no one is going out on horseback with nooses and guns drawn...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_00:03:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e9e3cb74171f48bd9e7eea4cdbdc425", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872288": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Look, Ballard has a problem with druggies and panhandlers.  More of a problem than it had before.  But I can still walk home alone at night (as I did tonight) with little fear.  I live in Ballard and I play in Ballard, and I still say it is  still the safest neighborhood in Seattle. <br>I'm not denying Ballard has a growing crime problem.  But it's not exactly First Hill.  Yet.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_00:24:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "5b8abab8a8e92d61737d0f8d1bc6fdfb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872289": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree, elle (#38) , the same people with nothing better to do and who think we're all entitled to their opinions, over and over and over and over and over, again....no matter what post they are commenting on!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_00:29:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "9485cbd2a15aed0ce89a5d2001edbe46", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872290": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with elle (#38) about reading the same comments by the same people over and over and over and over again!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_00:31:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "9485cbd2a15aed0ce89a5d2001edbe46", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872291": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Most time its safe. Its the one time out of 100 we have the issue with. That one time could get someone here, or their family member shot, like could have happened to the person at Subway last night.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_01:57:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872292": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey I just moved from Tacoma to Ballard and let me tell you all  I am glad I am here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_02:11:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "3cf595d3b567f0e740d59a78ccbc0611", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872293": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let's not forget. A transient murdered a woman in her home on Sunset Hill a few years back. The bloggers are not exactly logging off and going on nightly killing sprees. You would think the bloggers are the issue. <br><br>Ballard just does not have the mental health facilities, drug treatments, state, local and federal financial offices, and other services that are downtown, the U district, and Capital Hill to help the homeless correctly. <br><br>We have a few soup kitchens and a food bank. We can feed them, but, then it becomes the job of the business owners to play psychiatrist, Parole officer etc., which they are not qualified to do.<br><br>How long before someone is killed asking one to leave their shop. One bar owner had to wrestle one to the ground because he was weilding a box cutter and threatening to kill the staff and customers a few weeks ago. Now, we have a gun pointed at someones head. No need for concern?<br><br>Trust me, box cutters and guns don't exactly tickle.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_02:12:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872294": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Trixie writes<br><br>\"But I can still walk home alone at night (as I did tonight) with little fear\". <br><br>Not knowing you are in danger, is not the same as being safe.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_02:15:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872295": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "what? they didn't want to burden us with a helicopter search this time?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_02:44:30", "killed": false, "user_key": "e55a3eea56cfdcfdbb3672f486dd934c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872296": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Working fast food in ballard back in high school 15 years ago, i can tell you this isn't anything new. For BHO to automatically blame this on the local homeless and/or drug addicts is absolutely absurd. To even think that the soup kitchens and food banks are the ones attracting armed robbers to 15th ave at 10pm is delusional. I am not denying that there hasn't been an increase in crime in ballard during the recent year, but to blame it on the few social services that have been here for decades is irresponsible.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_03:41:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "cannibasaurus", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872297": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Social services have been around since the first. The need for services are obvious, especially now.<br>Get rid of the 'red carpet', do not attract the worst, help the rest, for this community is the best. <br>Let's work together, and we'll suffer less.<br><br>chopper out", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_04:28:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872298": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why would someone hold up a Subway with a gun who did not have a drug problem? Do you mind explaining, why someone would risk 20 years in prison for 100 bucks by committing armed robbery, or maybe even murder? <br><br>Also, why would someone who you think belongs in Ballard be weidling a box cutter at bar owners and patrons on Ballard ave. He found the music was not his cup of tea?<br><br>I suppose the tranisient who murdered the woman at home on Sunset Hill,  was just peachy keen and I am the \"irresponsible\" one for posting to a blog, some well known public info.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_04:29:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872299": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whos is the responsible one here? I am the one paying rent on an apartment I have had your \"responsible transients\" break into and steal my stuff and buy food I would prefer not to have to pay for myself.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_04:33:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872300": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey, i'm not saying that this particular criminal dosen't have a drug problem. But to automatically assume that this is a local homeless person is absurd. Anyone on the street usually doesn't have a firearm. What happened 3 weeks ago weeks with the assault on a police officer around the olympic athletic club? You were the first one to jump in, state for a \"fact\" that it was a local \"homeless meth head\" but dude ended up getting caught up north. I am a for increased vigilance, but the level you seem to be taking it to is dangerous.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_07:19:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "cannibasaurus", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872301": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I have no idea who the Subway robber is and never stated for a fact anything about the Olympic Gym guy. But, I assure you, it will turn out he is connected with drugs in some way. <br><br>Most people not on drugs, have no interest in robbing people at gun point, or assaulting police in the middle of the night in the parking lot of Olympic Gym. At least I don't. <br><br>Just because he was caught up North means nothing. The police have not told us how he is connected to Ballard yet. I hope he is not, but he and the one that got away probably are in some way.<br><br>My problem, is with the Meth Heads I see first hand breaking every law in the book. The cops can deal with tracking down the Subway guy. But, A picture would be nice....<br><br>What is so damn complicated about following every day laws and why is that such a controversial thing to suggest in Ballard. I am no saint, but my God, how many laws do I really break every day? Not many.. <br><br>They are pretty simple to follow along with for most adults. Start off with don't do Crystal Meth, don't sit on benches on market street drinking beer, don't sleep in Bergen Park, don't sell crack outside 7 11, don't rob the subway, don't hit the cop... what is so controversial or hard for adults to understand?  No parents taught anybody these concepts? Oh yea, parents are an outdated concept in Seattle. The kids make the rules and the parents grovel for affection.<br><br>Seriously, if they can't even do those basic things, I say get the hell out of Ballard and don't let the leaf blower hit you in the ass on the way out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_08:32:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872302": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\" Zippy - I am a for increased vigilance, but the level you seem to be taking it to is dangerous\".<br><br>My typing is dangerous, but you have no issue with a man with a box cutter, totally out of control in two Ballard Ave bars and having to be Tazed to be controlled by police.<br><br>Maybe you should stay out of the library if words are that frightening and Head over to the Meth House behind Sip and Ship. They might protect you from this terrifying blog.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_08:42:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872303": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "You are exactly right. Don't do meth (it is bad even if you are a businessman addict that doesn't commit crimes), don't home bum it and drink beer in public, don't sleep in bergen park, don't sell crack anywhere, but most important do not hold prejudice against a certain group of people. I have lived in ballard all my life, have all sorts of interest in keeping crime out, but am also concerned about my fellow man upon hard times who is stereotyped,", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_08:53:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "cannibasaurus", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872304": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Wtf BHO? I'm not in the library, and i don't rent in ballard, I own a house that has been in the family for 80+ years. I have dealt with crime for years, i'm from here. I have no problem with vigilance, but we need to keep things in context.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_09:01:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "cannibasaurus", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872305": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey, by the way, read about the history of ballard on historylink dot org. Quit with all the NIMBY shit, ballard isn't any different from neighborhoods like capital hill, u district, lake city. We all have similar pasts. You rent in ballard, there has been a lot of available rentals out in the issaquah highlands, covenants and all.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_09:12:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "cannibasaurus", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872306": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "recluctant to get in the fray here...but I don't think anyone is saying that things are differnt here than in other neighborhoods..it's just differnt than what Ballard has been in recent years, or historically speaking. I don't think we want Ballard to be like Lake City.Capital Hill, Tacoma or theU ditract and that seems to be the argument. People sound like they want to get it under control before it gets out of hand. <br><br>Arguments range from:<br><br>Is there really increased crime in Ballard?<br>Is the homeless population up?<br>Is blatant drug use up?<br>Is SPD doing everything possible to eliminate known issues (meth houses)?<br>What tactics are reasonable or not for controlling crime?<br><br>Alot of the arguments run on an emotional thread becuase there are no published statistics to prove anything so folks just shout louder to make sure they are right in their opinion.  <br><br>Seems to me that everyone should just look out for themselves, their neighbors, and do what they can to support their community instead of bashing merchants, stores or fellow residents...the stronger and more aligned a community the harder it will be to penetrate it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_12:33:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "56611924de99ebb69d89568aa9970e69", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872307": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The Neighborhood is not set up to take care of transients, and we don't have millions of dollars for needle exchanges, rehabs and mental health workers, which are already in place in Downtown, U District and Capital Hill. We are doing them a diservice by luring them in with food and doorways to sleep in, but none of those services.<br><br>Besides, you're worried about me and calling me them what they in fact are, then also call me predudice. Like I am the problem for not being compassionate enough for my \"Fellow man\" or grown men as I call them.<br><br>What ever happened to grown men not begging for 50 cents and a ciggarette on a street? I don't know about you, but I was raised not to beg for anything on the streets. There was a thing called self respect, which is why they have food stamps, welfare, work programs and other things available to these grown men. How many applications for job do you think these men fill out per week?<br><br>You think these men are actually a good influence on the kids and teenagers of Ballard? Give me a break. They are not. They are everything that kids should be raised not to become and parents should not have to be subjected to lazy grown men, high on drugs begging for things, when they try to take their kids out in Ballard. Is self respect that strange? Most are perfectly healthy men!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_12:47:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872308": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "Zippy -<br><br>Just because your family house has been here 80 years, means zip to me. I have been here a long time too and Golden City is full of third generation Ballardites, who I would not give the time of day. I will stay here and you head to Issaquah, if its so great. Sell the family home and treat your friends at Golden City to a big party on your way out of Ballard, will ya? Get yourself nice shack up in the woods there and create yourself a meth house, with all the transients you take out of Ballard. Waste your inheritence in a positive way.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_12:55:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "ab65387a1445857367cde04795ad6b04", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872309": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Zippy wrote: \"Quit with all the NIMBY shit, ballard isn\u2019t any different from neighborhoods like capital hill, u district, lake city. We all have similar pasts.\"<br><br>Au contraire, we are very unlike most neighborhoods in Seattle, with the exception of Fremont and Columbia City. Ballard was one of the outlying towns annexed into the City of Seattle (under protest) in 1907. (the last city to be annexed was Georgetown, in 1910.) Lake City didn't become part of Seattle until they changed the city limits from 85th to 145th. <br><br>We had our own police force, fire department, school district, and, unlike other residential neighborhoods, we had a huge amount of industry here; the shipyards , fishing industry and the lumber mills. Ballard was very self-contained, because of geography, industry, the prevelance of the Scandinavian community, and because it was its own town.<br><br>It is one of the few neighborhoods in Seattle where people tended to live for generations in the same place, often the same house. (West Seattle is another such neighborhood.) <br><br>During the Depression, there were actually 2 food banks here,to help out families...Ballard was hit hard during the Depression because of layoffs at the mills, and a sharp decline in shipbuilding, that didn't improve until WWII, when they built minesweepers here. I have actually done quite a lot of resarch about Ballard during the Depression. Back then, people really did step up to help their neighbors; but the people who used these services were working families fallen on hard times, not vagrants.<br><br>As an aside, someone I know works in the ER at Ballard/Swedish, and they have seen a skyrocketing use of the ER by the homeless and indigent. They get the same people, week in and week out, and a lot of \"drug-seeking behaviour\". You and I all pay for these services, through our taxes, and through higher rates to the patients who actually have insurance.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_14:25:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "247c99243b8edde0efe9157e45dd6380", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872310": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "BHO dude and 15 sock-puppet pseudonyms....  give it a f'n rest.  again, he have our side of 15th covered well.   Just keep that meth brewin and we'll keep trading you your much-needed crazy pills.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_20:52:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "d2ce77c920e64419a67f370e918454a1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872311": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sock puppet here...<br>We aren't leaving, so, you can give it a rest.<br>And no, you, alone, cannot possibly have any side of 15th covered, trust me, it isn't possible.<br>But thanks for your support.<br>I'll take some of those crazy pills, tho, after this week, I need it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_21:26:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872312": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "And thanks Nordic Woman, you are very clear, and very understood, hopefully, very appreciated here as well. Ballard is unique, don't allow these chuckle-heads to dumb it down. This isn't Kansas, Seattle, New York, or L.A.<br>It's Ballard, and it deserves better.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_21:29:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7872313": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": true, "message": "BHO GO AWAY", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-04_23:47:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "d2ce77c920e64419a67f370e918454a1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 1, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "7878650": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Chef, if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen ;-)", "is_last_child": true, "can_reply": true, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2009-04-05_05:24:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "chopper_74", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "7 months ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": true, "email": "", "parent_post_id": 7872313, "depth": 1, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": null, "theme": 2, "reply_position": false, "disqus_logo": true}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "15119329", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "108022", "hash": 6088808275082838977}, "thread": {"days_alive": 0, "slug": "subway_on_15th_robbed_at_gunpoint", "paginate": false, "num_pages": 1, "num_posts": 90, "per_page": 0, "total_posts": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 15119329, "queued": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": true, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "29ac93bcc80e20dc00554a7b3e9cc874", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": false, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://disqus.com/forums/myballard/subway_on_15th_robbed_at_gunpoint/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			return parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/myballard/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">90</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://disqus.com/forums/myballard/subway_on_15th_robbed_at_gunpoint/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://disqus.com/forums/myballard/subway_on_15th_robbed_at_gunpoint/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 </div>\
		';

		
			html = Dsq.Templates.authPost() + html;
		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/myballard/subway_on_15th_robbed_at_gunpoint/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via ' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? '<a href="http://backtype.com/">BackType</a>' : '<a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">UberVU</a>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on My Ballard" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:15119329" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'myballard',
			't'				: 'subway_on_15th_robbed_at_gunpoint',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/myballard/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/myballard/subway_on_15th_robbed_at_gunpoint/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/myballard/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'subway_on_15th_robbed_at_gunpoint'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/myballard/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'subway_on_15th_robbed_at_gunpoint'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/myballard/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'subway_on_15th_robbed_at_gunpoint'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/myballard/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/15119329/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/myballard/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/myballard/queueurl.js');
	};
};

Dsq.CNN = function() {
	var obj = {};

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}









(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Templates[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Post) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
			}
		}
	}

	//
	// Register templates.  This must be done after all themes are loaded.
	//
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('authPost', Dsq.Templates.authPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872273">Fnarf</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872273" class="dsq-comment-message">Wait -- are you saying meth is BAD?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872271">Your Neighbor</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7872271" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872271" class="dsq-comment-message">"Google up"?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872261">pt</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872261" class="dsq-comment-message">Those ugly trees make me want to do drugs</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872265">elle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872265" class="dsq-comment-message">when i read myballard comments i feel like i am in the twightlight zone where the same people say the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872252">SPG</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7872252" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872252" class="dsq-comment-message">The plural of anecdote is data.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872233">silence.kit</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872233" class="dsq-comment-message">"These people out at 3 am are not the little saints you claim."<br><br>See, I never said that.  I never said any of those things.  Stop putting words in my mouth.  God, that\'s annoying.<br><br>You know, it\'s quite easy to be inside at 3AM.  Just saying...  And it\'s not like I think this neighborhood is flawless.  I don\'t like it when my girlfriend walks home from the bus at night, so I\'ll offer to come get her.  Just take precautions and, chances are, you\'ll be okay.<br><br>"You can paint the meth heads in the Bergen Park as the second coming of Jesus all you like"<br><br>It\'s post like this that, once again, makes me think you\'re fucking with me.  You can\'t be THIS full of shit.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872237">jules</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872237" class="dsq-comment-message">SSDP<br>same s*it different post</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7872227" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872227">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872227" class="dsq-comment-message">Thats Meth Head central over there at night. Those hoodie prowlers are there, all the way to to the 7 -11, and back all night. One almost robbed the 7 11 one night too. They hang out in Bergen Park by day a lot.<br><br>They all hang out down that alley where the Meth House is every night. Dozens of them. As we all know by now...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872228">silence.kit</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872228" class="dsq-comment-message">Here we go...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872229">jules</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872229" class="dsq-comment-message">hard to believe there was only 1 person staffing the store at that hour. hopefully they will at least have one other person in there after this...i am so glad that there were no injuries and all ended up ok. thanks for the info, Geeky Swedes!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872230">Ehound</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7872230" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872230" class="dsq-comment-message">I hear the robber\'s gun was a foot long, and he bought it for five dollars.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872231">jules</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872231" class="dsq-comment-message">Ehound:<br>with or without tomatoes?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872232">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872232" class="dsq-comment-message">Silencekit - If you think Ballard is a scene out of Its A Wonderful Like at night, try walking up to that Subway at 3 am. Then take a little stroll down the alley behind the Meth House. We will see if you get dragged inside and almost raped, as was reported in the Ballard new a few weeks back. Remember, "Police responded to a woman screaming inside..."   The Meth House <br><br>These people out at 3 am are not the little saints you claim. Trust me, I know first hand. You can paint the meth heads in the Bergen Park as the second coming of Jesus all you like, the fact is they are dangerous.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872234">Stupid Hippie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7872234" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872234" class="dsq-comment-message">People are struggling in this economy.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872235">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872235" class="dsq-comment-message">You always take the fantasy view, that Ballard does not have a crime wave. It\'s simply totally untrue. Ask Art Olsen if you don\'t trust me. He is willing to go on the record and is an actual pillar of the community. I am just that crazy guy from <a href="http://myballard.com" rel="nofollow">myballard.com</a>. The vigalante, remember?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872236">silence.kit</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872236" class="dsq-comment-message">"You always take the fantasy view, that Ballard does not have a crime wave."<br><br>In another post I said that crime COULD be up, but it\'s silly to say it is without definitive proof.<br><br>Definitive isn\'t Art Olsen.  And like I said, I don\'t even know who that isl</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872238">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872238" class="dsq-comment-message">How about the 9 out of ten people on here who have seen the crime wave first hand? All paranoid vigilantes too? And around here, Art Olsen IS the definitive word. Shows how much you know about Ballard.... I mean, Ballard even named a furniture store after the guy.<br><br>"When Art speaks, people listen."</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872239">Stupid Hippie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872239" class="dsq-comment-message">I hope the robber gets the help he needs. It must be terrible being poor.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872240">silence.kit</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872240" class="dsq-comment-message">"How about the 9 out of ten people on here who have seen the crime wave first hand?"<br><br>Still not good enough.  You need statistics.  You saying "9 out of 10" isn\'t enough.  <br><br>People on here see crime where there isn\'t any by the sounds of it and yeah, a lot of them are VERY paranoid, but you can\'t see that for some reason.<br><br>"Shows how much you know about Ballard"<br><br>Not really, though.  Sounds like he\'s just some rich old man.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872241">boardbrown</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872241" class="dsq-comment-message">Ehound\'s joke is making me hungry.<br><br>I was robbed at gunpoint once, and it\'s not much fun at all.  And for the record, it wasn\'t in Ballard.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872242">jules</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872242" class="dsq-comment-message">hi boardbrown</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872243">Stupid Hippie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7872243" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872243" class="dsq-comment-message">There\'s no crime in Ballard, just poor people redistributing wealth.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872244">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872244" class="dsq-comment-message">No, he is a kindly old Sweedish man and the Christ Kringle of Ballard. I am sure he even has a long white beard, to go along with the whole image. Though I have never met the man, everyone likes him and trusts his word.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872245">boardbrown</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872245" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Jules!<br><br>I wonder how much cash these places really have anymore.  I mean, we all pretty much use debit for everything these days.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872246">jules</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872246" class="dsq-comment-message">that is a great point. it was either cash or food that the robber was in need of. i bet they only keep like $50 or $100 max on hand, you think?<br><br>so silly to commit a crime at all but for such a small amount especially.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-7872247" href="http://the3say.org/goto/sharon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sharon</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872247" class="dsq-comment-message">I was wondering the same thing.   In this age of plastic robbers probably get a lot less than they used to.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872248">chopper_74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872248" class="dsq-comment-message">Great news.<br>Well, that makes me feel a hell of a lot safer.<br>So we have some armed \'hoodie\' on the loose. If somebody finds a picture, or footage from surveillance video, before I do, post it here, please?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872249">elenchos</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872249" class="dsq-comment-message">Armed robberies have happened here for at least 140 years, that we know of.  It\'s kind of misleading to say "now" we have an armed robber running around, as if it wasn\'t known to happen from time to time before now.<br><br>But get a load of how many armed robberies were going on when crime peaked in the early 90s -- that will make your hair stand on end!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7892158" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7892158">chopper_74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7892158" class="dsq-comment-message">Note, I didn\'t say the word "now", I clearly stated in fact, what is fact, and how I feel about it. Yeah, and still waiting for someone to come up with photo or video.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872250">nina</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872250" class="dsq-comment-message">I am pretty sure the meth addicts struggle in any economy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7872251" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872251">Ehound</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872251" class="dsq-comment-message">actually I had a friend who became addicted to crystal meth that was very financially stable.  He had a pretty good job that involved travel and soon learned where to find it on the road.<br>this cost him a relationship and he eventually got rehab, but you really can\'t pigeon-hole all addicts as money-hungry thieves.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872253">Ballard Sucka #1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872253" class="dsq-comment-message">The problem with these stupid meth-heads is they can\'t get off their asses, take a few college courses and learn how to just make the meth themselves.  in fact, the college chemistry classes are not even needed given the step-by-step instructions you can find on the web these days.  for about $3.97 worth of pseudafed you can make yourself enough meth to last for a week, i don\'t care how much of a tweaker you are, and you don\'t have to go around robbing everybody.  You\'d think in these tough times these crank addicts would show a little bit of innovation, but as usual they\'re all like "wah wah, i\'m a lazy meth addict, give me some speed money or i\'ll shoot...wah wah wah".</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872254">Trix</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872254" class="dsq-comment-message">Sure crime is up in Ballard.  It\'s up everywhere.  But I still feel safer walking at night here than anywhere else in Seattle.  Try Greenwood at 2 am and see how safe you feel.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872255">randi</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872255" class="dsq-comment-message">everyone jump to conclusions..obviously anyone robbing a subway is addicted to meth!!<br><br>and yes, they usually only have 1 person at that store at night. it\'s not busy enough to pay for more than one person on staff. is that really hard to believe?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872256">Ehound</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872256" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t really see what a second employee would\'ve done anyway, other than putting themselves in danger, too. the guy did have a gun afterall.<br><br>any surveillance video yet?  I would think they\'ve got  a camera or two there, not to mention any neighbors.<br>did he run away or was he in a car?  was he running late for his \'methamatics\' class taught by ballad sucka #1?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872257">Real Ballard</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872257" class="dsq-comment-message">There are cameras in the Subway on 15th.  Maybe they will release a picture of this guy.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7872258" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872258">chopper_74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872258" class="dsq-comment-message">Elenchos, finally correct, crime has, and does happen, still. I happen to see it increasing, but I\'m just a delusional paranoid. yadda yadda...<br>My point, like in post #21, when does the public get to see the video? I\'d think that the police would appreciate the extra eyes on this one.<br>And, I can\'t disagree that Ballard isn\'t the Central District, but I\'m not sitting on my ass waiting for it to be that bad here. What we don\'t need is a Market Street that can\'t be distinguished from Aurora. And it\'s closer than you think, clearly.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7872259" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872259">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872259" class="dsq-comment-message">Google up "Ingredients of Crystal Meth"<br><br>Battery Acid, Drano, match heads...<br><br>Just for the children who are following along. Battery acid is not something doctors suggest putting inside ones brain. It can make it function sorta funny.<br><br>How dumb does a person have to be to put this in their brain. Picture the soft issue of a brain. Do you really think it will hold up against battery acid, with no permanent damage? Give me a break.<br><br>These people who smoke it have no teeth, because it literally eats the enamel off their teeth and they fall right out. Sounds cool huh?<br><br>This drug will ruin Ballard for good if we don\'t take every Meth Head seriously. All kidding aside. It\'s no joke, and these people are showing up here in droves for all the free food and other perks. If we have to sacrifice the soup kitchens and even the food bank for a year, til we find out how to stop these people from coming, it is the price we have to pay. <br><br>Good luck getting rid of them when they have finally turned Market Street in Pioneer Square. Yes, I know... everyone at the Food Bank is an old lady, cute kid, or laid off dotcom millionaire, but still....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872260">Trix</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872260" class="dsq-comment-message">They got rid of the covered benches at the \'park\' on Market and put in those ugly art trees to get rid of the drug activity.  Didn\'t work.  They just deal out in the open over there now.<br>I don\'t think Market Street will ever be Pioneer Square but it is worse than it was 15-20 years ago.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872262">chopper_74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872262" class="dsq-comment-message">did anyone notice the very similar event from the 2nd of Feb. on \'phinney-wood\'?<br>right down to the \'still at large\' ending...<br>both hispanic, both armed, both eluded capture...<br>Bet you it\'s the same guy or group.<br>Pictures, video, somebody?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872263">ChiTownRep</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872263" class="dsq-comment-message">Ya, meth heads suc. They are dangerous and unpredictable. What we need to do is introduce Heroin into their environment. Get the meth heads addicted to a drug that makes them harmless, and let nature take care of the rest.  Anyone who has ever seen a H-adict half asleep, while leaning on a light poll knows that this type of adict is almost completely harmless. You could walk up to one and puch them over, and the H-adict will likely not realise he is on the ground for about an hour. <br><br>Ballard is probably  more dangerous than it was 10-15 years ago, I will grant all of the pervious posters that. But it is still one of the safest areas I have ever seen. Pioneer Square is more dangerous than Ballard, true. But neither of these neighborhoods can campare to downtown Tacoma, and Tacoma doesnt complare to most other ghettos throughout the contry. <br><br>This area is getting more dangerous, but this is the status quo for the entire world. My advice is to take steps to protect yourself and your loved ones and be happy you live is one of the safest cities in the country, possibly in  the world.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872264">Ballard Sucka #1</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872264" class="dsq-comment-message">armed hispanic?  clearly this is the work of the mexican mafia we\'ve been hearing about in the news so much lately.  perhaps if we could finally build that fence on our southern border, only this time extend a piece of it up here to surround ballard, not only would we solve the crime problem but some of us would finally get to live in the gated community we so desire.<br><br>regarding the issue of battery acid in meth, don\'t confuse chemicals used in the manufacture of illegal drugs with what is actually contained in the drugs themselves.  in addition many medicinal compounds actually require molecules of hydrochloric acid to be attached to them to form salts in order to make them soluble in water, and thus delivarable inside the human body.  notice how alot of drug names end in hcl?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872266">NoHoBo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872266" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO just needs to cook up a good batch of Meth and accidently leave it by the payphone at 7-11.<br><br>I hear arsinic provides an extra kick.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872267">trigger.cut</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7872267" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872267" class="dsq-comment-message">"The plural of anecdote is data."<br><br><br>I think I love you, SPG.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872268">chopper_74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872268" class="dsq-comment-message">wow, spg....jump!<br>Tho, I loved you first ;-)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-7872269" href="http://www.yahoo.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">oz756c</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7872269" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872269" class="dsq-comment-message">I have friends who live in the so called meth house, and have stayed over on numerous occasions. I can tell you that nothing takes place in the house other than the occasional alcohol fueled college type paty that you would expect to find in any neighborhood that houses several college students. Not to say that all we do is drink and smoke pot, a few of us are involved in various volunteer and civic awareness programs to combat homlessness, improve the environment and address world hunger.  The rent fits our budget and it\'s unfortunate that we don\'t have the time or the resources to turn our property into a trophy Bellevue type home which all of you so desperately want.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872270">sleepynb</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872270" class="dsq-comment-message">I can\'t believe I didn\'t get Ehound\'s first joke. I\'m a bit slow. Maybe I need some meth</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872272">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872272" class="dsq-comment-message">Type "Crystal Meth" into the google search engine or "Meth ingredients"<br><br>Or, "Woman on Crystal Meth Murders her entire family, then herself"<br><br>"Transient on Meth kills"</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872274">e/c</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872274" class="dsq-comment-message">I feel like elenchos needs galsses or a hearing aid...sometime I wish I lived in a world that looks all pink and rosy..no..crime has not increased...I mean over 14 businesses that have been victims of breakins in less than 6 weeks..in a small community like Ballard... seems like the norm...I guess if crimeis down than it must have been a regualr war zone in Ballard in 1991...it is a waste of timne and energy to even respond to folks who think stats from 2 years ago are current, especially when the boundries have changed and the website states that they cannot be compared...<br><br>here an article I found...that speaks to crime being on the rise..but becuase there are notr stats it is only a reporter who has the info...and it does not speak to Ballard...just downtown Seattle.<br><br><br><br>Downtown Seattle <br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Downtown\'s crime rate has risen slightly in recent years<br>By MARK HIGGINS <br>SEATTLE TIMES REPORTER<br><br><br>Unlike many neighborhoods where crime rates have dropped in recent years, police statistics show that crime has worsened a little in the downtown core over the past five years.<br><br>Police attribute it to an increase in car break-ins, particularly under the Alaskan Way Viaduct. "There\'s a correlation between the number of homeless to the number of car prowls," says Seattle Police Lt. Dick Schweitzer of the West Precinct. "They need to get their spare change somehow."<br><br>In response, the Police Department has a car-prowl task force working the viaduct and Broadway area on Capitol Hill. Overall, 4,005 thefts were reported downtown in 1996, including car prowls. That represents an increase of about 500 thefts from 1991. <br><br>There also were three slayings last year downtown, compared with one in 1991. Rapes dropped from 24 in 1991 to eight last year. The number of robberies, assaults and residential burglaries have remained about the same during the five-year period.<br><br>Schweitzer says drug dealing is "very prevalent" and civility issues -- public urination, aggressive panhandling and intoxication -- are primary problems. Prostitution has been all but eliminated, though some escort services still dispatch hookers downtown.<br><br>The Police Department has stepped up its downtown drug buy-busts to 10 a month and is working more closely with the FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service. The crackdown showed that certain Mexican ranches were sending drug runners across the U.S. border, where they work their way up the West Coast to Seattle. As the drug runners are arrested, the ranches simply send in new recruits.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872275">chopper_74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872275" class="dsq-comment-message">Thanks e/c, however, I think that this reporter is indeed a delusional paranoid...I hope that he gets the help he needs...take it easy Mark, it aint that bad...hold on buddy.<br>Anybody else want to chime in?  ya sure! ya betcha!...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872276">chopper_74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872276" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO...lol, I\'m not gonna type THAT in MY computer...lol...<br>I get enough spam already ;-)</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872277">Ernie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872277" class="dsq-comment-message">Uhmm e/c, is that article from 1996?<br><br>Were you giving elenchos a hard time for using 2 year old stats?<br><br>Help me understand.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872278">e/c</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872278" class="dsq-comment-message">yes, it is from 1996..but it does show that crime was up from 1991..which was the dispute..I coudl not find anything more current...until the stats come out where we can compare 2007, 2008 and 2009, which will include consistent areas (boundries changed) then I am sure elenchos will still be doing his chant "crime is dow, crime is down,the is paranoid people crating a herd mentality"  Tell the Ballarch Chamber that crime is down..and I think they will disagree..but I do not have stats</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872279">e/c</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872279" class="dsq-comment-message">sorry, forgot spell check...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872280">e/c</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872280" class="dsq-comment-message">This is a link to track crimes in Ballard...like I said not stats, just  info<br><br><a href="http://outside.in/Ballard_Seattle_WA/tags/crime" rel="nofollow">http://outside.in/Ballard_Seattle_WA/tags/crime</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872281">chopper_74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872281" class="dsq-comment-message">thanks e/c truthfully, for trying to point out the obvious, yet again. <br>It seems some are just resistant to the obvious. <br>But, we will know all too soon, that crime is indeed up.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872282">Madison</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872282" class="dsq-comment-message">\'Tis definitely up in Sunset Hill.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7872283" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872283">Frank&#39;s Moonshine Closet</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7872283" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872283" class="dsq-comment-message">Why are they robbing the Subway?  I thought they had that 5 dollar footlong special going on...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872284">elenchos</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872284" class="dsq-comment-message">I wonder what\'s going to happen when this year\'s data comes in and it turns out there was no crime wave.  <br><br>Who\'s going to take responsibility for all the baseless hysteria?  Is somebody going to make it up to the homeless people who were harassed?  Will the minorities who were demonized get an apology, at least?  Will the extra demands made on SPD resources be paid back?<br><br>Probably not.  Supposedly these Ballard people are "good folks" who mean well.  If the crime wave was imaginary it wasn\'t like we knew we were doing any harm.  Not like we meant to hurt anyone.  That\'s how mobs work:  as individuals you are innocent and none are to blame, personally, for what the mob does.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872285">chopper_74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872285" class="dsq-comment-message">well, some of us don\'t have five bucks...<br>...some of us find a job...<br>The rest are the ones that concern me.<br>They take the \'foot long\'...and then some.<br>Clearly, I\'m not needed here...<br>STILL NO PHOTO OR VIDEO.<br>thanks for your time.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872286">chopper_74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872286" class="dsq-comment-message">Elenchos,  \'slap\' wake the f up will ya?<br>btw, Silence, I\'d suspect that we are ALL adults here, but in case we are not, clean it up, please.<br>Elenchos, I\'ll take the heat, you spineless MF. Not that there\'s any reason to believe that you could ever be correct....</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872287">e/c</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872287" class="dsq-comment-message">I will be happy to apologize to you personally if the stats show that 2008-2009 crime was not increased for the Ballard area.  <br><br>As far as the SPD...I think they have been in the businees long enough to know how to respond to issues and resource their staff appropriately..not to worry about the extra cost of resources due to this blg. If you can show any reports or stats that they have responsed to non existent crime reports in this area, and cost us taxpayers money, by all means post them. <br><br>As far as baseless hysteria...I am not sure there is "hysteria" but the concern comes from people who have been robbed, neighbors or businesses they frequent being compromised etc.<br><br>Elenchos, what will your response be when you take off the rose colored glasses and realize the stats  show an increase..? And they will...<br><br>I think it may be a little dramatic to think there is a mob mentality on this targeting the homeless, and pointing the finger at them for the crime...it\'s more like the druggies, and punks who may or may not have an address  due to their lifestyle.  It\'s a commuity asking for intervention in what they perceive to be a real problem, and a distinct change to their neighbors and neighborhoods. It\'s about taking notice, listening to real situations and taking an honest look around you.<br><br>Take a step back and get an more objective view of this...no one is going out on horseback with nooses and guns drawn...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872288" class="dsq-comment-message">Look, Ballard has a problem with druggies and panhandlers.  More of a problem than it had before.  But I can still walk home alone at night (as I did tonight) with little fear.  I live in Ballard and I play in Ballard, and I still say it is  still the safest neighborhood in Seattle. <br>I\'m not denying Ballard has a growing crime problem.  But it\'s not exactly First Hill.  Yet.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-7872289" href="http://myballard.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">done reading comments, forever</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872289" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree, elle (#38) , the same people with nothing better to do and who think we\'re all entitled to their opinions, over and over and over and over and over, again....no matter what post they are commenting on!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-7872290" href="http://myballard.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bgirl</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872290" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with elle (#38) about reading the same comments by the same people over and over and over and over again!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872291">Black Helicopter Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872291" class="dsq-comment-message">Most time its safe. Its the one time out of 100 we have the issue with. That one time could get someone here, or their family member shot, like could have happened to the person at Subway last night.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872292">weinerdogriley</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872292" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey I just moved from Tacoma to Ballard and let me tell you all  I am glad I am here.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872293" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s not forget. A transient murdered a woman in her home on Sunset Hill a few years back. The bloggers are not exactly logging off and going on nightly killing sprees. You would think the bloggers are the issue. <br><br>Ballard just does not have the mental health facilities, drug treatments, state, local and federal financial offices, and other services that are downtown, the U district, and Capital Hill to help the homeless correctly. <br><br>We have a few soup kitchens and a food bank. We can feed them, but, then it becomes the job of the business owners to play psychiatrist, Parole officer etc., which they are not qualified to do.<br><br>How long before someone is killed asking one to leave their shop. One bar owner had to wrestle one to the ground because he was weilding a box cutter and threatening to kill the staff and customers a few weeks ago. Now, we have a gun pointed at someones head. No need for concern?<br><br>Trust me, box cutters and guns don\'t exactly tickle.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872294" class="dsq-comment-message">Trixie writes<br><br>"But I can still walk home alone at night (as I did tonight) with little fear". <br><br>Not knowing you are in danger, is not the same as being safe.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872295">reasonable</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872295" class="dsq-comment-message">what? they didn\'t want to burden us with a helicopter search this time?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872296">gmer</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872296" class="dsq-comment-message">Working fast food in ballard back in high school 15 years ago, i can tell you this isn\'t anything new. For BHO to automatically blame this on the local homeless and/or drug addicts is absolutely absurd. To even think that the soup kitchens and food banks are the ones attracting armed robbers to 15th ave at 10pm is delusional. I am not denying that there hasn\'t been an increase in crime in ballard during the recent year, but to blame it on the few social services that have been here for decades is irresponsible.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872297">chopper_74</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872297" class="dsq-comment-message">Social services have been around since the first. The need for services are obvious, especially now.<br>Get rid of the \'red carpet\', do not attract the worst, help the rest, for this community is the best. <br>Let\'s work together, and we\'ll suffer less.<br><br>chopper out</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872298" class="dsq-comment-message">Why would someone hold up a Subway with a gun who did not have a drug problem? Do you mind explaining, why someone would risk 20 years in prison for 100 bucks by committing armed robbery, or maybe even murder? <br><br>Also, why would someone who you think belongs in Ballard be weidling a box cutter at bar owners and patrons on Ballard ave. He found the music was not his cup of tea?<br><br>I suppose the tranisient who murdered the woman at home on Sunset Hill,  was just peachy keen and I am the "irresponsible" one for posting to a blog, some well known public info.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872299" class="dsq-comment-message">Whos is the responsible one here? I am the one paying rent on an apartment I have had your "responsible transients" break into and steal my stuff and buy food I would prefer not to have to pay for myself.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872300">gmer</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872300" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, i\'m not saying that this particular criminal dosen\'t have a drug problem. But to automatically assume that this is a local homeless person is absurd. Anyone on the street usually doesn\'t have a firearm. What happened 3 weeks ago weeks with the assault on a police officer around the olympic athletic club? You were the first one to jump in, state for a "fact" that it was a local "homeless meth head" but dude ended up getting caught up north. I am a for increased vigilance, but the level you seem to be taking it to is dangerous.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872301" class="dsq-comment-message">I have no idea who the Subway robber is and never stated for a fact anything about the Olympic Gym guy. But, I assure you, it will turn out he is connected with drugs in some way. <br><br>Most people not on drugs, have no interest in robbing people at gun point, or assaulting police in the middle of the night in the parking lot of Olympic Gym. At least I don\'t. <br><br>Just because he was caught up North means nothing. The police have not told us how he is connected to Ballard yet. I hope he is not, but he and the one that got away probably are in some way.<br><br>My problem, is with the Meth Heads I see first hand breaking every law in the book. The cops can deal with tracking down the Subway guy. But, A picture would be nice....<br><br>What is so damn complicated about following every day laws and why is that such a controversial thing to suggest in Ballard. I am no saint, but my God, how many laws do I really break every day? Not many.. <br><br>They are pretty simple to follow along with for most adults. Start off with don\'t do Crystal Meth, don\'t sit on benches on market street drinking beer, don\'t sleep in Bergen Park, don\'t sell crack outside 7 11, don\'t rob the subway, don\'t hit the cop... what is so controversial or hard for adults to understand?  No parents taught anybody these concepts? Oh yea, parents are an outdated concept in Seattle. The kids make the rules and the parents grovel for affection.<br><br>Seriously, if they can\'t even do those basic things, I say get the hell out of Ballard and don\'t let the leaf blower hit you in the ass on the way out.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872302" class="dsq-comment-message">" Zippy - I am a for increased vigilance, but the level you seem to be taking it to is dangerous".<br><br>My typing is dangerous, but you have no issue with a man with a box cutter, totally out of control in two Ballard Ave bars and having to be Tazed to be controlled by police.<br><br>Maybe you should stay out of the library if words are that frightening and Head over to the Meth House behind Sip and Ship. They might protect you from this terrifying blog.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872303">gmer</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872303" class="dsq-comment-message">You are exactly right. Don\'t do meth (it is bad even if you are a businessman addict that doesn\'t commit crimes), don\'t home bum it and drink beer in public, don\'t sleep in bergen park, don\'t sell crack anywhere, but most important do not hold prejudice against a certain group of people. I have lived in ballard all my life, have all sorts of interest in keeping crime out, but am also concerned about my fellow man upon hard times who is stereotyped,</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872304">gmer</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872304" class="dsq-comment-message">Wtf BHO? I\'m not in the library, and i don\'t rent in ballard, I own a house that has been in the family for 80+ years. I have dealt with crime for years, i\'m from here. I have no problem with vigilance, but we need to keep things in context.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872305">gmer</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872305" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey, by the way, read about the history of ballard on historylink dot org. Quit with all the NIMBY shit, ballard isn\'t any different from neighborhoods like capital hill, u district, lake city. We all have similar pasts. You rent in ballard, there has been a lot of available rentals out in the issaquah highlands, covenants and all.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872306">MJ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872306" class="dsq-comment-message">recluctant to get in the fray here...but I don\'t think anyone is saying that things are differnt here than in other neighborhoods..it\'s just differnt than what Ballard has been in recent years, or historically speaking. I don\'t think we want Ballard to be like Lake City.Capital Hill, Tacoma or theU ditract and that seems to be the argument. People sound like they want to get it under control before it gets out of hand. <br><br>Arguments range from:<br><br>Is there really increased crime in Ballard?<br>Is the homeless population up?<br>Is blatant drug use up?<br>Is SPD doing everything possible to eliminate known issues (meth houses)?<br>What tactics are reasonable or not for controlling crime?<br><br>Alot of the arguments run on an emotional thread becuase there are no published statistics to prove anything so folks just shout louder to make sure they are right in their opinion.  <br><br>Seems to me that everyone should just look out for themselves, their neighbors, and do what they can to support their community instead of bashing merchants, stores or fellow residents...the stronger and more aligned a community the harder it will be to penetrate it.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872307" class="dsq-comment-message">The Neighborhood is not set up to take care of transients, and we don\'t have millions of dollars for needle exchanges, rehabs and mental health workers, which are already in place in Downtown, U District and Capital Hill. We are doing them a diservice by luring them in with food and doorways to sleep in, but none of those services.<br><br>Besides, you\'re worried about me and calling me them what they in fact are, then also call me predudice. Like I am the problem for not being compassionate enough for my "Fellow man" or grown men as I call them.<br><br>What ever happened to grown men not begging for 50 cents and a ciggarette on a street? I don\'t know about you, but I was raised not to beg for anything on the streets. There was a thing called self respect, which is why they have food stamps, welfare, work programs and other things available to these grown men. How many applications for job do you think these men fill out per week?<br><br>You think these men are actually a good influence on the kids and teenagers of Ballard? Give me a break. They are not. They are everything that kids should be raised not to become and parents should not have to be subjected to lazy grown men, high on drugs begging for things, when they try to take their kids out in Ballard. Is self respect that strange? Most are perfectly healthy men!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872308" class="dsq-comment-message">Zippy -<br><br>Just because your family house has been here 80 years, means zip to me. I have been here a long time too and Golden City is full of third generation Ballardites, who I would not give the time of day. I will stay here and you head to Issaquah, if its so great. Sell the family home and treat your friends at Golden City to a big party on your way out of Ballard, will ya? Get yourself nice shack up in the woods there and create yourself a meth house, with all the transients you take out of Ballard. Waste your inheritence in a positive way.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7919194">Grubba Selorick</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7919194" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s true, you really do suck BHO.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872309">Nordic Woman</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872309" class="dsq-comment-message">Zippy wrote: "Quit with all the NIMBY shit, ballard isn’t any different from neighborhoods like capital hill, u district, lake city. We all have similar pasts."<br><br>Au contraire, we are very unlike most neighborhoods in Seattle, with the exception of Fremont and Columbia City. Ballard was one of the outlying towns annexed into the City of Seattle (under protest) in 1907. (the last city to be annexed was Georgetown, in 1910.) Lake City didn\'t become part of Seattle until they changed the city limits from 85th to 145th. <br><br>We had our own police force, fire department, school district, and, unlike other residential neighborhoods, we had a huge amount of industry here; the shipyards , fishing industry and the lumber mills. Ballard was very self-contained, because of geography, industry, the prevelance of the Scandinavian community, and because it was its own town.<br><br>It is one of the few neighborhoods in Seattle where people tended to live for generations in the same place, often the same house. (West Seattle is another such neighborhood.) <br><br>During the Depression, there were actually 2 food banks here,to help out families...Ballard was hit hard during the Depression because of layoffs at the mills, and a sharp decline in shipbuilding, that didn\'t improve until WWII, when they built minesweepers here. I have actually done quite a lot of resarch about Ballard during the Depression. Back then, people really did step up to help their neighbors; but the people who used these services were working families fallen on hard times, not vagrants.<br><br>As an aside, someone I know works in the ER at Ballard/Swedish, and they have seen a skyrocketing use of the ER by the homeless and indigent. They get the same people, week in and week out, and a lot of "drug-seeking behaviour". You and I all pay for these services, through our taxes, and through higher rates to the patients who actually have insurance.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872310">Green Canoe Operations</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872310" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO dude and 15 sock-puppet pseudonyms....  give it a f\'n rest.  again, he have our side of 15th covered well.   Just keep that meth brewin and we\'ll keep trading you your much-needed crazy pills.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872311" class="dsq-comment-message">Sock puppet here...<br>We aren\'t leaving, so, you can give it a rest.<br>And no, you, alone, cannot possibly have any side of 15th covered, trust me, it isn\'t possible.<br>But thanks for your support.<br>I\'ll take some of those crazy pills, tho, after this week, I need it.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-7872312">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7872312" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7872312" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872312">chopper_74</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7872312" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872312" class="dsq-comment-message">And thanks Nordic Woman, you are very clear, and very understood, hopefully, very appreciated here as well. Ballard is unique, don\'t allow these chuckle-heads to dumb it down. This isn\'t Kansas, Seattle, New York, or L.A.<br>It\'s Ballard, and it deserves better.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-7872313">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7872313" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7872313" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7872313">The Swedish Chef</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7872313" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7872313" class="dsq-comment-message">BHO GO AWAY</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-7878650">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-7878650" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-7878650" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-7878650">chopper_74</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-7878650" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-7878650" class="dsq-comment-message">Chef, if you can\'t take the heat, get out of the kitchen ;-)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 </ul>\
';

(function() {
	
	





Dsq.Debug.profile(function() {
	if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page == 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.is_initial_load) {
		Dsq.container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.header() + Dsq.container.innerHTML + Dsq.Templates.footer();
	}
	Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML = Dsq.$(Dsq.curPageId).innerHTML.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
}); // Dsq.Debug.Profile

// HACK: Resetting cache because we're done with.
Dsq.Utils.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = null;


	
	
	var dsq_styleEl = document.getElementById(disqus_container_id);
	var dsq_anchorEl = document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];
	
	Dsq.Thread.fc = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, 'color');
	if(dsq_anchorEl) { Dsq.Thread.ac = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_anchorEl, 'color'); }
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Utils.getStyle(dsq_styleEl, (Dsq.Utils.ie || window.opera ? 'fontFamily' : 'font-family'));
	// For Safari / Opera: strip quotes.
	Dsq.Thread.ff = Dsq.Thread.ff.replace(/['"]/g, '');
	Dsq.Thread.fc = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.fc);
	Dsq.Thread.ac = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ac);
	Dsq.Thread.ff = encodeURIComponent(Dsq.Thread.ff);

	
	
	
	if(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer)) {
		// TODO: Check to see if theme uses postmessage.
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.textareaContainer));
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].init(function() {
				// Use fallback iframe
				Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer).innerHTML = '';
				var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$(Dsq.Templates.addPostContainer), null, {theme: theme});
				// if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
			});
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-post-add'));
		}
	}

	
	

	
	if(document.location.hash != '') {
		document.location.hash = document.location.hash.substring(1);
	}

	Dsq.Popup.showCookieMsgs();

	
	if(document.location.search != '' && location.hash != '#disqus_thread') {
		var reply_id = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams().dsq;
		if(reply_id) { document.location.hash = 'comment-' + reply_id; }
	}

	
	if((typeof OB_Script != 'undefined') && (typeof OB_versionNum != 'undefined')) {
		if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox") != -1) {
			if(window.frames['dsq-reply-frame']) {
				window.frames['dsq-reply-frame'].location = Dsq.Urls.REPLY + (new Date()).getTime() + '&f=myballard&t=subway_on_15th_robbed_at_gunpoint&to_redirect=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location) + '&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
			}
		}
	}

	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			Dsq.Realtime.initialize();
		}
	}

	



	window.ExecuteWhen = (function () {
	var obj = {}
	
	// Private
	var running = false;
	var timer = null;
	var pending = [];
	var startTimer = function() {
		running = true;
		timer = setInterval(obj.heartBeat, 100);
	};
	var stopTimer = function() {
		running = false;
		clearInterval(timer);
	};
	
	// Public
	obj.add = function (condition, code) {
		pending.push([condition,code]);
		this.heartBeat(); //!
		if (!running) {
			startTimer();
		}
	};
	obj.heartBeat = function() {
		if (!pending.length) {
			stopTimer();
		}
		var newPending = [];
		for (var i=0; i<pending.length; i++) {
			var cond = pending[i][0];
			var code = pending[i][1];
			// FIXME: if cond or code throw an error, they never get removed from pending
			if (cond()){
				code();
			}
			else {
				newPending.push([cond, code]);
			}
		}
		pending = newPending;
	};
	return obj;
})();

// also used in embed_thread.js:
window.fbIsReady = function () {return window.FB && FB.init;};
// NOTE: This script gets executed again without threadEl
//       set when we are loaded again as the fbc_receiver.
//       In this case, we don't need the hidden container.

if(!window.FB || !FB.init) {
	if(window.Dsq && Dsq.container) {
		// container is not present when init.js is loaded from an xd-receiver iframe; in this case,
		// we don't need the FB_HiddenContainer anyway.
		var fbDiv = document.createElement('div');
		fbDiv.id = "FB_HiddenContainer";	// Required or else FeatureLoader will execute a document.write.
		fbDiv.style.position = 'absolute';	// This is intentionally not setting display to none as this breaks
		fbDiv.style.top = '-10000px';		// Flash in Safari.
		fbDiv.style.left = '-10000px';
		fbDiv.style.width = '0px';
		fbDiv.style.height = '0px';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(fbDiv);
	}
	var fbJS = document.createElement('script');
	fbJS.type = "text/javascript";
	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = '29ac93bcc80e20dc00554a7b3e9cc874';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	
		Dsq.Debug.log('Loading fbc');
		window.DisqusFbcParentController = (function (){
	var obj = {};
	
	// Private
	var rpcServer = null;
	var initted = false;
	var onInit = [];
	var user = null;
	var defaultRpcClient = null;
	var receiverUrl = "http://disqus.com/facebook-connect/xd_receiver.htm";
	var loginNode = document.getElementById('dsq-fbc-login');
	var authenticatedNode = document.getElementById('dsq-fbc-authenticated');
	var fbName = document.getElementById('dsq-fbc-name');
	var fbPic = document.getElementById('dsq-fbc-profilepic');
	var iframes = { 
		// Map of rpcServerName -> (rpcClient, iframeDomNode) pairs
		// Main Disqus iframe is added by init()
	};
	var makeRpcServerName = function(opt_postId) {
		// this method should be identical here and in iframeController factored out 
		if (opt_postId === undefined) {
			return 'disqusIframeFbcRpcServer';
		} else {
			return 'disqusIframeFbcRpcServer-' + opt_postId;
		}
	};
	var makeRpcClientName = function(opt_postId) {
		if (opt_postId === undefined) {
			return 'disqusParentFbcRpcClient';
		} else {
			return 'disqusParentFbcRpcClient-' + opt_postId;
		}
	};
	var updateFrame = function(rpcServerName) {
		var rpcClient = iframes[rpcServerName][0];
		var iframeNode = iframes[rpcServerName][1];
		rpcClient.send('setConnected', user);
		iframeNode.className = user ? 'dsq-post-reply-authenticated' : 'dsq-post-reply';
	};
	var setUser = function(userNow) {
		user = userNow;
		// pass null user data to signify logout
		var rpcServerName = null;
		for (rpcServerName in iframes) {
			updateFrame(rpcServerName);
		}
	};
	var createRpcClient = function(frameNode, opt_postId) {
		// Creates an XdRpcClient for communication with the iframe frameNode with parent comment 
		// equal to opt_postId. If this argument is undefined, creates a client for communicating with 
		// the main Disqus iframe. The XdRpcClient and frameNode are added to the "iframes" array.
		//
		// Returns the rpcServerName that the client is accessing. This name is also the index into
		// the "iframes" array.
		var ifName = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId);
		var rpcServerName = makeRpcServerName(opt_postId);
		var rpcClientName = makeRpcClientName(opt_postId);
		var endpoint = new FB.XdComm.EndPoint(ifName, FB.XdComm.PageRelation.child, receiverUrl);
		var rpcClient = new FB.XdComm.XdRpcClient(rpcServerName, rpcClientName, endpoint, receiverUrl);
		iframes[rpcServerName] = [rpcClient, frameNode];
		if (window.isMashable) {
			// TODO: does this belong here?
			// Right now only Mashable needs this, because only they have a Connect button
			// inside the iframe, and that's the only iframe-> server communication
			rpcClient.send('createRpcClient', FB.XdComm.Server.singleton.get_receiverUrl());
		}
		return rpcServerName;
	};
	var postToNewsfeed = function(opt_result) {
		// Argument opt_result is an object containing values of the fb_connect_newsfeed cookies. 
		// These are `postId`, the id of the comment just posted, and `url`, the shortened link to it
		if (!opt_result) {
			return;
		}
		var activeComment = Dsq.Thread.getActiveCommentId();
		if (activeComment != opt_result.postId) {
			return;
		}
		var comment = Dsq.jsonData.posts[activeComment];
		params = {
			'site_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name,
			'comment_url': opt_result.url,
			'message': Dsq.Utils.stripTags(comment.message)
			};
		FB.Connect.showFeedDialog(83035958976, params, null, null, null, FB.RequireConnect.require);
	};
	var requireSession = function() {
		// Used when the iframe wants to initiate an FB Connect session
		FB.Connect.requireSession(obj.onLogin);
	};
	
	var onCreateReplyIframe = function(value) {
		if (value.xtype) {
			return;
		}
		var postId = value['postId'];
		if (!postId) {
			// We handle the main iframe separately, so in case somehow this gets called, skip it
			return;
		}
		var frameNode = value['node'];
		var rpcServerName = createRpcClient(frameNode, postId);
		updateFrame(rpcServerName);
		if(user && postId) {
			var node = document.getElementById('dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + postId);
			if (node) { // Not present in Mashable
				node.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	// Public
	obj.onLogin = function() {
		// This is triggered either when the user connects or when they're already connected on visit
		var dsqReplyAuth = Dsq.Utils.getElementsByClassName(document, 'div', 'dsq-reply-bar-auth');
		var noAnonMsg = document.getElementById('dsq-no-anon-msg');
		
		if(noAnonMsg) { noAnonMsg.style.display = 'none'; }
		loginNode.style.display = 'none';
		for(var i=0; i<dsqReplyAuth.length; i++) {
			dsqReplyAuth[i].style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		authenticatedNode.style.display='block';
		FB.XFBML.Host.addElement(new FB.XFBML.ProfilePic(Dsq.$('dsq-fbc-profilepic')));
		FB.XFBML.Host.addElement(new FB.XFBML.Name(Dsq.$('dsq-fbc-name')));
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(setUser);
		
		if(document.getElementById('dsq-login-message')) {
			document.getElementById('dsq-login-message').style.display = 'none';
		}

		
		if(typeof(fbcLoginCallback) == 'function') {
			fbcLoginCallback();
		}
	};
	obj.logout = function() {
		var dsqReplyAuth = Dsq.Utils.getElementsByClassName(document, 'div', 'dsq-reply-bar-auth');
		var noAnonMsg = document.getElementById('dsq-no-anon-msg');
		
		FB.Connect.logout();
		if (!window.isMashable) {
			loginNode.style.display='inline';
		}
		
		if(noAnonMsg) { noAnonMsg.style.display = 'block'; }
		
		for(var i=0; i<dsqReplyAuth.length; i++) {
			dsqReplyAuth[i].style.display = 'block';
		}
		
		authenticatedNode.style.display='none';
		// Passing null user data to signify logout
		setUser(null);
		
		if(document.getElementById('dsq-login-message')) {
			document.getElementById('dsq-login-message').style.display = 'block';
		}
		
		if(typeof(fbcLogoutCallback) == 'function') {
			fbcLogoutCallback();
		}

		return false;
	 };
	obj.ensureInit = function(callback) {
		// If the controller hasn't already been initted, will wait until it has been before calling
		// callback; otherwise, calls it immediately. Does not attempt to call init.
		if (initted) {
			callback();
		} else {
			onInit.push(callback);
		}
	};
	obj.init = function() {
		// This method should be called after the FB scripts have loaded, FB.init has been called, 
		// and XdComm loaded.
		if (initted) {
			// I think this double init is caused by a bug with FB.ensureInit
			return;
		}
		var frameNode = Dsq.$(Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId());
		var rpcServerName = createRpcClient(frameNode);
		defaultRpcClient = iframes[rpcServerName][0];
		if (!window.isMashable) {
			FB.XFBML.Host.addElement(new FB.XFBML.LoginButton(loginNode));
		}
		Dsq.Events.addHandler(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, onCreateReplyIframe);
		if (Dsq.Thread.getActiveCommentId()) {
			// If there's a highlighted comment, we may have just posted, so check the cookie
			// to see if we should post to newsfeed.
			defaultRpcClient.send('queryNewsfeed', null, postToNewsfeed);
		}
		if (window.isMashable) {
			// Right now only Mashable needs this, because only they have a Connect button
			// inside the iframe, and that's the only iframe-> server communication
			var exportedMethods = {
				requireSession : {'method': requireSession}
			};
			rpcServer = new FB.XdComm.XdRpcServer('disqusParentFbcRpcServer', exportedMethods);

		}
		initted = true;
		for (var i=0; i<onInit.length; i++) {
			onInit[i]();
		}
	};

	return obj;
})();

		ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
			function() {
				FB.ensureInit(function () {
					DisqusFbcParentController.init();
					FB.Connect.ifUserConnected(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin);
				});
			});
	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

})();




