$69, $89? Seriously - how do you know notice large charges like that? It would be a different matter if the questionable charges were below $20.

It might also be good to shut down and investigate the safeties. That forklift many have had bad brakes or a malfunctioning control panel. Checking it for mechanical failure and making sure other forklifts do not have the same issues will prevent more fatalities.

One case where pot might have been involved? And how many are killed every year by alcohol?

Too bad. The one in West Seattle is wonderful. High quality everything. Hopefully, they find new digs soon.

Poetic justice would be the pair stamping license plates, picking up trash, or cleaning toilets to pay off that debt - in full, with interest, and their room and board deducted.

Because the last thing anyone needs is a lynch mob going after the wrong target. If he (or she) is in police custody, then a trial needs to be done to prove guilt.

Bloody shame that the parents not only have to worry about their kid having a rare disease that nothing could prevent, but that they face bankruptcy and financial ruin because of medical bills.

RCW 46.61.755
Traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles.

(1) Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this chapter, except as to special regulations in RCW 46.61.750 through 46.61.780 and except as to those provisions of this chapter which by their nature can have no application.

And yes, the law also states that a cyclist acting like a dick on the road can and *should* be ticketed like any car making a fool of himself.

Actually, Washington State Vehicular law says that bikes are supoposed to be on the far right edge of the roads, *not* on sidewalks where they can endanger pedestrian traffic. It's a City of Seattle ordinance that offers a loophole for sidewalk riding, provided it doesn't pose a hazard to people walking or using wheelchairs.
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/bike/Laws.htm

RCW 46.61.770
Riding on roadways and bicycle paths.

(1) Every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at a rate of speed less than the normal flow of traffic at the particular time and place shall ride as near to the right side of the right through lane as is safe except as may be appropriate while preparing to make or while making turning movements, or while overtaking and passing another bicycle or vehicle proceeding in the same direction. A person operating a bicycle upon a roadway or highway other than a limited-access highway, which roadway or highway carries traffic in one direction only and has two or more marked traffic lanes, may ride as near to the left side of the left through lane as is safe. A person operating a bicycle upon a roadway may use the shoulder of the roadway or any specially designated bicycle lane if such exists.

If compiling this information saves the life of a cyclist, pedestrian, or driver on the roads and helps design better roads and paths to prevent collisions and fatalities, then it seems a worthy use of research dollars. No one wants to be the driver who runs over and kills a 12-year-old kid biking to school.