Kate writes: “Kitsap County!”
I watched Twilight this evening (yes, I admit it), and you’ll never guess what came up in the movie! Okay, so the subject line gives it away — Kitsap County. Yes, the town where the vampires live is in Washington just over the county line from our favorite weird crime vortex. It comes up when some evil vampires lay their trail as heading out of Forks, WA into Kitsap County. I totally started laughing and nobody could understand why until I explained.
Ah, sweet Kitsap County, home to the lug-nut gunman, the naked Taser-licker, and Mr. “My hands are lethal weapons” the karate imbecile. Kitsap, where… hmm, let’s see what’s up… the former mayor of one town has been arrested on felony charges for stalking, assault, and taking “indecent liberties” — though his attorney argues that the ex-mayor suffers from a disease that “can cause sexual exhibitionism, promiscuity and a loss of social inhibition.”
All that and bad vampires too. Law abiding Kitsap folks just can’t catch a break.
As a proud resident of kitsap county I’m just thrilled.
So what’s the scoop, Matt? Is Kitsap really the twilight zone? In the interest of fairness, I decided to sample the website of my childhood hometown to see whether all these wacky goings-on in Kitsap might actually just be today’s idea of small-town fun. I found arrests for running a meth lab with 6 children breathing the fumes and an arrested bank robber who said: