I don’t know if it’s the weather or the spirit or the season or something new in the water, but the last week has been the time to turn yourself in if you’ve committed a crime.

Last week, in Tukwila, a man stepped forward to admit to shooting another guy in the face over drugs ten years ago [P-I ^[1]]. No one aside from the shooter has any idea why he finally came forward, and he’s not telling.

Then, on Monday, an entirely different man admitted to “taking part in” child rape between 1998 and 2003 [Times ^[2]]. This appears to have happened in a “religious home” on the Sammamish Plateau that housed members of a breakaway Catholic sect.

I completely approve of this trend (as though you cared), and encourage the members of our community to keep ‘fessing up–November’s almost over.