Parody of Belltown crime videos

Belltown Messenger Publisher Alex R. Mayer posted this clip on YouTube as a parody of the woman who videotaped drug-dealing outside her apartment window. (If you're like me, you'll watch the first 30 seconds and then wonder why you clicked on it in the first place.) As we've been reporting, Mayer has been widely ridiculed in the neighborhood for criticizing the woman for posting the crime videos -- even calling her a "coward." Now Mayer has posted a message on Belltown Messenger (scroll down) saying he sympathizes with her. "I wouldn't want to be a young female trying to drive my car into the garage at Concept One Apartments with all those sketchy types around," he writes. But then just when you think he's warming up to the idea that she did a good deed, he adds, "But she was far from tactful. She was even cruel." Ah, yes, exposing crime is so cruel. So unkind.