WEST SEATTLE CRIME WATCH: Stolen black VW Tiguan 16%

8/2/2026, 11:51:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Recency Bias, and Blind-Spot Bias, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 63.2% saturation with 36 hits. Analysis detected 110 faulty-reasoning hits from 57 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 25% and a BS Rank of 16% (24,383 of 28,846 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 84.50% of the article peer group.

Via email: 2012 black Volkswagen Tiguan stolen from 63rd Ave SW near Alki Ave on Saturday afternoon, 8/1, between 1 and 2 p.m. 
The license plate # is CHN2244. 
If anyone saw this happen, or sees the car, please let us know. 
A police report has been filed: 26-225968. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.3%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 40.4%West Seattle Blog: 2.4%Availability Heuristic40.4%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.5%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 5.6%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.1%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 14.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.4%Negativity Bias14.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 40.4%West Seattle Blog: 2.0%Recency Bias40.4%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 22.8%West Seattle Blog: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias22.8%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 12.3%West Seattle Blog: 0.8%Appeal to Authority12.3%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.5%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.9%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 63.2%West Seattle Blog: 1.6%Unattributed Quote63.2%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.3%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 2.2%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%West Seattle Blog: 1.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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