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They waged a fierce fight involving spotlights, construction paper and uncouth signs, but in the end roommates Sophie Parker and Karen Linebarger bowed to the realities of city livelihood and tinted their windows, lengthened their blinds and stopped strolling around their apartment in underclothes.

But the lesson they expert is one that will resonate throughout Seattle, where the line between privacy and propriety can sometimes blur amid the increasing number of high-rise condos and apartments. You can acquire a occasion with a view, they learned, but it doesn’t come without cost.

For Linebarger, 25, the lecturing began in May which time she moved into Parker’s Queen Anne Avenue North apartment with views of the city and Elliott Bay. In the in addition than two years she had been renting the apartment, Parker had been blithely living her life and minding her own calling with little importance for the broken blinds and the possible perspective they afforded her neighbors.

She was to a greater degree interested in her own view of the city than theirs.

“I just figured most people were like me,” before-mentioned the 26-year-old prior assistant to a federal appeals-court arbiter who’s taking a break at the same time that considering her next career move. “If they saw someone undressing, they’d have existence liking, ‘Oh,’ and look away.”

But Linebarger immediately noticed otherwise.

Within days of pathetic into the second-story apartment set up on a hill, she saw a man using binoculars to watch her from an apartment thwart the small parking lot to the southerly.

She brushed it off initially, but it kept happening.

Then, the man began racing in the rear and forth on his balcony, waving his mail and a flashlight at night.

It appeared he was painful to get her attention, she said.

“That went upon for a solid week in June,” said Linebarger, who works at a high-end specialty store in Pacific Place. “Finally, I called the cops.” Police wrote in a June 23 incident report that the peeping couple told them they could hardly help looking because “the girls” were always “putting on a indicate” and “walking around with no clothes on.”

The officers told the spying neighbors