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Big cities often get scary reputations, with some people fearing they'll get assaulted around every corner or alley. Out here in the suburbs of Seattle, no one seems quite as afraid, but you're actually more likely to get accosted here than downtown--but not by scary street thugs.

By Girl Scouts.

Yes, it's that time of year again, the time when groups of girls and their mothers camp outside your favorite grocery store and lure you in with their delicious cookies. I'd gotten a heads-up to Cookie Se