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re: Portland residents, business owners want city officials to 'fix' homeless problem
Posted on 8/21/19 at 3:39 pm to tigerbait2010
Posted on 8/21/19 at 3:39 pm to tigerbait2010
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Took about a grand in valuables but could have taken much more.
You can't leave valuables in your car, at all.
It's very sad but you can't. Sorry for your loss.
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Posted on 8/21/19 at 3:53 pm to Zappas Stache
If you know anything about lazy pieces of shite, which apparently you do not, you would know that they have a choice to be what they are. You would also know that they should be held accountable for their lifestyle choices. Do you think Portland is just a haven for mentally I’ll people? frick no. People go their to be worthless sacks of shite because they know they can get away with it. Same as all these other liberal utopias you stupid mother frickers create.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 3:56 pm to LSUballs
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If you know anything about lazy pieces of shite, which apparently you do not, you would know that they have a choice to be what they are.
Another dumbass living in a utopian dreamworld.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 3:59 pm to Paluka
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Float therapy or floating is also known as Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (R.E.S.T.), sensory deprivation, or flotation therapy.
Reminds me of the movie Altered States with William Hurt.
This post was edited on 8/21/19 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 8/21/19 at 4:03 pm to Gray12
I was watching a show, where local News station did a report.
They showed how people would try to enjoy outside dining, and less than 5 feet from them, a guy is tweeking, and ends up pissing and shitting himself, as they try to eat.
They said it happens at nearly every place, they are either tweeking near them, pissing, shitting, or begging, and verbally attacking anyone who doesn't pay them off.
They showed how people would try to enjoy outside dining, and less than 5 feet from them, a guy is tweeking, and ends up pissing and shitting himself, as they try to eat.
They said it happens at nearly every place, they are either tweeking near them, pissing, shitting, or begging, and verbally attacking anyone who doesn't pay them off.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 4:17 pm to stickly
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a woman that was obviously on drugs had her pants around her ankles and was taking a dump behind a planter right in front of the plate glass window of a packed restaurant. She was wedged between the planter and the window just blowing mud in front of a restaurant full of people.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 4:24 pm to SeeeeK
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They said it happens at nearly every place,
They lied. Like I said, I was just there for a week and have been to Portland several other times and have never seen anything like that. We ate outside on patios for most meals and drank outside on patios too. I was also in SF for 2 weeks and have been there many times and never saw anything like that. I have been sitting in a restaurant in Tyler, Texas and seen a meth head take a piss against the window. I've been yelled out by meth heads in Silsbee, Texas while sitting in my car at a cemetery waiting on my Uncle's funeral hearse to arrive.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 4:28 pm to SeeeeK
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They said it happens at nearly every place, they are either tweeking near them, pissing, shitting, or begging, and verbally attacking anyone who doesn't pay them off.
It doesn't happen at any of the places I go.
I stay away from downtown for the most part too though.
The outside patios I go to aren't facing the street or on the street so miss any stoppid shite.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 4:36 pm to Zappas Stache
The mental gymnastics you have to do to justify your stupidity is hilarious. Posted on 8/21/19 at 4:39 pm to LSUintheNW
Do you live in Oregon too? I’m in Ashland
Posted on 8/21/19 at 4:41 pm to tigerbait2010
Not currently, but have many years. I'm in Washington.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 4:43 pm to LSUballs
quote:I'm not responding to you.
LSUballs
So the local news, did a report, was on scene, with camera, taping this is it happened, yet it didn't happen?
Must be some of that secret moojoo, pixie dust the news used to create the scenes.
And lol at zappas stache. I deal with guys like him on a weekly basis. Live in affluent areas in Downtown st.louis, claim there is no crime, they walk around, bike around and no one bothers them. While later on, telling a story of how they were woken, as 2 shite bums were fighting in their alley, 2 homes were burglarized in past month, and several of their friends were beat up, while walking home from a gay bar down the street. Oh, and shots fired the week before. But i'm a pussy who ran to the burbs, lol.
You can only stick your head so far up your arse, to hide the issues.
This post was edited on 8/21/19 at 4:46 pm
Posted on 8/21/19 at 4:45 pm to northshorebamaman
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quote: Asheville, NC quote: It is a cool town but every year we get closer to the progressive Portland vibe. We have been here almost 20 years and it is a totally different place now. Not bad but hipster gentrification is like a disease. It starts with brewpubs (sweet!), morphs in to gentrification (new, vibrant stuff is nice so, ok) and ultimately ends up with all of the transplant shitheads deciding that they know best and totally displacing any indigenous goodness that is left. It is still good but I can smell the creeping progressive-ism... I had a neighbor that was evicted a few years ago and became homeless on the streets of Seattle. Coincidentally, I checked out her facebook page earlier today to see whatever happened to her and she's homeless in Asheville now. Looks like Asheville might be on the radar out here.
It’s as close to a Portland vibe as you will find on the east coast so I am not surprised at all. Buskers and panhandlers are everywhere downtown. There’s even a huge weekly drum circle downtown. It has a French Quarter freak show vibe without any of the cool history or power drinking bars.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 4:49 pm to LSUballs
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While I’m sure there are some legit mentally ill people amongst them, the majority of them are only doing it because the can get away with it.
Exactly. Ever notice you didn't have hundreds of thousands of drugged out panhandling homeless wandering the streets throughout most of American history (Great Depression being one notable exception)? It's because in the 20th, 19th and 18th centuries, if your arse didn't work, your arse didn't eat.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 4:53 pm to SeeeeK
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But i'm a pussy who ran to the burbs, lol.
Figures. quote:
Ever notice you didn't have hundreds of thousands of drugged out panhandling homeless wandering the streets throughout most of American history (Great Depression being one notable exception)? It's because in the 20th, 19th and 18th centuries, if your arse didn't work, your arse didn't eat.
Well it did happen.
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Homelessness emerged as a national issue in the 1870s. There are no national figures documenting homeless people demography at this time.[2] Jacob Riis wrote about, documented, and photographed the poor and destitute, although not specifically homeless people, in New York City tenements in the late 19th century. His book, How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890, raised public awareness of living conditions in the slums, causing some changes in building codes and some social conditions. The growing movement toward social concern sparked the development of rescue missions, such as America's first rescue mission, the New York City Rescue Mission, founded in 1872 by Jerry and Maria McAuley.[14][15] In smaller towns, there were hobos, who temporarily lived near train tracks and hopped onto trains to various destinations. Especially following the American Civil War, a large number of homeless men formed part of a counterculture known as "hobohemia" all over America.[16][17] By the late 19th century, many American towns and cities had significant numbers of homeless people[citation needed]. In New York City, for example, there was an area known as "the Bowery." Rescue missions offering "soup, soap, and salvation", a phrase introduced by The Salvation Army,[18] sprang up along the Bowery thoroughfare, including the oldest one, The Bowery Mission. The mission was founded in 1879 by the Rev. and Mrs. A.G. Ruliffson.[19]
And many of those people were locked away in insane asylums. This happened until the late 1960's early 70's and the courts ruled these people couldn't be "imprisoned" for no reason. Then the federal cuts to affordable housing in the 80's really exasperated the problem.
This post was edited on 8/21/19 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 8/21/19 at 5:01 pm to Zappas Stache
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And those people were locked away in insane asylums. This happened until the late 1960's and the courts ruled these people couldn't be "imprisoned" for no reason.
Some were. But let's not pretend like there were 200,000-400,000 indigent mentally ill people locked away at taxpayer expense in the 1800s. There wasn't a government program for every single issue back then. About half of the homeless suffer from some degree of mental illness; almost all are addicted to alcohol/drugs. The amount of money (both directly and indirectly) generally covers their food, clothing and health care while panhandling gives them the cash to feed their addictions.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 5:11 pm to stickly
Going into San Francisco Friday night to see a band at a club. Expect to have a blast like I always do. Fun town.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 5:11 pm to Zappas Stache
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Then the federal cuts to affordable housing in the 80's really exasperated the problem.
Exacerbated?
Posted on 8/21/19 at 5:18 pm to ClientNumber9
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But let's not pretend like there were 200,000-400,000 indigent mentally ill people locked away at taxpayer expense in the 1800s.
The US was also a 10th of the size it is now. But you are right, many mentally ill lived in slums. But considering even normal people lived in what we would consider horrible conditions today, the difference between "homeless" and not homeless was relatively small.
Posted on 8/21/19 at 5:20 pm to Gray12
Its everywhere.
And the law they have regarding vehicle theft, a loophole where people can say the owner gave them permission to break in and steal it..the cops cant pursue.
And the law they have regarding vehicle theft, a loophole where people can say the owner gave them permission to break in and steal it..the cops cant pursue.
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