Heads up of sharp increases in attacks by homeless in Portland

[ma96782]

RE : Post #134

So the guy put on all those tattoos on his face. Rrrrrright......his choice. Next.....say that he looks for a job (yeah, it could happen). BUT, But, but.....his prospective employer says.....

"Nah, that's OK. NO thanks. You don't exactly fit our corporate image."

Is that an example of......a lack of equity, racism, elitism, empathy for the homeless, etc..... etc.....?

or

A bad life style choice strikes again?

Aloha, Mark

 

[ma96782]

AOC knows the score. Cough, cough.....

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Aloha, Mark

 

[Member 53328]

RE : Post #134

So the guy put on all those tattoos on his face. Rrrrrright......his choice. Next.....say that he looks for a job (yeah, it could happen). BUT, But, but.....his prospective employer says.....

"Nah, that's OK. NO thanks. You don't exactly fit our corporate image."

Is that an example of......a lack of equity, racism, elitism, empathy for the homeless, etc..... etc.....?

or

A bad life style choice strikes again?

Aloha, Mark

Choices have consequences. He should have chose a better tattoo artist.

 

[Trapdoor45-70]

This morning when Wifey went to work she called me out to see the gas door on my pickup open and the cap setting on the ground. I keep the two 16g saddle tanks full of treated gas through the winter. Only driving it once a month or so. The guy that lives next door has his mid size Dodge PU parked in front of his house with it's gas door/cap on the ground too. Down away's and across the street where the feral's park there was the two plastic containers the dirtbags used. and fuel stains all over the ground there.
There was no gas spill in my driveway, but there was by the other guy's truck and into the road. I'm thinking those feral bubblegumpiles were thwarted from getting my fuel by the crazy 90% turns in the fill pipes of the old GM saddle tanks.

Had this happen a couple years ago.

Noticed the gas gauge down about 5 gallons and neighbor said he found my gas door open and the cap on the ground that morning. He must have noticed my displeasure with the news as he tried to put it in perspective by saying "I guess that's just the price we pay for living in such as great town".

I kept my thoughts to myself but likely didn't hide my expression at all. He looked away and left without a word. I debated putting locking gas caps on our 2 vehicles and decided I would. Knowing the attitude of the rest of my neighbors I figured they would not do such a thing, leaving my vehicles as too bothersome to siphon from because the others in the area would be easier pickings.

My gamble paid off and have yet to see any other efforts to steal gas from me, ie, punching a hole in the tank. But having to do this really pissed me off. Still does, but I remind myself that "it's only 4 more months, it's only 4 more moths".

This event accelerated my efforts to convince my wife we needed to move (in 4 months, maybe less!) . Since then the addict numbers have increased, along with the crime, trash, and all else that comes with "living in such a great city".

I greatly sympathize with those who have it worse than I and can't leave.

 

[Longwalkhome]

A lot of those homeless didn't choose to be homeless but accepted the life. While the elite have stolen 30 trillion from the treasury Americans were pushed out on the streets. Ya there are some bad people out there but far too many good people. We all could be there soon as the elite destroy the system.

I think what folks don't get is being homeless has a lot to do with how the country is run. Anyone ever heard of the Great Depression?

 

[Mikej]

I had some f-tard try to punch holes in my tank. They were unsuccessful. Nothing on my cameras either.
Long story short. Only reason i noticed was my gas gauge had a mind of its own and was registering empty 2 days after i filled it and drove 15 miles. I crawled underneath and the tell tale signs of them being failures were present.

A week before a neighbor/friend had his tank punched.

I spoke with some ferals and explained in no certain terms that it wasnt a good idea for life longevity to be caught under my truck.
The shady f-ers stopped coming up into the neighborhood for a few months.

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Looks like the same plastic kinda stuff that's around my tanks. I might have been saved by the security lights that come on over the boat and truck.

 

[ma96782]

Hummmm?









Aloha, Mark

 

[BroncoFan]

i lived in DOWNTOWN PORTLAND until two months ago - i left because its become terrible.

You left? How selfishly sociopathic of you.

 

[Tlock]

I worked up in that zombie world for 60 days and started in a hotel in the pearl. Wow......the things you can see! I will quite my job before going back up there ever again

 

[Mikej]

I worked up in that zombie world for 60 days and started in a hotel in the pearl. Wow......the things you can see! I will quite my job before going back up there ever again

must be a heck of a shock living in Lyons and having to spend time in potland?

 

[Tlock]

It almost killed me

 

[Trapdoor45-70]

A lot of those homeless didn't choose to be homeless but accepted the life. While the elite have stolen 30 trillion from the treasury Americans were pushed out on the streets. Ya there are some bad people out there but far too many good people. We all could be there soon as the elite destroy the system.

I think what folks don't get is being homeless has a lot to do with how the country is run. Anyone ever heard of the Great Depression?

I can appreciate the gentle understanding of this post, the lack of hard criticism toward those poor souls on the streets of cities like Portland. I once had far greater sympathy for them as well.

Now, I know better.

Based solely on my personal observations and experiences with the tent, vehicle campers in my neighborhood over the last 7 years I am convinced that not a single one of at least 50 individuals I've observed or spoken with are homeless due to any other reason than drug addiction.

I've offered more than one a hand up in the form of physical outdoor work, a ride to Union Gospel Mission and their excellent recovery program, or a call to a county addiction services staff member.

No one even accepted a single offer.

The violence they visit on themselves, the trash, the threats to neighbors leave me cold to their plight, one they somehow entered and cannot or will not leave.

Now, with the scourge of P2P meth in Portland, I refuse to approach the drug addicts in my area regardless of their actions - unless it threatens me and my family- because I understand how volitle and violent they can be, how the phantoms and demons brought to them by this horrifically destructive drug may/likely cause them to physically lash out at me.

I'm saddened by the state of their life, moreso for the impact on me and my neighbors, but understand that the only course now left for me is to leave this increasingly more dangerous city before my worst fear is realized.

 

[Longwalkhome]

I can appreciate the gentle understanding of this post, the lack of hard criticism toward those poor souls on the streets of cities like Portland. I once had far greater sympathy for them as well.

Now, I know better.

Based solely on my personal observations and experiences with the tent, vehicle campers in my neighborhood over the last 7 years I am convinced that not a single one of at least 50 individuals I've observed or spoken with are homeless due to any other reason than drug addiction.

I've offered more than one a hand up in the form of physical outdoor work, a ride to Union Gospel Mission and their excellent recovery program, or a call to a county addiction services staff member.

No one even accepted a single offer.

The violence they visit on themselves, the trash, the threats to neighbors leave me cold to their plight, one they somehow entered and cannot or will not leave.

Now, with the scourge of P2P meth in Portland, I refuse to approach the drug addicts in my area regardless of their actions - unless it threatens me and my family- because I understand how volitle and violent they can be, how the phantoms and demons brought to them by this horrifically destructive drug may/likely cause them to physically lash out at me.

I'm saddened by the state of their life, moreso for the impact on me and my neighbors, but understand that the only course now left for me is to leave this increasingly more dangerous city before my worst fear is realized.

Being an old man I remember hard times discussed a great deal in the generation before mine. The Great depression produced some of our worst criminal and driving folks out into the streets AGAIN will do the same thing. I don't look at this with sympathy, just understanding how we got here and what's next.

30 trillion dollars, $30,000,000,000,000 spent with nothing to show for it. $88,000 dollars for every man woman and child in America yet we have homeless turning to crime and destroying our culture.

Folks try to put a personal story with a face on it to say what slugs are on the streets and with good reason. We don't want to live like this. Yet the elite spent $30 trillion and we have nothing to show for it except poverty and Americans living in the streets.

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[American123]

he expressed a sociopathic view and i called it out as such. thats well within the context of this conversation.

"how funny of you" does not indicate a person is funny, only that he was funny in that moment.

"how kind of you" does not indicate a person is kind, only that they were kind in that moment.

"how sociopathic of you" does not indicate a person is a sociopath, only that they were sociopathic in that moment.

"how cruel of you" does not indicate a person is cruel, only that they were cruel at that moment.

im only guessing that your angle here is to try to make it out as though im name-calling or something. nope, im attacking the position, not the person.

Since we are getting caught up on labels and dehumanization. I'll interject that of course these addicts are still human as in part of the human species, but any number of pejoratives can be used to describe them. Some people say "ferals" I typically say "societal garbage" or "garbage people."

The point being is that they are subsidized to exist at the taxpayer's expense and add nothing of benefit to society but on the contrary exist at a great detriment to society. In previous civilizations they would have not survived because an elaborate social welfare system would have not been in place to keep them alive while they continued to make choices toward their own peril.

It's not sociopathic to acknowledge the reality and fact that some humans in society, based on their choices and effects, have a negative net effect while others have a net positive effect. I could easily do without the societal garbage who have a net negative effect.

 

[Longwalkhome]

How many real jobs could have been created with the 30 trillion dollars the elite stole? in three more years it's 40 trillion.

 

[Trapdoor45-70]

Being an old man I remember hard times discussed a great deal in the generation before mine. The Great depression produced some of our worst criminal and driving folks out into the streets AGAIN will do the same thing. I don't look at this with sympathy, just understanding how we got here and what's next.

30 trillion dollars, $30,000,000,000,000 spent with nothing to show for it. $88,000 dollars for every man woman and child in America yet we have homeless turning to crime and destroying our culture.

Folks try to put a personal story with a face on it to say what slugs are on the streets and with good reason. We don't want to live like this. Yet the elite spent $30 trillion and we have nothing to show for it except poverty and Americans living in the streets.

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I completely agree with your stance on spending and the damage that does to society and to people. The lengths it pushes some to. I believe we will rue the day... As a child of depression era parents, I do understand the difference between hard times for all and self-induced poverty, which is what I see in my neighborhood.

Regrettably, drugs, at least in my neighborhood and in my experience, are the driving factor in the degradation of these poor souls, my neighborhood and Portland in general.

But that is too simple, it is also the changes in state and local law enforcement and prosecution that has so readily enabled this scourge to flourish.

Every elected official in Portland,. Multnomah County and many at the state level are directly responsible for the mess in Portland.

And I'm one of the fortunate ones. I'm leaving this socialist created, 3rd world crap hole.

Despite my economic challenges, brought on in part by my depression-era upbringing, I made choices that did not lead me to invest in becoming a drug addicted ward of the state.

I have sympathy for those poor souls, but it is now microns deep as they pose a clear, ready, and present danger to me and my family. I'm deeply grateful that I'm likely to escape this socialist hell before anything bad happens.

And, Longwalkhome, I truly mean no disrespect for your views.

 

[Cavedweller]

Ted Wheeler moved to hood river. They're starting to follow him (and all the Bay Area califoreigners) out there.

tod whalen moved to Hood River? Where'd you get that? A quick search didn't bring anything up. I did find he must live in the city to remain mayor of potland.

Interesting if true. He has a home in the West Hills, so maybe he can live elsewhere, yet claim residency by virtue of his property ownership in the city. I have relations in Hood River. From what I hear the population influx there is not so much Californicators, but more windsurfers from points east. I have been told that 30% of the homes in HR are either vacation rentals, or part time residences of east coast wind surfers. That, combined with an artificial shortage of building sites due to urban growth boundaries, has driven the average price of a 2 bedroom home on a postage stamp-sized lot to over $ half a million.

Doesn't one of our senators live in NYC?

Ron wyden, just from what I hear from Lard Larson, spends most of his time in his "Home" in D.C..

Ron Wyden, when he is not in DC, lives in NYC. That is true. Yet he is Oregon's senior senator. Go figure.

(proving yet again that Oregonians are idiots)

 

[Longwalkhome]

I completely agree with your stance on spending and the damage that does to society and to people. The lengths it pushes some to. I believe we will rue the day... As a child of depression era parents, I do understand the difference between hard times for all and self-induced poverty, which is what I see in my neighborhood.

Regrettably, drugs, at least in my neighborhood and in my experience, are the driving factor in the degradation of these poor souls, my neighborhood and Portland in general.

But that is too simple, it is also the changes in state and local law enforcement and prosecution that has so readily enabled this scourge to flourish.

Every elected official in Portland,. Multnomah County and many at the state level are directly responsible for the mess in Portland.

And I'm one of the fortunate ones. I'm leaving this socialist created, 3rd world crap hole.

Despite my economic challenges, brought on in part by my depression-era upbringing, I made choices that did not lead me to invest in becoming a drug addicted ward of the state.

I have sympathy for those poor souls, but it is now microns deep as they pose a clear, ready, and present danger to me and my family. I'm deeply grateful that I'm likely to escape this socialist hell before anything bad happens.

And, Longwalkhome, I truly mean no disrespect for your views.

Elite rob the treasury and ruin our system and it puts folks on our streets. The great depression is going to look like the state fair compared to what's comming. Buy good shoes now.

 

[Barone20]

Wow, I can't believe I read this whole thread. Great content. I find myself lucky I only have to commute to and from this dump for work, and still have been looking to move. If I had to put up with them on a full time basis I would most definitely have already been long gone. Don't know how you do it!!

 

[VanceInWA]

Wow, I can't believe I read this whole thread. Great content. I find myself lucky I only have to commute to and from this dump for work, and still have been looking to move. If I had to put up with them on a full time basis I would most definitely have already been long gone. Don't know how you do it!!

I hear ya. Honestly, why anyone would live in Portland anymore is beyond my comprehension. It's more than a dump, it's a cesspool. People have the freedom to live where they want in this country, nobody is forcing them to stay there, so the only reasonable conclusion is people who stay in Portland actually like living in a cesspool. Otherwise they would leave, regardless how disruptive that may be. And if they continue to live in that cesspool with children then shame on them. Raising children in Portland is borderline child abuse.

Fortunately, I got out of that hellish excuse for a city and am so very, very glad I did. Sure, it was a hassle to move and the resulting commute sucks, but the upsides are 100% worth it, especially for the kids. That said, no place on the West Coast is truly free anymore, so now we're looking at Idaho.