Still no contest to watching a guy get a knobber from another guy on Broadway near the old Federal Building about 4:30 AM about 35 years ago. I probably would have rear-ended the car in front of me, if there had been anyone else on the road.
Runner up was about 5 years later near the old PSU Bookstore. I and some of my students were looking out a 3rd-floor window at a business college I worked at. Woman was hysterical, apparently because her boyfriend had dumped her. She shucked her clothes on the sidewalk, leaned over a car, and had him fuck her. He did, for about a minute, then got into his car and drove away, leaving her behind to get dressed.
Between those two events, not much else really surprises me anymore in this city.
Sorry but I may have ya beat. I was crossing the street a few years ago with a couple homeless guys (near SW Yamhill and 3rd area)—one had a cast up to just above his knee. He apparently also had a colostomy bag that was malfunctioning, as he was dropping shit from his shorts INTO the cast. We need Batman.
1. I was driving one of those Ford Aerostar vans. I was working for First Interstate Bank, and had to go to the main post office on Hoyt several times every day to get the mail bags and bring them back to the tower for sorting. My first run was always at 4:00 AM, and it was usually dark, nobody was on the road, and the BBC was on OPB and then Mark & Brian were on KGON.
2. I don't recall what the guy was driving. The students were mostly women at a court reporting school, and they kept looking out the windows at what was going on while they were writing on their stenograph machines. They finally told me what was happening, so I stopped my speedbuilding dictation and walked over and looked. Everyone was like "well, now". We had to test them every day, and we needed to get back to classwork before test time, so I wasn't able to linger at the window.
About a decade back in SE when I worked at the courtesy ford some lady who looked about as twacked as you would expect ran into the shop and started screaming incomprehensibly about needing help and we all tried to get her to chill out and tell us what was happening and instead she kept babbling, ran out of the shop like a madwoman and went straight for the four way intersection there. We watched her from the bay door and she stood on the corner screaming until some guy in a charger was unfortunate enough to stop at the light with his passenger window down. She lept in and the dude took off with this woman half dangling out of his passenger window. No idea what that was about to this day.
Wow. Sad story but wild, I was in an ace cash advance on MLk (please I know) and the lady behind the window and to emergency lock the door. This woman was shooting uo directly in front of us in car, (completely naked) took a shit, was screaming and banging in the window, then started to masterbate and walked into the street 😮💨
I’ve never seen a single person say anyone is a paycheck away from severe mental illness.
We are all some number of paychecks/assets away from *homelessness*. Severe & dangerous mental illness is also a cause of homelessness, but it’s not the only cause or the main cause.
We should also remind them that homelessness and the trauma experienced while out there actually *causes* mental illness in many. Sometimes, that's through the use of drugs to cope, and sometimes it's just from years of unchecked depression and anxiety. Trust me, many of those currently homeless people would have been posting here laughing, maybe mocking, maybe angry at homeless people, whatever-- it doesn't matter now, they are the targets.
Count your blessings you are not among them-- yet.
I have never heard a single person say that we are all one paycheck away from performing gymnastics to wash our asses in public water fountains. Seems like you might be the one who isn't grounded in reality.
Oh man, I guess if you’ve never heard it, it definitely never happens. I was obviously speaking hyperbolically. “We’re all just one missed paycheck/hospital bill/unexpected expense away from homelessness” is a virtue signal I hear all the time, but go off haha
I think it’s nice that so many people here tried to teach you empathy skills but your post history suggests that it’s a lost cause. I’ll be praying for those put in your care tonight. 🤷♀️
Fun fact: they where donated to the city by timber magnate and ardent teetotaler, Simon Benson. His idea was that if we provided drinking fountains, people would drink water rather than whiskey if they where thirsty. Silly Simon, people don’t drink whiskey because they are thirsty.
The “toilet paper stuck in the ass” sight is one of Portland’s most popular attractions. It’s up there with the “guy smoking fentanyl next to you” experience.
Ok but like if you say that with no other context, and I asked “Choose the city where that took place: Birmingham, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angles, Louisville, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Milwaukee, Portland, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington DC” you’d have no idea. That s**t happens in like every big city.
I can think of a couple spots in NoPo where it would not surprise me.
Not really related, but there was a guy spreading ketchup in the bike lane where Marine Dr and MLK meet this morning.
Crazy to me that people don’t believe this…this was my last experience seeing this type of thing, not my first. There have been several others. I think people saying this doesn’t happen are people who don’t want to accept reality of where they live.
Guy has an episode in a Walmart parking lot. Started stripping his clothes off, shouting something (can't recall), and taking swings at people in the parking lot except he seemed to not realize he was 20+ feet from the nearest person since people aren't stupid.
Completely spaced out on something (fentanyl maybe), they stood like they were going to cross a crosswalk but just kept crouching then standing like a videogame character with a completely dead look inside. I'm really not able to describe just how surreal it was.
Guy was walking towards me then said something so deranged my brain couldn't process it, then proceeded to have an argument with a lamppost. Then the lamppost said something funny and he continued on to chat up a brick wall at which point I thought it best to be somewhere else.
People walking around naked isn't weirder but us common enough it should get a mention.
Now this story doesn't count because it was in Seattle, but it's too insane to leave out:
My brother and I were walking back to our hotel in the afternoon on a busy street. We came up to an intersection and waited to cross. There was a panhandler there but he was mostly ignoring us.
Then we heard sirens. A firetruck was trying to come down the road we were trying to cross, but it couldn't be cause despite the light changing to red the traffic in *all six lanes* kept going anyway, something like ten cars in each lane went through apparently oblivious to the red light and the *giant red firetruck with sirens and flashing lights*.
My brother and I were totally stunned, the panhandler not so much. He jumped out in front of the next car and yelled "stop!" loud enough to be heard over the even the sirens. The car about to go through the intersection slams on it's breaks; a bright red convertible with the most frat-tech bro I've ever seen. Gel spiked hair, sunglasses, black name brand polo shirt, the guy looked like a walking stereotype.
It was like the panhandler had broken some sort of spell, all the traffic stopped. "What!?" Bleated the bewildered bro. I wish I could give you my impression of that in person, it was the most "shocked back to reality" I've ever seen a living creature. As the fire truck started to go the panhandler started chewing out the tech-bro.
The crosswalk light changed and my brother and I didn't even discuss what we'd seen until we the next day.
Great descriptions, thanks. This sounds exactly like Seattle traffic, they don't fucking stop for no one, apparently even firetrucks. Amazing.
Thanks for recounting these, I know they aren't inherently joyful moments but the retelling brought me joy.
I travel a lot and people always tell me its the same in every large city - No F'ing way. PDX, SEA and SF are leaps and bounds beyond the rest in everyday debauchery and disgusting acts. I am 100% certain PDX leads the nation per capita feces piles and used needles decorating the streets and alleys. The US only though - Mexico city will say "hold my beer to PDX"...
Welcome to the “I saw a person deuce outside in public in Portland” club.
Sadly there are other clubs. Like “I saw someone smoke crack.” “I saw someone shoot up” “I saw someone after they got shot drag their bike to a building pleading for someone to call the police. “I saw a prostitute sell herself.” “I saw a homeless lady flickin the bean.” And the good old “I saw another dead guy”
I’m a native and felt heart broken seeing all that crap long enough that I bailed.
I hear now that elections are coming they are cleaning up the city. So there is that. When the citizens are truly done and want change they will get it they just have to vote for it. No one wants to actually do what it it’s going to take so the city will continue to stay waiting until the people finally say enough is enough.
That decriminalize the drugs thing that everyone voted for was absolutely devoid of any brain function. Too much good weed at everyone’s finger tips I guess.
Hi, I'd like a Defecation Breakdown burger please and a Roadside
Barrel Fire-Roasted Turkey sandwich. Oh, and a pint of Get Hammered and Give Tent Head to Ruby please.
I’m up to 7 dead guys in the last 15months. The most recent was in the process of his buddy stealing all his shit as I walked around the corner. Told them to move along as they were on private property. One got up and jetted, the other just lay there, very, very still. I went back and poked him with a club i was carrying(I work in Old Town), and he didn’t move, so yet another waste of resources as we called 911. No, i don’t carry Narcan. Nope, i’m not going to carry narcan. Nearly get stabbed by an angry junkie for ruining their high 1 time was enough for me. Walked around the other side of the property and there was a chick screaming and flipping her titties at everyone. Also, was a giant pile of almost cartoon perfect spiraled shit right in the middle of the sidewalk.
RIP to the homies long gone in the streets. Sorry you have had to see all that. It sucks. I have done what I can to serve the homeless population in Portland and Vancouver. Approx 2017 2018 I noticed things were seemingly getting more real on the streets. Homeless crowd getting more disturbing and seeing more and more crazy. By 2021 I almost had to defend myself in a more serious way and it was eye opening. I realized around that time Portland ain’t coming back until everyone in power gets fired and a new regime that truly wants to change it all hits the guard. PNW is one of the most beautiful places in the world. But we lost our way in the social department. I wish you all well! Stay safe out there and help who you can.
Here’s the bad news. The brain geniuses voted in a new government structure that triples the number of “leaders” who can therefore much easily finger point and dissemble any responsibility for fixing the problems. It will get worse before it gets better
Decriminalization without also massively upping your addiction support services results in what Portland is. The areas that have been successful in decriminalizing drugs have also spent a lot of money of addressing the issues that come with drugs use. You need treatment and harm reduction programs. See Portugal.
Forgot exactly where it was but I think it was about NE Fremont or NE Prescott area. I've driven there a couple of times in broad daylight, and on 82nd near those streets you'll see blatant girls in short skirts, very little clothing, colorful bags / high heels just advertising themselves to any John that feels like entertaining them.
It's just out in the open. Not sure how long that's been going on since I dont really drive that far up 82nd often, and with these two times I did it to get to the airport instead of taking the freeway.
Yea, that part is not new. My neighbor grew up being trafficked in every motel on 82nd. Portland has been a hotbed of trafficking and (relatedly) prostitution for a long time.
Me!!! I am the person who wrote this post originally! I didn’t post it here, but yeah it really happened and I’m sorry for being the Chad that didn’t help him wipe his ass! Ugh, am I horrible person for it?!?!
🎯. On another post about the recriminalization of hard drugs, almost all of the comments are basically saying they don’t want the issues addressed, don’t reverse Measure 110. They assume all of the addicts on our streets want treatment, so the answer is “more treatment centers”. Another widely held belief is that the people on the streets like the one described by OP, aren’t in active addiction at all but are simply our “poorest of the poor”. You actually have to go out of your way to stay this ignorant.
Maybe they do think all of these people want treatment. But it appears to be true that Portland rolled out decriminalization without doing all the necessary work. They removed the prohibition but didn’t put in enough support programs that other places have where decriminalization is successful. This latter part is extensive and expensive but seems necessary if any of this is going to work.
So it may be better to not stop the decriminalization but add/enhance the support services.
To me drug use is clearly a medical and public health issue and should be approached as such. I would say secondary is that it is exacerbated by a class issue. How many can’t afford to live here? Yes, there should also be consequences for criminal acts but we’ve tried the punitive approach as the first step (making this a criminal issue not medical) and that doesn’t work either.
Hilarious but sad. Unfortunately, as a former native, its true. Once I even saw a portable toilet like you'd have for car camping - sitting on the side of the street. My first thought was - it is empty or full?
The next day on the way home from work I saw someone sitting on it, taking a shit.
Yeah, its full.
My son lives in Portland due to his career.
Portland is DISGUSTING. His dad and I visit from Boise and drive around with our mouths hanging open in shock. We had to leave our hotel early last trip as the homeless screaming all night kept us awake. It’s honestly unbelievable.
No shit. Boise, Idaho -blink and you miss it big city of a state that is the poster child for sensibility and compassion, bussing their junkies to Portland to keep their community safe.
According to this article- While people are bussed from other places to Portland and from Portland to other places, Boise is not a major source of bussing. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study
You live in a city that smells like peanut butter dog shit half the year, is covered in flies all summer, and where everyone piles every broken down car they've ever owned in their front yard.
Get an air bnb or something similar in a neighborhood. There is a lot of unclean areas in Portland, but the charm is in its neighborhoods and park. My parents, every girlfriend and friends parents as Well, make the mistake of getting the common (and often more affordable) hotel downtown, by the convention center or the like. Put yourself around residential roads, maybe a few arterials like Hawthorne or glisan, and enjoy moss, trees, old homes, coffee shops, and whatever your into.
Never heard of that happening before in the outskirts city of downtown Portland area for me at all never had any weird experiences like this in your photo of your story on here with this sort of incident happening in my city that I lived in for almost 16 years and never had to see that happen in the city I’ve been living at for over 16+ years
My dog ate human shit last year in SE off Belmont. She had a thing for eating dog poop off the ground and before I could catch her she had it in her mouth and there was toilet paper sticking out of it. I refuse to ever move back to Portland and I cite this as one of, if not the only, reason. I told the vet and they said it was fine and acted like it was kinda normal.
That's nothing. In the early 1980's, I was flying home to Detroit from Atlanta. We made are way to luggage and one of the passangers took a shit at baggage claim. He wasn't homeless nor was he poor.
Don't do drugs, kids! When my nephews (ages 9 and 14) visited last summer, I had the opportunity to give them a lesson about the dangers of IV drug use outside Ground Kontrol. There was an addict couple washing their track marks/ wounds in a Benson Bubbler. The woman's legs were absolutely mangled from shooting up. My nephews said they would never forget the sight. And just yesterday, I drove past a trio smoking fentanyl at a bus stop on SE Belmont quickly followed by a man taking a dump with his pants down around his knees alongside the Lone Fir Cemetery on SE Morrison.
It was the random day time shootings at a park with a playground that made me leave Portland and never go back. You have to be delusional to get by.
I do want to share we drove through and skipped Portland last year but at every rest area there were hundreds of folks living there, in cars and out, high or not, and a lot of peoples dogs running into the freeway, some getting killed and some not.
I’ve lived here for 12 years. East of 205. Ridden the MAX, returned cans to the bottle drop on 122nd. I have never seen anyone poop. Where do you people go to see this daily?
I’m guessing just about anywhere, I had out of town guests and we were visiting the alphabet district driving up 23rd. Transient dude had on a poncho with no pants; lifted poncho, squatted, dumped in the street. Guests got the full penis, pooping, Portland experience.
I don’t get downtown much and I think it’s more an every other trip event. Maybe I’m lucky? You’d need more work to really track, but it definitely was a greeting for everyone doing the Shamrock run as they make their way to the start area.
MAXX - Gateway transfer station. last time (about 2 months ago) my 15 year old son, my wife and I saw a guy peeing in the middle of the road, and not hiding it - it was maybe 4:00 PM. there was feces near the sewer grate also. go into any stairwell at a parking building downtown before they pressure wash them in the morning - the smell of urine and feces is overwhelming. and about a 40% chance you'll see at least pile of poop.
They missed an excellent opportunity for education, like a serious teaching moment. When I was a kid, my dad would take me all over the city and we’d drive around admiring the unique neighborhoods and scenery. It would be times we would drive through tougher neighborhoods, the run down tire yards by the old stadium and the shuttered pawn shops with barred windows and sheet metal shutters, with hobos crowded around burning barrels; my dad would say, “Look around, you don’t want to live here.” And he was right.
Sometimes we’d be downtown by the porno theatres and single-occupancy hotels. And one day as we drove by towards the museum, my father pointed out clear-as-day, “Kids!” He boomed. “See that guy over there? The one with his pants around his ankles, jerkin’ off in the phone booth? Don’t be like that guy. That’s not a good look. It’s not how you want to live no matter how fun it looks.” And he was right. Maybe his most indelible lesson he gave me. One of how not to be, instead who I should be. And you know what? It’s worked so far.
We literally have zero public bathrooms for people to use. They took down the porta potties, and most stores don't even have public bathrooms anymore. Where are they supposed to go? I understand the frustration, I really do. But we need to come up with solutions, something our mayor and city council absolutely refuses to do.
If I’m out and about I have to plan my day around my bladder. As soon as I have to go, I’m going home. If there were more public restrooms I’d be able to stay places longer without worrying about pissing my pants on the way home.
Yep, it's not like my bowels and tiny bladder stop working when I leave my home. I sure AF don't want to use the nasty AF portapotty that all the junkies use either, 99% of the time I open a portapotty door, I regret it...piss and shit everywhere, on the floor, walls, overflowing from the toilet itself, and occasionally remnants of mystery powder that I can only assume to be hard drugs of some sort - absolutely disgusting.
I recommend steel sinks and toilets you can just hose them down with disinfectant/water and they aren't worth cash.so people won't rip them out to sell .
But people in a meth indicted psychosis will just destroy stuff for no reason.
I've used some nice, self cleaning public bathrooms in France. I love the idea.
I just believe they'd get destroyed.
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Seattle tried that. Didn't work; junkies used them as shooting galleries and places to have sex.
I dunno, maybe get off drugs, get a job, and get your own home with a bathroom instead of being a worthless piece of shit drug addict that defecates in front of kids and takes advantage of city policies made by braindead out of touch politicians.
I agree with you public restrooms with steel sinks and toilets are needed! I'm sure some of the homeless would use them! But those who are mentally incapable due to drugs or alcohol may not! More public restrooms get my vote!
If the gronks
would quit burning them
down or destroying them within days of them being put out, we would have public restrooms. Portland has tried it, it did not end well.
My husband always jokes that between the awful driving and the “pedestrians”, it’s like the first 20-30 minutes of zombie apocalypse/contagion type movie where everyone is acting nuts but you haven’t quite figured out what’s going on yet. It’s either world war z or a typical Tuesday afternoon in Portland.
I was working on the 8th floor of a building on SW 6th and Washington when a guy across the street at the Smart Park building decided to take a swan dive from the tenth floor. Not quite shitting in the street but it ranks right up there.
It popped up on my feed. I live in Oregon, btw. Just not in PDX. Only visit my family there a couple of times of year. Really mean no disrespect to the city, just putting out there what I have seen.
Yup, see it all the time. Actually, I only witnessed a woman taking a shit on the street while I was walking to my car, but have seen human feces on the sidewalk numerous times. That why my husband and I are moving out to the suburbs. I also got my car broken into twice 😖
I'm convinced this is all of oregon at this point. I live way down south by the Cali border, and things like this are a pretty common occurence. Oregon is going to shit. Literally.
I live in bellingham, frequently visit portland. Ive stepped on human shit right outside my work, seen shit in wild places. Witnessed many bare asses while walking downtown. Seen dudes jacking off in alley ways. Naked crackheads galore. Portland always feels just like home when I visit 🩷
I adhere to the idea it’s all caused by emf radiation and our childish reliance on the internet which aids hysteria.
Think of all the wild events with each generation of Cellular service 2g, 3g, 4G , LTE… etc. When 6G LTE comes out shits gonna hit the fan.
Maybe these drugs affect the myelin sheathing in humans brains making them able to “Hear”, things.
Is Portland even close to going back on the laws it passed to zombify it's city? Or is it doubling down on the madness? What I'm asking is their any hope? I'm in Salem and it's not much better.
I live in Seattle and came down to Portland to shop tax free and house sit for my friend 2 weekends ago. I woke up Sunday morning at her house on ne killingsworth to pajama pants filled with humans shit strewn across the front porch. I thought I was going to vomit multiple times and had to leave immediately. Portlands human shit in public places is on another level…
Driving down baseline in Hillsboro and we witnessed a homeless man with his pants all the way down wagging his dick at oncoming traffic while he was pissing. Would’ve loved to have ran him over.
you say you hate it, but I guess you and your family have never voted anything but 'democrat', have you? You and your family and your peer group have enabled what Portland has become, by enabling and supporting marxism. It took years to get to this situation, and it will take years to restore Portland to sanity.
Its interesting. I've drove gig (lyft/uber) for years and have only seen 1 dude shit on the sidewalk. I've seen plenty of interesting things but this just seem like more "oMg PoRtLaNd Is oN fIrE!!"
I visited once and, walking down Broadway in broad daylight, there was a guy kicking a box of Coors cans across the street and yelling "How many crows are in the sky? AMERICA! AMERICA! AMERICA!". Within thirty feet of him, a woman was pulling everything out of someone's car trunk onto the ground.
On the same hour-long walk, definitely passed human shit on the sidewalk.
Truly seemed like a shithole. I don't get how anyone should consider living the rest of their life there. It doesn't seem like folks there have pride in their city.
I'd like to add that every time I read r/MyFairCity, everyone is always posting pictures with with words on how everyone is all the time shitting in the streets.
I haven’t seen them poop, but it smells like poop… so someone must be pooping somewhere 😂. The worst I’ve seen is people smoking crack in broad daylight with everyone just watching. And the occasional homeless guy hitting on me to boost my ego 😭.
I’ve never seen anyone poo in the streets but I did see a crack head spreading his bare ass to oncoming traffic. He didn’t need to shit he just wanted to show the world his butthole.
Best part of this sub is just how many people here are not from Portland and haven't ever lived in Portland but are from the little meth towns all over Oregon where all these guys come from. Why are you commenting here?
Seriously, your towns are hellholes you have just blocked out to focus on the problems you have sent us.
I have family all around Oregon and PNW and when I go see them, they always want to talk about how bad Portland is, but then when driving around I notice their downtowns are all boarded up, burnt out and there are meth heads on bicycles everywhere, trying to steal everything.
Every-single-town in the whole PNW...
This is absolute bullshit and a copycat of a different post . I’ve lived here 2) years and have never seen this happen . Shut the fuck up you fucking loser
This portland makes me so sad. I miss the old portland. I lived in portland for 18 years and I loved it. Now it is disgusting. Hopefully, it will get better soon.
I had a guy come up to me at a bus stop and go on a huge rant, then halfway through whipped out a crack pipe and ripped it right in my face, didn't blew it at me thankfully. then continued on ranting. I was with a friend, we got on the bus and he followed, then got off at the next stop. It was a bit frightening but honestly I just mostly felt bad for the guy.
Still no contest to watching a guy get a knobber from another guy on Broadway near the old Federal Building about 4:30 AM about 35 years ago. I probably would have rear-ended the car in front of me, if there had been anyone else on the road. Runner up was about 5 years later near the old PSU Bookstore. I and some of my students were looking out a 3rd-floor window at a business college I worked at. Woman was hysterical, apparently because her boyfriend had dumped her. She shucked her clothes on the sidewalk, leaned over a car, and had him fuck her. He did, for about a minute, then got into his car and drove away, leaving her behind to get dressed. Between those two events, not much else really surprises me anymore in this city.
Sorry but I may have ya beat. I was crossing the street a few years ago with a couple homeless guys (near SW Yamhill and 3rd area)—one had a cast up to just above his knee. He apparently also had a colostomy bag that was malfunctioning, as he was dropping shit from his shorts INTO the cast. We need Batman.
I want to laugh, but that is also depressing. Be glad for your health and good fortune.
what kind of car was it?
1. I was driving one of those Ford Aerostar vans. I was working for First Interstate Bank, and had to go to the main post office on Hoyt several times every day to get the mail bags and bring them back to the tower for sorting. My first run was always at 4:00 AM, and it was usually dark, nobody was on the road, and the BBC was on OPB and then Mark & Brian were on KGON. 2. I don't recall what the guy was driving. The students were mostly women at a court reporting school, and they kept looking out the windows at what was going on while they were writing on their stenograph machines. They finally told me what was happening, so I stopped my speedbuilding dictation and walked over and looked. Everyone was like "well, now". We had to test them every day, and we needed to get back to classwork before test time, so I wasn't able to linger at the window.
Thanks! The added details provide so much more content!
Mark and Brian were the shit, and Marty Party
And Bob Ancheta
Jesus 😮 😮 😮
Legend has it, that’s NOT how Jesus was made.
Like the other story is more realistic?
About a decade back in SE when I worked at the courtesy ford some lady who looked about as twacked as you would expect ran into the shop and started screaming incomprehensibly about needing help and we all tried to get her to chill out and tell us what was happening and instead she kept babbling, ran out of the shop like a madwoman and went straight for the four way intersection there. We watched her from the bay door and she stood on the corner screaming until some guy in a charger was unfortunate enough to stop at the light with his passenger window down. She lept in and the dude took off with this woman half dangling out of his passenger window. No idea what that was about to this day.
Wow. Sad story but wild, I was in an ace cash advance on MLk (please I know) and the lady behind the window and to emergency lock the door. This woman was shooting uo directly in front of us in car, (completely naked) took a shit, was screaming and banging in the window, then started to masterbate and walked into the street 😮💨
This is why we have [public](https://youtube.com/shorts/9MV5KGQ7Fbk?si=PDM_QPB0uLx942ym) bidets!
I. Am. Horrified.
I mean, we've all been there.
Yeah, we’re all just one missed paycheck from this according to many, definitely grounded in reality, folks.
I’ve never seen a single person say anyone is a paycheck away from severe mental illness. We are all some number of paychecks/assets away from *homelessness*. Severe & dangerous mental illness is also a cause of homelessness, but it’s not the only cause or the main cause.
We should also remind them that homelessness and the trauma experienced while out there actually *causes* mental illness in many. Sometimes, that's through the use of drugs to cope, and sometimes it's just from years of unchecked depression and anxiety. Trust me, many of those currently homeless people would have been posting here laughing, maybe mocking, maybe angry at homeless people, whatever-- it doesn't matter now, they are the targets. Count your blessings you are not among them-- yet.
I'll also add this "One chronic painful injury and refused pain-meds-refill away from losing your livelihood due to fentanyl-induced mental illness"
Yep, and one Alzheimers or psychotic break away from being that person who’s acting deranged in public
Sorry, I'm not one paycheck from poopin the street. Speak for yourself!
Exactly! You can poop on the street right now! Paychecks or otherwise!
I have never heard a single person say that we are all one paycheck away from performing gymnastics to wash our asses in public water fountains. Seems like you might be the one who isn't grounded in reality.
Oh man, I guess if you’ve never heard it, it definitely never happens. I was obviously speaking hyperbolically. “We’re all just one missed paycheck/hospital bill/unexpected expense away from homelessness” is a virtue signal I hear all the time, but go off haha
I think it’s nice that so many people here tried to teach you empathy skills but your post history suggests that it’s a lost cause. I’ll be praying for those put in your care tonight. 🤷♀️
Those are water fountains… or were, water fountains.
Fun fact: they where donated to the city by timber magnate and ardent teetotaler, Simon Benson. His idea was that if we provided drinking fountains, people would drink water rather than whiskey if they where thirsty. Silly Simon, people don’t drink whiskey because they are thirsty.
But still it was a nice thing to do, even if he was a bit naive, his heart was in the right place 🥹
The “toilet paper stuck in the ass” sight is one of Portland’s most popular attractions. It’s up there with the “guy smoking fentanyl next to you” experience.
I think you mean boofing fentanyl
Is that on the Portland CityPASS now?
Ahh yes the guy smoking fentanyl caused quite the scene on a school bus filled with children outside the children's theater a couple months ago. 🤦♀️
Probably opening doors and touching stuff with his poopy hands.
His family lives in Old Town or something?
Numerous locations on the eastside would facilitate the posted experience.
Saw a lady piss on the wall of Alberta Street grocery store yesterday then pull up her pants and hit the crack pipe so can confirm, unfortunately.
Ok but like if you say that with no other context, and I asked “Choose the city where that took place: Birmingham, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angles, Louisville, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Milwaukee, Portland, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington DC” you’d have no idea. That s**t happens in like every big city.
I can think of a couple spots in NoPo where it would not surprise me. Not really related, but there was a guy spreading ketchup in the bike lane where Marine Dr and MLK meet this morning.
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I think he is ketchupless now too.
Not around me, but I guess that’s true. Every visit?
Happened to me recently in a lovely church ground in leafy SE. dog realized it had some competition
Crazy to me that people don’t believe this…this was my last experience seeing this type of thing, not my first. There have been several others. I think people saying this doesn’t happen are people who don’t want to accept reality of where they live.
This isn't even a wild story. I've seen way wilder in Salem.
Ooh, please share.
Guy has an episode in a Walmart parking lot. Started stripping his clothes off, shouting something (can't recall), and taking swings at people in the parking lot except he seemed to not realize he was 20+ feet from the nearest person since people aren't stupid. Completely spaced out on something (fentanyl maybe), they stood like they were going to cross a crosswalk but just kept crouching then standing like a videogame character with a completely dead look inside. I'm really not able to describe just how surreal it was. Guy was walking towards me then said something so deranged my brain couldn't process it, then proceeded to have an argument with a lamppost. Then the lamppost said something funny and he continued on to chat up a brick wall at which point I thought it best to be somewhere else. People walking around naked isn't weirder but us common enough it should get a mention. Now this story doesn't count because it was in Seattle, but it's too insane to leave out: My brother and I were walking back to our hotel in the afternoon on a busy street. We came up to an intersection and waited to cross. There was a panhandler there but he was mostly ignoring us. Then we heard sirens. A firetruck was trying to come down the road we were trying to cross, but it couldn't be cause despite the light changing to red the traffic in *all six lanes* kept going anyway, something like ten cars in each lane went through apparently oblivious to the red light and the *giant red firetruck with sirens and flashing lights*. My brother and I were totally stunned, the panhandler not so much. He jumped out in front of the next car and yelled "stop!" loud enough to be heard over the even the sirens. The car about to go through the intersection slams on it's breaks; a bright red convertible with the most frat-tech bro I've ever seen. Gel spiked hair, sunglasses, black name brand polo shirt, the guy looked like a walking stereotype. It was like the panhandler had broken some sort of spell, all the traffic stopped. "What!?" Bleated the bewildered bro. I wish I could give you my impression of that in person, it was the most "shocked back to reality" I've ever seen a living creature. As the fire truck started to go the panhandler started chewing out the tech-bro. The crosswalk light changed and my brother and I didn't even discuss what we'd seen until we the next day.
hats off to that guy, very brave
Great descriptions, thanks. This sounds exactly like Seattle traffic, they don't fucking stop for no one, apparently even firetrucks. Amazing. Thanks for recounting these, I know they aren't inherently joyful moments but the retelling brought me joy.
I travel a lot and people always tell me its the same in every large city - No F'ing way. PDX, SEA and SF are leaps and bounds beyond the rest in everyday debauchery and disgusting acts. I am 100% certain PDX leads the nation per capita feces piles and used needles decorating the streets and alleys. The US only though - Mexico city will say "hold my beer to PDX"...
Welcome to the “I saw a person deuce outside in public in Portland” club. Sadly there are other clubs. Like “I saw someone smoke crack.” “I saw someone shoot up” “I saw someone after they got shot drag their bike to a building pleading for someone to call the police. “I saw a prostitute sell herself.” “I saw a homeless lady flickin the bean.” And the good old “I saw another dead guy” I’m a native and felt heart broken seeing all that crap long enough that I bailed. I hear now that elections are coming they are cleaning up the city. So there is that. When the citizens are truly done and want change they will get it they just have to vote for it. No one wants to actually do what it it’s going to take so the city will continue to stay waiting until the people finally say enough is enough. That decriminalize the drugs thing that everyone voted for was absolutely devoid of any brain function. Too much good weed at everyone’s finger tips I guess.
I suddenly have an idea for a new McMenamin's passport.
Hi, I'd like a Defecation Breakdown burger please and a Roadside Barrel Fire-Roasted Turkey sandwich. Oh, and a pint of Get Hammered and Give Tent Head to Ruby please.
I’m up to 7 dead guys in the last 15months. The most recent was in the process of his buddy stealing all his shit as I walked around the corner. Told them to move along as they were on private property. One got up and jetted, the other just lay there, very, very still. I went back and poked him with a club i was carrying(I work in Old Town), and he didn’t move, so yet another waste of resources as we called 911. No, i don’t carry Narcan. Nope, i’m not going to carry narcan. Nearly get stabbed by an angry junkie for ruining their high 1 time was enough for me. Walked around the other side of the property and there was a chick screaming and flipping her titties at everyone. Also, was a giant pile of almost cartoon perfect spiraled shit right in the middle of the sidewalk.
RIP to the homies long gone in the streets. Sorry you have had to see all that. It sucks. I have done what I can to serve the homeless population in Portland and Vancouver. Approx 2017 2018 I noticed things were seemingly getting more real on the streets. Homeless crowd getting more disturbing and seeing more and more crazy. By 2021 I almost had to defend myself in a more serious way and it was eye opening. I realized around that time Portland ain’t coming back until everyone in power gets fired and a new regime that truly wants to change it all hits the guard. PNW is one of the most beautiful places in the world. But we lost our way in the social department. I wish you all well! Stay safe out there and help who you can.
Here’s the bad news. The brain geniuses voted in a new government structure that triples the number of “leaders” who can therefore much easily finger point and dissemble any responsibility for fixing the problems. It will get worse before it gets better
we should replace the replacement of the White Stag sign with a big neon dookie.
Same people that voted this madness in. Funny part is that anyone with an iq above 60 knew this was mental before it happened.
Decriminalization without also massively upping your addiction support services results in what Portland is. The areas that have been successful in decriminalizing drugs have also spent a lot of money of addressing the issues that come with drugs use. You need treatment and harm reduction programs. See Portugal.
This!!!
Forgot exactly where it was but I think it was about NE Fremont or NE Prescott area. I've driven there a couple of times in broad daylight, and on 82nd near those streets you'll see blatant girls in short skirts, very little clothing, colorful bags / high heels just advertising themselves to any John that feels like entertaining them. It's just out in the open. Not sure how long that's been going on since I dont really drive that far up 82nd often, and with these two times I did it to get to the airport instead of taking the freeway.
Been going on a long while sadly.
There's a "lingerie modeling studio"/jack shack right there. When business is slow (I guess) they go out to market their wares.
Yea, that part is not new. My neighbor grew up being trafficked in every motel on 82nd. Portland has been a hotbed of trafficking and (relatedly) prostitution for a long time.
He needs to potty train his family members.
Haha
Hey OP, did you tell your children "Kids, this is what an asshole looks like, figuratively and literally."
I honestly didn’t know what to say…I was horrified and sad at the same time.
Shigella outbreak among the homeless. (But being caught short can happen to anyone any time.)
trucks with water cannons (mobile bidets) are the obvious answer.
What kind of chud doesn’t help that poor man wipe?!
Me!!! I am the person who wrote this post originally! I didn’t post it here, but yeah it really happened and I’m sorry for being the Chad that didn’t help him wipe his ass! Ugh, am I horrible person for it?!?!
Wiping ass is mutual aid bro
Well, now I know for the next time!
Edit: Chud, not Chad!
some would even say "what's wrong with some fertilizer..."
I have yet to see a public shitter here! I had to visit NYC to see that!
Right? I haven’t seen it either
Legend has it, that TP is still stuck in his ass.
Most of Portland sees nothing wrong here
🎯. On another post about the recriminalization of hard drugs, almost all of the comments are basically saying they don’t want the issues addressed, don’t reverse Measure 110. They assume all of the addicts on our streets want treatment, so the answer is “more treatment centers”. Another widely held belief is that the people on the streets like the one described by OP, aren’t in active addiction at all but are simply our “poorest of the poor”. You actually have to go out of your way to stay this ignorant.
Maybe they do think all of these people want treatment. But it appears to be true that Portland rolled out decriminalization without doing all the necessary work. They removed the prohibition but didn’t put in enough support programs that other places have where decriminalization is successful. This latter part is extensive and expensive but seems necessary if any of this is going to work. So it may be better to not stop the decriminalization but add/enhance the support services. To me drug use is clearly a medical and public health issue and should be approached as such. I would say secondary is that it is exacerbated by a class issue. How many can’t afford to live here? Yes, there should also be consequences for criminal acts but we’ve tried the punitive approach as the first step (making this a criminal issue not medical) and that doesn’t work either.
Come on help him! He could still have toilet paper in his ass TO THIS DAY
Hilarious but sad. Unfortunately, as a former native, its true. Once I even saw a portable toilet like you'd have for car camping - sitting on the side of the street. My first thought was - it is empty or full? The next day on the way home from work I saw someone sitting on it, taking a shit. Yeah, its full.
My son lives in Portland due to his career. Portland is DISGUSTING. His dad and I visit from Boise and drive around with our mouths hanging open in shock. We had to leave our hotel early last trip as the homeless screaming all night kept us awake. It’s honestly unbelievable.
Sorry your visit wasn’t good, maybe if Idaho stopped sending us all their shitbag junkies our streets would be a little cleaner.
No shit. Boise, Idaho -blink and you miss it big city of a state that is the poster child for sensibility and compassion, bussing their junkies to Portland to keep their community safe.
According to this article- While people are bussed from other places to Portland and from Portland to other places, Boise is not a major source of bussing. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study
You live in a city that smells like peanut butter dog shit half the year, is covered in flies all summer, and where everyone piles every broken down car they've ever owned in their front yard.
And no ob/gyns left to deliver babies because of the outlandish state laws.
Get an air bnb or something similar in a neighborhood. There is a lot of unclean areas in Portland, but the charm is in its neighborhoods and park. My parents, every girlfriend and friends parents as Well, make the mistake of getting the common (and often more affordable) hotel downtown, by the convention center or the like. Put yourself around residential roads, maybe a few arterials like Hawthorne or glisan, and enjoy moss, trees, old homes, coffee shops, and whatever your into.
People should avoid downtown and stay on the east side.
So things have changed downtown from that time we took a school tour there in 1997?
i once saw a homeless lady stabbing herself in her privates with sticks. Absolutely mortifying
Jesus 😮
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Never heard of that happening before in the outskirts city of downtown Portland area for me at all never had any weird experiences like this in your photo of your story on here with this sort of incident happening in my city that I lived in for almost 16 years and never had to see that happen in the city I’ve been living at for over 16+ years
It happened, I promise. Sellwood area.
😂
I’ve seen two in San Diego but non here yet 🤷♂️
SNL was a disappointment tonight. These comments are much better.
So safe to assume he's not coming back, right? Right?
Have lived here for a while and never seen that, pretty sad and rare. Have seen plenty of people pissing in the street though LOL
Seems like every of big city in America...
My dog ate human shit last year in SE off Belmont. She had a thing for eating dog poop off the ground and before I could catch her she had it in her mouth and there was toilet paper sticking out of it. I refuse to ever move back to Portland and I cite this as one of, if not the only, reason. I told the vet and they said it was fine and acted like it was kinda normal.
Some say he’s still walking around with that TP up inside his asshole.
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Anyone remember the homeless guy with the headless doll? Apparently he got up to lots of weirdness in the old days on Burnside....
Yep that's why I'm leaving
Don't go.
I get that our streets are literally shitty, however I work in Old Town daily and I’ve never seen anyone actively shitting. 😂
That's nothing. In the early 1980's, I was flying home to Detroit from Atlanta. We made are way to luggage and one of the passangers took a shit at baggage claim. He wasn't homeless nor was he poor.
I have literally never seen anyone shit in the streets here
Don't do drugs, kids! When my nephews (ages 9 and 14) visited last summer, I had the opportunity to give them a lesson about the dangers of IV drug use outside Ground Kontrol. There was an addict couple washing their track marks/ wounds in a Benson Bubbler. The woman's legs were absolutely mangled from shooting up. My nephews said they would never forget the sight. And just yesterday, I drove past a trio smoking fentanyl at a bus stop on SE Belmont quickly followed by a man taking a dump with his pants down around his knees alongside the Lone Fir Cemetery on SE Morrison.
Why do you not look him in the eyes? You devil. Homeless people are people too. You should not be afraid of looking directly at them.
It was the random day time shootings at a park with a playground that made me leave Portland and never go back. You have to be delusional to get by. I do want to share we drove through and skipped Portland last year but at every rest area there were hundreds of folks living there, in cars and out, high or not, and a lot of peoples dogs running into the freeway, some getting killed and some not.
I’ve lived here for 12 years. East of 205. Ridden the MAX, returned cans to the bottle drop on 122nd. I have never seen anyone poop. Where do you people go to see this daily?
I’m guessing just about anywhere, I had out of town guests and we were visiting the alphabet district driving up 23rd. Transient dude had on a poncho with no pants; lifted poncho, squatted, dumped in the street. Guests got the full penis, pooping, Portland experience.
I don’t get downtown much and I think it’s more an every other trip event. Maybe I’m lucky? You’d need more work to really track, but it definitely was a greeting for everyone doing the Shamrock run as they make their way to the start area.
I saw it behind Thai Bloom downtown at around 1pm last year
I saw a guy shit in a bag on the Max when I lived there 15 years ago, but honestly that was the only experience and I worked down around Kell's.
I saw it three times living on the South Park blocks for 1.5 years
Saw this where they have the Saturday market downtown.
MAXX - Gateway transfer station. last time (about 2 months ago) my 15 year old son, my wife and I saw a guy peeing in the middle of the road, and not hiding it - it was maybe 4:00 PM. there was feces near the sewer grate also. go into any stairwell at a parking building downtown before they pressure wash them in the morning - the smell of urine and feces is overwhelming. and about a 40% chance you'll see at least pile of poop.
But thank goodness they didn’t see any Republicans!! Imagine the trauma!
They missed an excellent opportunity for education, like a serious teaching moment. When I was a kid, my dad would take me all over the city and we’d drive around admiring the unique neighborhoods and scenery. It would be times we would drive through tougher neighborhoods, the run down tire yards by the old stadium and the shuttered pawn shops with barred windows and sheet metal shutters, with hobos crowded around burning barrels; my dad would say, “Look around, you don’t want to live here.” And he was right. Sometimes we’d be downtown by the porno theatres and single-occupancy hotels. And one day as we drove by towards the museum, my father pointed out clear-as-day, “Kids!” He boomed. “See that guy over there? The one with his pants around his ankles, jerkin’ off in the phone booth? Don’t be like that guy. That’s not a good look. It’s not how you want to live no matter how fun it looks.” And he was right. Maybe his most indelible lesson he gave me. One of how not to be, instead who I should be. And you know what? It’s worked so far.
We literally have zero public bathrooms for people to use. They took down the porta potties, and most stores don't even have public bathrooms anymore. Where are they supposed to go? I understand the frustration, I really do. But we need to come up with solutions, something our mayor and city council absolutely refuses to do.
Even as someone who has a home, the lack of public restrooms is a huge problem.
Exactly! I have a tiny lil bladder, and I would like to have the option to pee somewhere other than home.
If I’m out and about I have to plan my day around my bladder. As soon as I have to go, I’m going home. If there were more public restrooms I’d be able to stay places longer without worrying about pissing my pants on the way home.
So when you have to pee do you squat on the sidewalk in front of kids and do it?
I also hate this. Makes it much less convenient to bike around the city unless you're going directly to businesses.
Yep, it's not like my bowels and tiny bladder stop working when I leave my home. I sure AF don't want to use the nasty AF portapotty that all the junkies use either, 99% of the time I open a portapotty door, I regret it...piss and shit everywhere, on the floor, walls, overflowing from the toilet itself, and occasionally remnants of mystery powder that I can only assume to be hard drugs of some sort - absolutely disgusting.
because they have all been trashed multiple times.
I recommend steel sinks and toilets you can just hose them down with disinfectant/water and they aren't worth cash.so people won't rip them out to sell .
But people in a meth indicted psychosis will just destroy stuff for no reason. I've used some nice, self cleaning public bathrooms in France. I love the idea. I just believe they'd get destroyed.
> I've used some nice, self cleaning public bathrooms in France. I love the idea. > > Seattle tried that. Didn't work; junkies used them as shooting galleries and places to have sex.
I dunno, maybe get off drugs, get a job, and get your own home with a bathroom instead of being a worthless piece of shit drug addict that defecates in front of kids and takes advantage of city policies made by braindead out of touch politicians.
Could they not shit in the street?
I agree with you public restrooms with steel sinks and toilets are needed! I'm sure some of the homeless would use them! But those who are mentally incapable due to drugs or alcohol may not! More public restrooms get my vote!
If the gronks would quit burning them down or destroying them within days of them being put out, we would have public restrooms. Portland has tried it, it did not end well.
Wait till you see the riots after Trump wins lol
Doing his part to keep Portland weird.
My husband always jokes that between the awful driving and the “pedestrians”, it’s like the first 20-30 minutes of zombie apocalypse/contagion type movie where everyone is acting nuts but you haven’t quite figured out what’s going on yet. It’s either world war z or a typical Tuesday afternoon in Portland.
Vote Democrat, literally any Democrat, this is what you get.
good
I was working on the 8th floor of a building on SW 6th and Washington when a guy across the street at the Smart Park building decided to take a swan dive from the tenth floor. Not quite shitting in the street but it ranks right up there.
I saw this same thing happen here in Seattle last summer. (Des Moines to be exact, right on Hwy 99).
It popped up on my feed. I live in Oregon, btw. Just not in PDX. Only visit my family there a couple of times of year. Really mean no disrespect to the city, just putting out there what I have seen.
Yup, see it all the time. Actually, I only witnessed a woman taking a shit on the street while I was walking to my car, but have seen human feces on the sidewalk numerous times. That why my husband and I are moving out to the suburbs. I also got my car broken into twice 😖
Me and all my homies hate Portland
I'm convinced this is all of oregon at this point. I live way down south by the Cali border, and things like this are a pretty common occurence. Oregon is going to shit. Literally.
I live in bellingham, frequently visit portland. Ive stepped on human shit right outside my work, seen shit in wild places. Witnessed many bare asses while walking downtown. Seen dudes jacking off in alley ways. Naked crackheads galore. Portland always feels just like home when I visit 🩷
I adhere to the idea it’s all caused by emf radiation and our childish reliance on the internet which aids hysteria. Think of all the wild events with each generation of Cellular service 2g, 3g, 4G , LTE… etc. When 6G LTE comes out shits gonna hit the fan. Maybe these drugs affect the myelin sheathing in humans brains making them able to “Hear”, things.
Except zombies don't have to clear their digestive systems so this is really just a guy who isn't living in reality.
Is Portland even close to going back on the laws it passed to zombify it's city? Or is it doubling down on the madness? What I'm asking is their any hope? I'm in Salem and it's not much better.
I live in Seattle and came down to Portland to shop tax free and house sit for my friend 2 weekends ago. I woke up Sunday morning at her house on ne killingsworth to pajama pants filled with humans shit strewn across the front porch. I thought I was going to vomit multiple times and had to leave immediately. Portlands human shit in public places is on another level…
Last time i was in portland i too almost stepped in human shit luckily my friend saved me
Driving down baseline in Hillsboro and we witnessed a homeless man with his pants all the way down wagging his dick at oncoming traffic while he was pissing. Would’ve loved to have ran him over.
Guess you missed the homeless lady dildoing herself on interstate. Still here, hoping for better.
Grandma would have taken a broom to these people and ran them off....
you say you hate it, but I guess you and your family have never voted anything but 'democrat', have you? You and your family and your peer group have enabled what Portland has become, by enabling and supporting marxism. It took years to get to this situation, and it will take years to restore Portland to sanity.
FAFO.
Sounds like Saturday night in ATL on MLK
I’ve never seen anyone shitting in the street in Portland or the surrounding areas. Sounds like bs.
It’s called atmosphere you yuppie scumbags, yall used to have to pay extra for that.
Yes, I’m so glad I live in small town Oregon. Portland is about 4 ish hours away and I hate it there lol
Its interesting. I've drove gig (lyft/uber) for years and have only seen 1 dude shit on the sidewalk. I've seen plenty of interesting things but this just seem like more "oMg PoRtLaNd Is oN fIrE!!"
Portland is filled with junkies and confused lesbians with body dysmorphia.
I miss the bum pit
I visited once and, walking down Broadway in broad daylight, there was a guy kicking a box of Coors cans across the street and yelling "How many crows are in the sky? AMERICA! AMERICA! AMERICA!". Within thirty feet of him, a woman was pulling everything out of someone's car trunk onto the ground. On the same hour-long walk, definitely passed human shit on the sidewalk. Truly seemed like a shithole. I don't get how anyone should consider living the rest of their life there. It doesn't seem like folks there have pride in their city.
LOL
I watched someone get shot in Portland
I'd like to add that every time I read r/MyFairCity, everyone is always posting pictures with with words on how everyone is all the time shitting in the streets.
I haven’t seen them poop, but it smells like poop… so someone must be pooping somewhere 😂. The worst I’ve seen is people smoking crack in broad daylight with everyone just watching. And the occasional homeless guy hitting on me to boost my ego 😭.
There is zero critical thinking going on in these comments.
I’ve never seen anyone poo in the streets but I did see a crack head spreading his bare ass to oncoming traffic. He didn’t need to shit he just wanted to show the world his butthole.
Best part of this sub is just how many people here are not from Portland and haven't ever lived in Portland but are from the little meth towns all over Oregon where all these guys come from. Why are you commenting here? Seriously, your towns are hellholes you have just blocked out to focus on the problems you have sent us. I have family all around Oregon and PNW and when I go see them, they always want to talk about how bad Portland is, but then when driving around I notice their downtowns are all boarded up, burnt out and there are meth heads on bicycles everywhere, trying to steal everything. Every-single-town in the whole PNW...
Yeah, years of voting too far left will do that. It's sad, really. Portland used to be really cool and fun.
Then quit visiting....maybe you're the problem
This is absolute bullshit and a copycat of a different post . I’ve lived here 2) years and have never seen this happen . Shut the fuck up you fucking loser
Decrim and find out.
I’ve been homeless in downtown Portland.
Where is the lie
They are clearly just jealous
I mean, Portland is pretty fucked
This portland makes me so sad. I miss the old portland. I lived in portland for 18 years and I loved it. Now it is disgusting. Hopefully, it will get better soon.
I had a guy come up to me at a bus stop and go on a huge rant, then halfway through whipped out a crack pipe and ripped it right in my face, didn't blew it at me thankfully. then continued on ranting. I was with a friend, we got on the bus and he followed, then got off at the next stop. It was a bit frightening but honestly I just mostly felt bad for the guy.
Don’t drive down 82nd with kids. That’s a whole different conversation
In the span of 6 years, Portland went from my favorite city in the world, to my most despised.
How dramatic. Not saying it doesn't happen, but it's hardly unique to the city of Portland, OR. You must be very sheltered
Hahaha, so funny. Don't give up your day job! That's if you have one. Love, Tightass..