Portland, OR panhandler goes berserk

Portland is full of so many disgusting crackheads. I have never seen so many people openly tweaking their balls off in a 5 block walk before.

Their homeless are incredibly belligerent too. If you don’t give them money they’ll cuss you out. It’s not like Chicago where they’ll still say “God bless you” or something.

So this chick doesn’t surprise me one bit.

R1 is absolutely correct. I was born in Portland and have lived here most of my life, save a couple years in grad school on the east coast. The homeless population here tends to be confrontational and unhinged. I have stories you wouldn't even believe. It's gotten worse and worse in the last decade as people have flocked here and rent has spiked.

She needs to have her panhandling earnings garnished until the damage is paid for.

It's Portlandia. She was breaking the windows because they were too reminiscent of Trump's border wall.

The woman is mentally ill. Why are there so many mentally ill people living on the streets in this country?

Didn't the repukes say we don't have a gun problem, we have a problem with the mentally ill? They're not doing anything about that, either.

This country is fucked. One of the wealthiest in the world and there are mentally ill living in dreadful conditions. For shame.

Ugh, she has three children.

I’ve lived here in Portland for many years, however recently moved back after living elsewhere for five years.

The homeless population has exploded in even the past five years. It is shocking. A shit hole.

She just needed a doll - -

Sparkle, Neely, sparkle!

I work in downtown Portland, and it is a shit hole. Junkies passed out on the street, with a syringe besides them. Human turds everywhere. Belligerent tweakers everywhere. The Portland city government is useless, concerned about “optics”. The police force is vastly understaffed . I’m moving my office out of downtown Portland as soon as my lease is up.

[quote] I have stories you wouldn't even believe.

Try me.

They drummed you out of Seattle, so you come crawling back to Portland. But Portland doesn't go for booze and dope.

[quote]Neely pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree criminal mischief.

Criminal mischief makes it sound like she painted someone's fence pink.

Don't blame her. I'm only surprised there isn't more anger.

Why did she feel entitled to other people's money?

This is why Trump will win again in 2020.

I dunno, if I was homeless I'd be in someplace warmer- like Miami or Honolulu.

Has Ted Casablanca weighed in?

R5, we only have it on her say so that she is mentally ill:

[quote}Neely told jailers that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder. She said she had been using marijuana on a daily basis and methamphetamine on a weekly basis.

Maybe she is, or maybe she is just telling people that hoping for some sympathy. I just wouldn't pull the "we should be compassionate" card because we don't know anything about her.

Alright R10, here are a few off the top of my head.

1. When I was in high school, I was with my best friend on the MAX (light rail system in Portland). We were around 17, and it was the summer. In east Portland, a girl got onto the train and was acting belligerent. It was hard to tell if she was or wasn't homeless, but I'm guessing she was. I could see her making her way down the car, talking nonsense to people. She finally approached me and my friend, and started fondling my friend's hair and calling her "blondie." My friend batted her hand away, and the girl started laughing hysterically. I could tell by looking at her eyes that she was on drugs, possibly a psychedelic. Out of nowhere, I hear the sound of liquid hitting the floor; I look down, and the girl was pissing her pants. She left a pool of urine on the floor before running off the train at the next stop, laughing.

2. I went to a concert one night (this was around 2014) with my brother and his girlfriend at the Crystal Ballroom. After, we drove to the east side and my brother wanted to stop at a convenience store, so I pulled into a Plaid Pantry (NW equivalent of 7-11). There were two 40-something ex-skater homeless burnouts sitting on the sidewalk in front of the parking space with their skateboards, and because it was dark, you couldn't really see them. As we got out of the car, they shot up and began screaming irrationally, claiming that I tried to run them over—which wouldn't have happened, as they were on the sidewalk and separated from the car by a parking block. They followed us into the store and started threatening my brother and I, while his girlfriend sat in the locked car. They screamed at the clerk not to help us because we "tried to kill them," and the clerk threw them out of the store. When we finished making our purchases, we were confronted again outside, and the shorter of the two threatened to stab us to death and slash our tires. My brother and I are both large guys—he's 6'5" and 6'2"—and we both were prepared to get into a fight, but I was hesitant in case either of them actually did have a knife (which would not have surprised me). The two scumbags continued to scream while we got into the car, and I aggressively pulled out of the parking lot and left.

3. When I was an undergrad and working downtown, I used to take the MAX late at night on the way home on weeknights. It was a Friday and it was around Christmastime, so there were a lot of people out. I was sitting on the train minding my business, listening to music; in front of me was an elderly man who was very well-dressed and appeared to be wealthy. He had some luggage with him, and was ostensibly on his way to the airport. A stop or so before the Pioneer Place mall, a crazed homeless woman (who actually looked more like a man) stumbled onto the train, darting her head back and forth and walking up and down the car repeatedly. She had a box of Chinese food in her hand. I saw her walk past me twice, but continued to zone out to my music. Moments later, I watch her stop where the elderly man in front of me is seated. She stood there staring at him for a few seconds, and proceeded to throw her box of chow mein at his face. The box exploded, and noodles went all over him. To my surprise, this old man (who had to be near 80) bolted out of his seat, chased her down the car, and tackled her to the ground. She started screaming, and fled the train at the next stop in front of the mall. A woman across from me pressed the emergency button to alert the driver and proceeded to call the cops. We ended up sitting there for 45 minutes while police took his statement, and I remember him saying that he wouldn't have tackled her like that if he'd known she was a woman. He also cut his hand up in the process, and they had to bandage him.

[quote]I went to a concert one night (this was around 2014) with my brother and his girlfriend at the Crystal Ballroom.

I would like to add the important information (in this context) that the Crystal Ballroom is a music venue.

Can’t they just be euthanized?

Now it will be, "Spackle, Neely, spackle."

I love how - for some - "mental illness" is a free license to be a fucking asshole nowadays.

Oh, you throw rocks at people not giving you $5? If ~*only*~! we would get rid of Republicans and fund mental health! Oh, you suffer from anxiety and need to bring your emotional support pitbull into your apartment building? Who are we to judge~!!

Lock 'em up and throw away the key.

People should just carry pepper spray and hit these junkies and beggars in the eyes.

Hopefully, they'll move on and get a job.

[quote]get a job

But how? Would YOU hire these people?

"Boobies, boobies, boobies. Why don't I have any boobies?"

Oh, NEELY NEELY NEELY O'HARA!!!!

Hackl, Neely! Hackl!

[quote] Portland is full of so many disgusting crackheads. I have never seen so many people openly tweaking their balls off in a 5 block walk before.

Come to Denver, hon.

[Quote] Why did she feel entitled to other people's money?

Because the country is run by thieves.

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