Homeless man KATU's been reporting on for months cited for violating camping ordinance

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @marysmith3761
    @marysmith3761 2 месяца назад +27

    He doesn’t want to admit any wrongdoing. He can go on disability if he’s that ill with pain. Getting high is number one. He can’t bring drugs into the shelter. He can do drugs in his own mini house. Absolutely ridiculous!!

    • @vincentrockel1149
      @vincentrockel1149 2 месяца назад +3

      Do you actually know the man, or do you usually jump to conclusions based on your perceptions, not his actual situation?
      I'd mention walking a mile in his shoes... but
      the dude has no legs..
      I wouldn't want to live in a shelter either, and I'm not addicted to any drugs.
      Besides have you dealt with chronic pain? It ain't no picnic.

    • @magazineretriever9036
      @magazineretriever9036 2 месяца назад

      @@vincentrockel1149 It’s a fact that this vagrant man is hooked on illegal drugs AND that he’s not allowed to bring these drugs into a shelter. Obviously, you don’t have a large vagrant encampment in front of your home.

    • @Mil0801
      @Mil0801 2 месяца назад +2

      You are the problem.. enableing these people. Feeling sorry for them. That is not helping them. ​@vincentrockel1149

    • @marysmith3761
      @marysmith3761 Месяц назад

      @@vincentrockel1149 I have lived with severe, chronic pain since my late 20’s. I also have addicts in my family. No one wants to live in a shelter. I was in a battered woman’s shelter for a week through Christmas one year. So I have a glimpse of hardships. However, enabling people only hurts them and stunts their growth.

  • @Scorch1028
    @Scorch1028 2 месяца назад +26

    These people have access to shelters. They choose to camp on public property, and now they’re getting dealt with.

    • @alwaysyouramanda
      @alwaysyouramanda 2 месяца назад +4

      Image how bad those shelters are when they choose the open air and freezing temperatures

    • @kattycat3502
      @kattycat3502 2 месяца назад

      You gulabal if you think this is " Getting Dealt with.🤓. Optics. It's Election year🤣

    • @c0t856
      @c0t856 2 месяца назад +2

      I was CNA for homeless people in a shelter. I feel that we treat them really really good. 😊 we clean them feed them, we used to go beyond. Many have metal issues is hard to deal with them.

  • @redbeard2527
    @redbeard2527 2 месяца назад +13

    I got shot, so I do illegal drugs 😂 Such a crock. Old boy is a professional victim.

    • @magazineretriever9036
      @magazineretriever9036 2 месяца назад

      This dude probably craps & pisses himself every day. This is all the more reason he should either be in a shelter or in jail. He cannot make it to the restroom without a working set of legs. He could get a horrible skin infection from the accumulation of dried feces and urine on his body.

    • @SteveJ-o3o
      @SteveJ-o3o 2 месяца назад +2

      Pdx, is his utopia. Home of the victims.

  • @johnellis3309
    @johnellis3309 2 месяца назад +5

    Yeah you can't cram people all together they get sick.. respiratory thing and there is bad.. I worked at a shelter in downtown the guys were coughing and gagging all the time... A lot of this would disappear if people could get the cost of rent down.. it rent about twice as high as it should be.. and with all the rules and regulations to get into an apartment it's hard for even normal people.

  • @TheAerialgreen
    @TheAerialgreen 2 месяца назад +3

    I drive by there sometimes and just wonder why this particular intersection has become a hub for homelessness, drug use, open drug dealing and homicide. Despite the presence of multiple drug rehab centers nearby, drug dealers seem to operate freely, distributing fentanyl to a large number of individuals. On Friday evenings, it's not uncommon to see about a hundred people using fentanyl openly around the MAX stop. It’s absolutely mind blowing.
    The concentration of homeless services and drug rehab facilities in this neighborhood must have had a detrimental impact on the local community. I heard that the closure of the Safeway grocery store next to Blackburn homeless resource center due to rampant theft has further marginalized residents, leaving them with limited access to essential goods. The MAX station has become extremely unsafe for commuters, deterring locals from using public transportation.
    Why aren't there any police around there? Most other cities would have a lot of police in a place like 122nd and Burnside.

    • @Azazel2024
      @Azazel2024 2 месяца назад

      Portland hates the police. And tried defunding them. That's maybe why

  • @richardkiltz6370
    @richardkiltz6370 2 месяца назад +13

    Health concerns my butt, he won't quit drugs!

    • @Chief_Hammerdown
      @Chief_Hammerdown 2 месяца назад +1

      🎯

    • @magazineretriever9036
      @magazineretriever9036 2 месяца назад +2

      Yeah. This guy _gave himself_ health concerns. Any fool knows what street drugs do to the human body.

    • @OldManMilner
      @OldManMilner 2 месяца назад +3

      @@magazineretriever9036 Do you mean he shot himself in the spine, or he cut off his own legs?

    • @magazineretriever9036
      @magazineretriever9036 2 месяца назад +3

      @@OldManMilner I’m saying that he gave himself health problems by abusing illegal drugs. When you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences. Hard street drugs make any existing medical problem worse.

  • @sonofbukowski
    @sonofbukowski 2 месяца назад +5

    Crock

  • @Will-zd2lj
    @Will-zd2lj 2 месяца назад +4

    Sounds like everyone else but him is the problem.

  • @GeneReynolds-xc6ws
    @GeneReynolds-xc6ws 2 месяца назад +1

    Traveling Circles forever homeless people in America 😢😊

  • @jennjenn2230
    @jennjenn2230 2 месяца назад +4

    Question..why did he get kicked out ofva shelter?
    Why has he been homeless his whole life, like he said?
    I kniw the answers. Bleeding hearts..do you?
    See he said he doesnt do shelters.
    Its poor me. Ffs most of these people are useless leaches.
    Please come for me.
    Ive been homeless, never a junkie have had a full time jobs while also himeless and have multiple heath problems and massive chronic pain.
    As long as idiots keeo making ecvuses for these people they will continue to nit take accountability for their own lives.
    Stoo with the pity parties.

  • @Mil0801
    @Mil0801 2 месяца назад +4

    Don't feel sorry for any of these low life liars. Nobody should have to walk by someone doing drugs.

  • @GeneReynolds-xc6ws
    @GeneReynolds-xc6ws 2 месяца назад +2

    Bunkbed living in a homeless shelter for men in Portland Oregon 😂😂😂

  • @antoniaoliver8268
    @antoniaoliver8268 2 месяца назад +4

    Okay this guy has just given up and is now a complete victim. I get it is hard but come on.

  • @WillyPDX94
    @WillyPDX94 2 месяца назад +9

    He could be in a shelter right now if he wanted. He is his own worst enemy. I have no sympathy for people who refuse help. He's choosing to live this way.

    • @Zakster90
      @Zakster90 2 месяца назад

      Your ignorance speaks volumes, have you ever spent just five minutes in a homeless shelter? You’re clueless,

    • @WillyPDX94
      @WillyPDX94 2 месяца назад +1

      @@FlyFreeS7 You can give it all the fancy names you want, but most of the time it's just plain laziness and stupidity. Laziness on their part. And stupidity on your part for giving them excuses to live in squalor. When will you Woke Warriors realize you're not helping these people, you're just enabling them. Maybe it makes you feel noble and empathetic, but it isn't helping them.

  • @Zakster90
    @Zakster90 2 месяца назад +2

    I just always find it funny when they think they can enforce hundred dollar fines on people who are literally fucking homeless

  • @sonofbukowski
    @sonofbukowski 2 месяца назад +3

    "I've been out here my whole life "?! Do you think he's possibly doing something wrong?

  • @phil4346
    @phil4346 2 месяца назад +1

    Loitering on private property has always been a crime, enforcement is non existent.

  • @2009RipCity
    @2009RipCity 2 месяца назад +21

    This guy is pathetic....Nice alligator tears...if you're in pain like you say, sign up for SSDI. Do something for yourself & quit waiting for someone to do it for you.

    • @alwaysyouramanda
      @alwaysyouramanda 2 месяца назад +4

      You must have lost both of your legs too to be such an expert

    • @Hexmommy79
      @Hexmommy79 2 месяца назад

      well once he has ssid then he gets less than 800 a month so whats he gonna do with it? He cant even rent a room with it. Im pretty sure hes mentally screwed up and drug addicted and cant maintain a home anyway if he had it. He needs serious medical and mental health treatment. There is no other solution. It should become mandatory. If people cant make the decision it should be made for them.

    • @CockSparr
      @CockSparr 2 месяца назад +1

      @@alwaysyouramandashut up

    • @magazineretriever9036
      @magazineretriever9036 2 месяца назад +4

      As McGruff The Crime Dog used to say: "Don't Use Drugs".

  • @kevinhornbuckle
    @kevinhornbuckle 2 месяца назад +3

    Smoking is bed is bad for his stumps.

    • @magazineretriever9036
      @magazineretriever9036 2 месяца назад +3

      Yeah. People who smoke heal more slowly from injuries. When he walks on his leg stumps, he scuffs them up.

  • @SteveJ-o3o
    @SteveJ-o3o 2 месяца назад +1

    Stop calling them unhoused. Call them homeless zombies !

  • @Bruce_Quin
    @Bruce_Quin 2 месяца назад +2

    I’m an able body adult and have applied to every place with a sign saying they’re hiring. But I can’t land one job. So I can’t imagine not having legs. Godspeed.

  • @GeneReynolds-xc6ws
    @GeneReynolds-xc6ws 2 месяца назад +1

    Homeless Court to help Homeless people ticket

  • @goodolarchie
    @goodolarchie 2 месяца назад +1

    I don't do shelters? Because health issues. Maybe try another shelter that's set up for his disabilities. If it's because he's addicted then he has to choose no drugs or death.

  • @DavidMueller666
    @DavidMueller666 2 месяца назад +2

    God damn the conservative majority of the US Supreme Court. God damn those who make a spectacle of this man and his situation too.

  • @sonofbukowski
    @sonofbukowski 2 месяца назад +1

    "Sorry about that, my high goes up and down and right now shuuuhhh zzzzzzzz."

  • @Yourpizzanow
    @Yourpizzanow 2 месяца назад +3

    The pain at the end was tragic. Extrapolate that across the city.

    • @magazineretriever9036
      @magazineretriever9036 2 месяца назад +1

      This guy knew or should have known how dangerous street drugs were simply from observing the junkies around him. When he saw people tweaking, meth-raging, bouncing off walls, overdosing, and choking to death on their own vomit, he thought: "Yeah. That looks cool".

    • @RottenPopReviews
      @RottenPopReviews 2 месяца назад +4

      It's his own fault. There are shelters available.

  • @alwaysyouramanda
    @alwaysyouramanda 2 месяца назад +2

    “Reasonable” is up for debate

    • @alwaysyouramanda
      @alwaysyouramanda 2 месяца назад

      Says a lot when they choose a freezing tent over official “shelter”

    • @danadamson8930
      @danadamson8930 2 месяца назад +2

      Yeah, they are trying to avoid being dopesick, which is way worse than sleeping on the streets. If the shelters let them party, they would never leave. Get real.

    • @magazineretriever9036
      @magazineretriever9036 2 месяца назад +1

      Yeah. Most of these people are not in their right minds to "refuse shelter". It's inhumane NOT to shelter them. Sadly, if they refuse to go a homeless shelter, then the only humane alternative is jail.

    • @RottenPopReviews
      @RottenPopReviews 2 месяца назад +2

      It's his own fault. There are shelters available.

    • @Robin-f8f
      @Robin-f8f 2 месяца назад

      Actually, back in 2019, while I was staying at a shelter, I had to fill out a report about their bathrooms (potential Hep A). Luckily, I had pictures to back up my claims. Hopefully, after that, the Health Department has kept up on the shelters with inspections in Portland .

  • @MeoMiyo
    @MeoMiyo 2 месяца назад +2

    Is Shelby wearing a burlap bag.

  • @alwaysyouramanda
    @alwaysyouramanda 2 месяца назад +1

    People are dying and this is news.

  • @wafflewafflegod
    @wafflewafflegod 2 месяца назад +1

    The news seems so much less professional and reliable when it’s just her at the news desk.

  • @440hz7
    @440hz7 2 месяца назад +1

    Just move along.... this is just his story out of thousands....he is fine with the fact he is practicing his free will....

  • @connor_flanigan
    @connor_flanigan 2 месяца назад +2

    $100 fine? if he had $100, he'd buy more drugs or cigarettes

    • @magazineretriever9036
      @magazineretriever9036 2 месяца назад +1

      @@connor_flanigan This guy won’t be paying any fine. 😆

  • @chadsmith7075
    @chadsmith7075 2 месяца назад +4

    if you ask for counsel right away they cant ask you anymore. The crime has to have another component for arrest. the law is a violation of the first amendment. if you become homeless folks just go all the way and make that arrest worth it

  • @phil4346
    @phil4346 2 месяца назад

    Waiting for rain.

  • @tomwoehle3519
    @tomwoehle3519 2 месяца назад +1

    election year.

  • @dearfinesoul
    @dearfinesoul 2 месяца назад +1

    Go to the forest … get out of view

  • @DengShabu
    @DengShabu 2 месяца назад

    Portland needs to do more to care for the unhoused and drug addicts. Provide them free housing and free drugs so tehy don't need to steal to pay for their habits. No person should have to live in a shelter, they need single family homes where they can maintain their dignity.

  • @dianabailey9673
    @dianabailey9673 2 месяца назад +1

    Go after the unhoused but not the criminals, wow!

    • @magazineretriever9036
      @magazineretriever9036 2 месяца назад +3

      The main problem is the sheer size of these homeless encampments. In some cases, there are RVs parked on the side of the road for 2-mile stretches. That's a lot for any community to deal with. When you have massive clusters of RVs and tents in front of your home, you can expect your residence to get broken into by junkies who are looking to steal anything valuable that they can trade for drugs.

    • @jimk8520
      @jimk8520 2 месяца назад +2

      When your favorite team is ready to help pay for both, let us know.

  • @preshisify1
    @preshisify1 2 месяца назад

    🗽☕🇺🇲😷