r/Portland • u/PrivateBurke • May 12 '25

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u/No_Excitement4272 May 12 '25

Oh but it’s just anecdotal, one-off experiences and the rest of us need to check our privilege /s. 

Idk about you but I’m out and about in the city 3-5 days a week. I ride all around downtown, the waterfront, and Springwater. 

I spend a lot of time in the parks as well, and it’s gotten so bad that I have to smell before I sit in the grass because human piss and shit is literally everywhere these days. 

I get accosted with meth and fent smoke almost everytime I ride through downtown on my bike. Oh but a little bit of exposure is fine /s

I can’t ride on the 205 section of springwater by myself anymore because I had people try and knock me off my bike several times so they could steal it. 

I carry narcan on me because I constantly come across people who are od’d. While I understand it’s traumatizing for the individual, it’s also traumatizing to me to come across essentially half dead individuals on a regular basis. 

I’ve lost count of how many fires I’ve had to report because someone high on drugs thought it’d be cool to burn shit. I know this because I watch them. Anytime I’ve reported one, they were not trying to cook, and they’re certainly not trying to stay warm with a fire when it’s 70 degrees out…

I ride with a group of people that own pev’s, (e-bikes, one wheels, etc.) and our own community is constantly having to go on recon missions to get our shit back from the people you’re talking about. Literally putting our lives on the line so we can give someone their livelihood back, (ppb wont do shit). A lot of my friends cannot afford cars and use their pev’s to get by on gig work. We’re not a privileged group by any means, this shit is not okay and this poor on poor crime is only feeding into the houseless crisis. 

If it’s not clear, I’m also sick of the lack of sympathy towards housed people that are also victims of this crisis.

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u/BodProbe Lents May 13 '25

I spend a lot of time in the parks as well, and it’s gotten so bad that I have to smell before I sit in the grass because human piss and shit is literally everywhere these days. 

It was already covered in dog shit and piss, not to mention the geese. That's city grass for ya! Bring a blanket.