Two reasons: The first is that I-5 from LA to Seattle has a huge street kid hitchhiker thing going on. Lots of middle class kids running away from home with their parents money to go have a hobo adventure. The other and apparently most shocking and offensive reason is that Portland has a ton of social services to offer for poor and homeless people.
I think we did shit like this in HS. Not me but I was riding in the car, we just drove around during rose festival and the guy riding shotgun would "sack tap" random people about to cross the streets.
Yeah, for the most part it is the friendly attitude towards dirt bags, occupy and the ease of attaining social services. The I5 corridor is one big hobo camp from Eugene to Portland.
I dunno if Portland still is, but it was the teenage homeless capital of the US about a decade ago. Both of the reasons you offer are a big part of the problem. The other piece is that many of the street kids are heavily into drugs, and black tar heroin is/was more readily available in Portland (and cheaper) than any other West Coast city.
Yeah, maybe we should bring the KKK back in drag those black boys down the road.....wow, racist humor is so god damn funny! har har har!
Here lets try it your way. news reports told me that a group of black kids in New Jersey knocked out a random stranger therefore I'm going to avoid all black people on the street (unless I have my gun on me) Nope. Still sounds fucking retarded
If you would like to go over crime statistics by race, I would be happy to or gang statistics by race. It's not fair, but it's reality. My wife doesn't trust Priests or male elementary school teachers. They are not all bad, in fact the majority are great, but some bad apples do spoil the whole bunch girl in this case.
Your wife is part of a huge problem then. Schools are begging for more male teachers, but why would a man enter that profession when they'd just have nonsensical women accuse them of being a pedophile. Your wife is a slave to the media's scare tactics, and it seems you are too.
So media scare tactics are what the prisons are filled with? Both of my cousins were molested by priests. is that a media scare tactic? My wife's uncle, a school teacher, molested her brothers. Is that a media scare tactic? maybe it's more life experiences than media scare tactics.
LOL. They have websites dedicated to providing info and updates on all the teachers that have been busted from sleeping with their students. I like to visit there when I get bored (or when there's a new hot teacher that got busted).