Virgin America is introducing LAX-PDX and SFO-PDX routes
Oregon Driver Gets $2000-Worth of Speeding Tickets On Way To Meth-Related Court Appearance
“Traffic officers along Interstate 84 in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge say a lead-footed driver was in such a hurry to make a court date on a meth possession charge that he racked up $2,000 worth of speeding tickets in an hour.
Police say the 34-year-old was zooming west Wednesday morning and got pulled over three times - first at 105 mph, then at 98 mph and finally at 92 mph.
Police say the last ticket appeared to have an effect. Down the road a bit, a trooper set up watch and clocked him at the limit, 65 mph.
Besides fines and penalties, police say his license could be suspended for up to 90 days if he’s found guilty on the citation alleging driving in excess of 100 mph.
Police confirm he was indeed scheduled for a court appearance later Wednesday in Oregon City, south of Portland.”
Mt. Bachelor, from above.
Reblogged for the Blazers gear
Cam’ron, Monica Lewinsky, and Dame Dash
This was the first photo I posted on Facebook way back in 2004.
Portland police not laughing at Valentine's Day stunt
“A young Portland couple called it Valentine’s Day role playing. Police called it disorderly conduct, saying it created public alarm as well as taking up the time of at least nine patrol cars for 20 minutes Tuesday.
That’s how long police spent checking out an alarmed 911 caller’s report of a possible kidnapping. The caller reported seeing a car leaving a grocery parking lot with a naked woman tied up in the back with duct tape over her mouth.
Sgt. Pete Simpson says officers flooded the area and alerted Washington state law enforcement in case the car headed north on Interstate 5.
When police located the car shortly before 1 p.m., Simpson says a 31-year-old man gave officers the role-playing explanation. Police confirmed that account with the man’s 26-year-old girlfriend. Simpson says both were arrested for second-degree disorderly conduct and booked into jail.
Typically, Simpson says the district attorney’s office might drop such a case from a misdemeanor to a violation, like a traffic ticket.”
Oregon Lawmakers Not Entirely Insane
“It was dubbed the ‘flash mob’ bill when it got a hearing Monday at the Oregon Legislature — a proposal to make it a felony to summon people by Twitter or email to commit a crime at a designated place.
Now it’s more like flash-in-the-pan.
‘It’s dead,’ said Sen. Floyd Prozanski, the Eugene Democrat who, because he holds the gavel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, gets to decide such things. Yet 11 Republicans and one Democrat signed onto Senate Bill 1534, which would have created the crime of ‘aggravated solicitation.’”
You still can’t buy liquor in grocery stores, though.
Portland has its good and bad features, this pretty accurately captures the bad. Have you ever been to The Bye and Bye? That place is like a homosexual white fascist’s dream porn set soundtracked by Fleet Foxes/Iron and Wine.
ALSO, can we stop creating this false dichotomy between Portland and Brooklyn? People are comparing a small-sized city with a legitimately white-majority population, to some myopic media perception of maybe like one or two neighborhoods in THE MOST POPULATED BOROUGH OF NEW YORK CITY. Brooklyn has 3 fucking million people living in it, and Mr and Ms Media Reducto over here are reducing it to a few banal and dated stereotypes about the privileged white people who live on Bedford Avenue and/or Park Slope. GUESS WHAT, Williamsburg existed before “hipsters” moved there. This borough is 42% white, 35% Latino, 34% Black, AND ALL LOVE. Whereas Portland’s community of color is largely relegated to outlying suburbs and neighborhoods still affected by the segregating effects of redlining in the 1940s, and is stuck with a “liberal” white community that is so scared to admit it might be racist that its lack of dialogue and overt white-niceness towards blacks and Latinos there completely otherizes them in a totally condescending way. ANYWAY! STOP SAYING THE TERM “BROOKLANDIA,” and also PORTLAND IS NOT A UTOPIA FOR NOT-WHITE PEOPLE.
Not quite.
