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Homeless encampment has Portland residents begging for help, scared to go outside: 'Absolutely helpless'
Fox News via Yahoo ^ | March 22, 2023 | Andrew Miller

Posted on 03/23/2023 11:38:25 AM PDT by grundle

A Portland, Oregon, community is on edge after a homeless man attacked a resident and a growing homeless encampment encroaches on the neighborhood

"It’s terrifying," Gwen Ingram, a resident living near Portland’s Southeast 111th Avenue and Powell Boulevard, told Fox 12 Oregon of the encampment.

"People scream at you, yell at you, threaten you."

Ingram told the outlet that the area was a peaceful "Leave it to Beaver"-style neighborhood until the first homeless resident showed up in a camper and the population grew so large that homeless individuals are now allegedly sleeping on private property, stealing things and breaking into homes.

"We never had any issues until the tents started moving in," Ingram's neighbor, Deena Closson, told the outlet, while explaining that she is scared to leave her home to get her mail.

Clossen claimed one night she was awoken by a man she didn’t know standing over her bed. In a panic, she sprayed the intruder with bug spray and threw a hammer at him until he fled out the front door.

Clossen told the outlet that she will likely be "leaving the home that I love."

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1 posted on 03/23/2023 11:38:25 AM PDT by grundle
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“In a panic, she sprayed the intruder with bug spray and threw a hammer at him until he fled out the front door.”

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I suggest she upgrade her home defense arsenal.


2 posted on 03/23/2023 11:41:41 AM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: grundle

“leaving the home that I love”

To government, it isn’t your house.


3 posted on 03/23/2023 11:41:46 AM PDT by alternatives?
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Rat values Rat world


4 posted on 03/23/2023 11:42:44 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: grundle

Liberals: is there anything they CAN’T ruin?


5 posted on 03/23/2023 11:42:54 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: grundle

Now in the olden days when something like this happened a group of substantial citizens would get together and burn the camp down driving all the bums away.

But that was the olden days. Everyone is more “woke” now.


6 posted on 03/23/2023 11:43:52 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Gene Eric

She probably voted for Tina Kotex..er...Kotek.


7 posted on 03/23/2023 11:44:18 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: CFW

Add a Bic lighter?


8 posted on 03/23/2023 11:46:31 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: grundle

keep voting Democrat- someday it might pay off- but doubtful


9 posted on 03/23/2023 11:51:20 AM PDT by Bob434
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Kwick! Elect more democrats!!!
10 posted on 03/23/2023 11:52:21 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: grundle

Tell me what Party you voted for last election and I’ll decide whether I have any sympathy for your predicament or not.


11 posted on 03/23/2023 11:54:36 AM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: grundle

Hey Portland residents, two things to remember:
1.There is a Second Amendment
2.Elections have consequences


12 posted on 03/23/2023 11:54:40 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: grundle

So they’re afraid to go outside. Will they still be able to vote straight Democrat by mail-in ballots?
The article doesn’t say.


13 posted on 03/23/2023 11:55:09 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: alternatives?
To government, it isn’t your house.

"This house has enough room for NINE families!"

"It’s terrifying," Gwen Ingram, a resident living near Portland’s Southeast 111th Avenue and Powell Boulevard, told Fox 12 Oregon of the encampment.

Mrs. Ingram has got to learn to put away the bug spray and smile a big, sh*t-eatin' grin, and say, "Welcome!"

Regards,

14 posted on 03/23/2023 12:01:17 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Help is on the way.
15 posted on 03/23/2023 12:04:30 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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16 posted on 03/23/2023 12:18:55 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: grundle

This might be new to this neighborhood, but we rented a verbose house in Portland before the Covid lockdowns and it was terrible then. I got up several times in the night to see if my husband’s truck was still there. There was a homeless guy running across the street one morning in his tightie whities, carrying his blankets. We guessed that he had been sleeping on someone’s porch or front door stoop.


17 posted on 03/23/2023 12:21:14 PM PDT by Eva
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To: grundle

The liberals are learning the value of the Second Amendment they only way know how to learn.


18 posted on 03/23/2023 12:23:12 PM PDT by Jonty30 (It is not how many that go into Mexico that counts. It is how many that return from Mexico.)
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To: grundle

These people are liberals. This is what they voted for. I really don’t have much sympathy for them. Maybe a few individuals who are conservative, but the community as a whole is getting what they voted for.


19 posted on 03/23/2023 12:29:57 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: grundle

The libs finally got their UTOPIA


20 posted on 03/23/2023 12:31:32 PM PDT by oil_dude
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