Posted on 07/13/2023 12:47:37 AM PDT by Libloather
Residents of one Seattle neighborhood are furious vagrants living in an encampment have been spending summer days installing a blow-up pool to enjoy between hits of fentanyl.
Highland Park homeowners - many who are elderly - say the addition of a pool in the area feels like a slap in the face after months of voicing their concerns.
Video captured by KOMO in the Seattle neighborhood shows one woman sitting on a couch next to the pool and smoking fentanyl in broad daylight.
'These people come in and totally trash the place. Someone told me they hooked up a hose and filled a swimming pool with it,' said Herb Egge, who lives nearby.
Egge and other residents of a senior living facility across from the encampment say they fear they are going to get shot or robbed by one of the homeless individuals.
The encampment witnessed a recent murder, but officials in the crime-ridden city are dragging their heels with removing it, despite outrage from law-abiding taxpayers living nearby.
'When I hear the shooting, I stay down and away from the windows,' said Cheryl Galyeam. 'There are times I've had to get on the floor in the middle of the night.
Residents say they are unsure where the pool came from or how it became filled with water.
The logistics don't matter to the residents who are sharing their concerns - and anger - over the camp growing along SR 509 and Myers Way.
'All of this is ludicrous,' said Egge.
'I thought, "oh my God, what next?"' said Galyeam in reference to the pool.
At first, they said it was just a few RVs. Now, the number is over a dozen.
'And they ain't paying nothing and stuff like that, but we've got to pay to live here,'...
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don’t forget the pee.
Well you trouble! Yes sir trouble right here in River City!
Hey seattle...
Embrace the suck that you have created...
Seattle used to be a nice place, no? But has been ceded to hardcore commie filth from kalifornistan. It’s a crying shame.
Why does the movie “Death Wish III” come to mind?
And where is Paul Kersey (Charlie Bronson) when we need him?
Cities that allow this crap are incentivizing evil...
Ha...I know liberals who live kinda near there...they voted for it!!!
Maybe they would be happier if it was a yoga studio..
No doubt about it.
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