"this part of town"? Really, the MEAN STREETS of 52nd and Powell? For fuck's sake, do yourself a favor and get out more.

As for those tacos, hooray! Now the man can stop panhandling for food and resume panhandling for drug / drink money.

Selling your shoes for taco bell is a really bad idea. How are you supposed to keep your feet warm? Hopefully they called Project Respond because I would bet there is some underlying mental illness here.

Oblivious ice prez post is oblivious....

You did a good thing. You won't think it, but feel assured many people are like you. Go figure calling the cops. It breaks my heart the people who think homeless are all criminals.

Have A Happy New Year,you did the best you could.

I call bullshit. I live near there, and the junkies from Johnson Creek have been migrating down to Powell. They never say "I want money for tar heroin from the Mexican drug cartels" but that is what they want.

Homeless advocates teach the junkies to say "don't stereotype me!" so why don't you stop stereotyping whoever called the cops. You weren't watching shoeless junkie Joe for hours. The cops are usually slow to respond to homeless issues, so perhaps he really was high and disrupting traffic.

People are trying to make thta area a nice place in spite of strip clubs, a brothel and traffic. Donating money to the cartels via their junkie fundraisers is not okay.

Help the elderly instead. I have given money (unsolicited) to senior citizens at Freddies and watched them blow it on reduced meat and rice and marked down bread. They can stretch a fiver.

Translating Rich Bachelor:

"Boohoohoo I am a junkie and I live under a tarp and the world is my bathroom, you owe me a living and some money for Mexican smack . I raise money for the drug cartels, but don't judge me."

Fact: every rant ever posted to I,A is 100% and not even slightly exaggerated

"I didn't have cash but I told him I'd run through the drive thru for him."

Really means: "I had a little cash but I wasn't sure he'd spend it on food."

"He was not harassing anyone. He was not disrupting traffic."

Really means: "I dunno. I just got here. Was he?"

What would you rather have him do, Rev, move downtown under the Burnside Bridge, where it's much, more convenient to make meal times at the Blanchet House? Is this some sort of back handed compliment to Powell? Are you trying to say that Powell doesn't have any good strip clubs and lowlifes of it's own; they all come from Johnson Creek? Admittedly, DV8 is a much better strip club than most, but you get my drift.

He'll only use those tacos for drugs!

RBM, you give unsolicited money to people at Fred Meyer? Seems that would have very high potential to offend someone.

Where is the brothel, Rev? That wasn't cited in the research memorandum regardomg Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) in the Portland Metro Area by Dr Christopher Carey and his side kick, Lena Teplitsky of Portland State University.

http://media.oregonlive.com/portland_impac…

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/ha…

I was also going to ask about the location of this 'brothel.' For reasons.

I worked grave yard at that taco bell two or three years ago. Did you ever hear fools screaming while making your five layer? That was me.