Of all the lame shit one is inundated with while riding around Portland you chose to have issue with some guy on a pogo stick? Seriously?

Go kill yourself, please.

keep portland pogo

You're all missing the point. It's merely transference due to a childhood Zubaz accident. Don't hate the playa, hate the Zubaz.

Let's find this dude's ass and throw rotten fruit at 'im!

Aw man, what happens to some people at 39? they get alllll serious about whatever physical thing. You're at 5 AM, wave hi to someone jogging past, he just scowls at the ground. Some dude out on sunday afternoon pulling his kids around, but he's glaring at the road ahead like he's going to get to wear some special jersey if he gets up there in less than eight minutes

Go by Pogo!

Cheers to neighborhood pogo enthusiasts. Jeers to douchey bikers.

I support this Anonymous. So much of the "keeping weird of Portland" seems incredibly forced to me. People are trying SOOOO hard.

The pogo stick guy is getting noticed and commented upon BECAUSE THAT'S PRECISELY WHAT HE WANTS. Do you really think that he's pogo-sticking down the street with the expectation that he'll go unnoticed?

"Oh what, this thing? It was just lying around the house. I didn't think any one would notice if I road it shirtless down the street."

Let's all stop encouraging these people to think they're interesting. The bar for "interesting" is set very very low in Portland. "Look, I'm wearing shutter shades!"

I think someone is jealous. Also, I think there should be a topless pogo sticking girl too.

As a resident of that particular SE 35th/34th, Belmont/Morrison block who sees "pogo guy" on occasion, i feel i have it upon special authority to comment. You must be one extremely bored, lonely, hateful ASSHOLE to whine & bitch about some random guy on a pogo stick! No, seriously, why do you give a fuck?! You must live a very cherished, yet bitter life that some guy on a pogo stick has you soo bothered. You sound just like that asshole from last week's "i, anonymous", who was whining & bitching about someone he/she saw wearing neon. Really?! I suppose you must really hate the guy with dreadlocks down to his knees too, or the person with the fur-covered 'tallie' bike. Or the old lady with pink hair, or the guy with lots facial piercings. Why Heavens to Betsy, there's even acouple of businesses on that block... owned by MINORITIES, AHHH!!! Tell you what, since you clearly prefer to live in a homogenized area where everyone walks, talks, & dresses the same & the streets are free & clean of "wierdos" - why don't you get the fuck out of SE Morrison/Belmont & move your happy ass to Lake Oswego?

And i like how you'd "swear to God" to assault some random person on the street with your bike b/c you don't like them pogoing. So, i take it you're also a sanctimonious christian piece-o-shit who's prone to violence, huh? Man, i really hope pogo guy read your little bitchass rant & your cheap anonymous threat. And i hope he keeps pogoing knowing well that he's pissing someone off, but there ain't a damned thing that asshole can do about it!

The fact that he found it funny to pretend to run into someone is kind of an asshole move.

he had me at zubaz..sigh.

Wow, you people are actually entertained by a grown man on a pogo stick? I agree with the anonymous fellow on the bike but I know he'd never actually run over the guy because it would fuck up his fixie. I hope they both get run over by an art car or a jackass on a really tall bike.

"I hope they both get run over by an art car or a jackass on a really tall bike."

WHY? Why should someone be KILLED or severely injured for their mode of transportation? Not EVERYONE can have a car. Find a bigger issue.

I fully agree with DamosA. If you don't like Pogo Guy then you don't like Portland. Get the fuck out of here. Move to southern California where you can keep on hating.

I live in Pogo Guy's neighborhood and experience his pogo antics on a regular basis. He pogos for exercise, claims he's lost inches off his waist line, and offers an attempt at the pogo to anyone passing by. He is a genuinely nice guy who is doing no harm exercising in his neighborhood via pogo. The writer of this I, Anonymous must be living a seriously bitter life to want to knock him into the street. I suggest you stay out of our neighborhood and bring your negativity somewhere else.

"If you don't like Pogo Guy then you don't like Portland. Get the fuck out of here. Move to southern California where you can keep on hating."

Said the guy who just moved here...

ha Blabby is one of those douches that thinks they're cool shit cause they lived here their whole life ... fuckin loser

Wish I had been born here so my comments would automatically more relevant than everyone else's.

Wish I had been born here so my comments would automatically BE more relevant than everyone else's.

*Fixed*

Pogo is awesome--who doesn't want to bounce on a stick--seriously? The only lameness here is the insipid, eye-roll-inducing, wet blanket writing this I Anonymous.

On a side note: Dear Mercury, are you picking these weak ass complaints by Drunk Monkey Committee?

It takes more courage to wear fancy pants and ride a pogo than to post some anonymous online threat of violence. And thank you once again Portland Mercury for posting this (and other) anonymous threats and legitimizing the animal instinct to destroy that which we feel inferior to.

I'm sure it's hard enough to wear something weird and go pogoing down the street without knowing there's a fuckin' price on your little, bobbing head.

"ha Blabby is one of those douches that thinks they're cool shit cause they lived here their whole life"

Actually, I'm not much concerned with looking cool, which is why I'm exasperated by people who do things like ride a pogo stick around town to get attention.

Like I said, it's so forced, and yet it seems to work like a charm on all you guys.

Pogo sticks rock. But if Zubaz dude is being a dick, well then, I gotta back Anonymous up

@Blabby, I think it's because, as I said, it actually takes courage to look foolish in public. Any dick fingered Joe can play it straight and hide in the crowd. Those that go out and let the old flag fly AND still maintain some fucking check on their own ego should be commemorated. At least left alone. Def. not run over. Certainly they're gonna receive shit from some dumb cocksnotter who's made to feel the limits of his own courage by someone else's display of bravado...that's a given I guess...no matter where you're living.

Then again some 'freaky people' are incredibly close minded and really take their shudder shades too seriously. You do have a point there.

In my experience there seems to be a strong correlation between age and how seriously you take yourself. 'Fucking Kids' seem to think that everyone around them simply MUST be watching and wringing their hands over what marvelous thing Fashionably Angsty Kid will do next.

Tra-La-La
Life goes on.

Yeah bed time, I don't think that making threats against pogo guy is warranted. That's going too far.

I just believe that 90% of the time "flying the flag" isn't about the individual at all. It's about putting on a show. I refuse to validate those people. They need to find something more substantial to hang their self esteem on then forcing others to watch them be "quirky."

Start seeing pogos.

for an "enlightened" town we do seem to have a lot of intolerance. Folks seem to be so tribal around here. I have lived places with much more conformity that actually seem more tolerant of unusual behavior. I mean I lived in SALT LAKE CITY where there is a LOT of conformity, yet the conformists there are surprisingly tolerant of unusual behavior, maybe because their forbears were hounded out of 5 states because of their own unusual beliefs, and forced into the desert where they started their OWN state, and so maybe understand what it is like to be on the receiving end of intolerance. It is not about age, or religion, or whether you bike or drive, or whether you are a "minority" or not, or whether you are "green" or not, or whether you pogo or walk on your hands. Its about whether you are okay with being around people who are different in thought or behavior.

I'm the pogo guy on 35th.

No, I don't go out of my way to pretend to pogo into people or bicyclists. If I gave you that impression, I'm sorry.

As for everything else, you have a lot of hatred in your heart. You should get some help.

Dear Pogo Hater,
If you stopped hating for a sec and tried 10 bounces on one of those things, you might have an ounce of understanding. I passed by and the pogo guy was outgoing, friendly, and funny. There are a lot of other things critical to our neighborhood than your petty banter. Put yourself on someone else's pogo and enjoy the ride!

Pogo Hater might have felt better after expressing his rage in that brave anonymous rant, but he's probably just as miserable and angry now as he was before he wrote that. What he needs to do to solve his problem is buy a large, hydraulic pogo stick. That's because Pogo Hater is actually just jealous. Yep, jealousy is really fueling his fire, and the only way he'll ever be able to resolve it is to get his own pogo stick and start hoppin'.

P.S. I wish we had a pogo hopper in our neighborhood.

Hi, I am the wife of the pogo guy. I have to tell you that I am proud of my husband's pogo hobby. He doesn't need to find another one!!!! He enjoys it and at same time he gets his excise, he is in great shape because of pogo around everyday. All our neighbors enjoyed to watch him. He is a very nice guy with a good heart who also loves to ride bike everywhere he goes and hates to drive. He will never ever crash to bicyclist. If you can't stand the pogo, you just don't come around SE 35th. After all, America is a free country. By the way, he is at Salt Lake City for the national pogo event. Have fun, my darling!!!

I don't have problems with anybody thats weird, just Midwesterners.