The O has an update on the Portland couple whose risky/sexy public bondage display wound up attracting a shit-ton of cops and international notoriety: The Multnomah County District Attorney’s office today reduced the disorderly-conduct charges to violations against the young Portland couple arrested on Valentine’s Day for so-called “role-playing’’ that had one witness concerned the […]
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When Hearts Attack!
Lilliput Station … and his Magic Band! Nothing says I love you like a nice big heart, right? Some pour souls who live on the 2300 block of NW Flanders might beg to differ. They wound up calling the cops this morning, the day after Valentine’s Day, after finding exactly that on their doorstep: a […]
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Chris Brown: The Quiz
In 2009, Chris Brown was convicted of felony assault for beating up his then-girlfriend Rihanna. This past Sunday, Brown performed twice on the Grammy Awards and took home the award for Best R&B Album. Many people are not happy.
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Valentine’s Day Bondage Date All Kinds of Wrong
As Denis reported yesterday, the Portland Police had a Valentine’s date with two bondage enthusiasts… Valentine’s Day ended badly for Stephanie Pelzner and it’s not because she spent part of the afternoon naked and bound with her mouth taped shut in the back of a Subaru. Pelzner, 26, and her boyfriend Nikolas Harbar, 31, were […]
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TriMet Bus Driver Assault!
Ack! Be nice to your bus driver tonight, someone is suspected of lashing out at their driver on Powell: This afternoon, Monday February 13, 2012, at 4:05 p.m., Portland Police and Transit Police officers responded to Southeast 9th Avenue and Powell Boulevard on the report of a man who assaulted a TriMet bus operator. Officers […]
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Justice Department Shuts Down Megaupload, Arrests Executives
This is huge: The United States Justice Department filed charges against MegaUpload today, calling the file-sharing service an “international organized criminal enterprise allegedly responsible for massive worldwide online piracy.” Founder Kim Dotcom and three MegaUpload executives were arrested today in Auckland, New Zealand at the request of the US government under provisional arrest warrants, and […]
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Who Stole Roger Rabbit?
So what ever happened to those 23 rabbits stolen from the Portland Meat Collective last week? I know, I know, I’ve kept you waiting. Turns out there were only 18 — which doesn’t make it any less important and insulting — lifted from Levi Cole’s property Saturday evening. Of the 18, the Portland Police recovered […]
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Rabbit Capers Strike Again!
Remember November’s sad “animal rights”- fueled rabbit-snatching incident? It’s happened again. This time, however, the ‘nappers have raised the bar. Instead of a mere pair, 23 rabbits were lifted from Levi Cole’s Portland property on Saturday evening. Cole, a Portland Meat Collective instructor, had scheduled a class on raising, slaughtering and preparing (for consumption) rabbits […]
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John Wayne Gacy “Victim” Found in Beaverton… Alive!
A man presumed killed by serial killer/amateur clown John Wayne Gacy has turned up, very much alive, 35 years later in Beaverton. Take it away, Associated Press! “My family thought I was dead. That hurt when I heard that,” the 59-year-old carpenter told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “There’s a difference between being murdered and […]
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Sexual Assault Reported at PSU
Ugh. In a stark reminder that one in five American women experience sexual assault, Portland Police are investigating the sexual assault on a Portland State University student. From their announcement: On Tuesday December 20, 2011, at 3:20 p.m., Portland Police officers assigned to Central Precinct responded to the report of a female screaming in the […]
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Portland Police Respond to Call of Raging Jedi Swinging Lightsaber
I’ll admit to a little bit of push and pull before posting this one. One on hand, it’s about a man swinging a lightsaber at a toy store, and briefly fending off the police with it. But, then, hey—buzzkill!—the case, at heart, is also about someone struggling with mental illness. Anyway, here’s what the Portland […]
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UPDATE: Stolen Bunny Found!
More bunny capers! As Alex Z reported yesterday, a Portland woman is searching for her pet rabbits, after coming home to find a passive-aggressive note from alleged animal rights activists who felt her bunnies should not be living in a hutch outside. The bunny-nappers wrote that they had stolen the bunnies in order to provide […]