Fuck that, DamosA. If you've ever had to deal with meth heads in your neighborhood (and by that I mean The Neighborhood Where You Live, of course), you'd understand this level of frustration.

Mind you, the guy was a total fucking douchehose, and they edited out that sentence where he said, "I am rare!" from the original posting.

Christ, you're an idiot. Yeah, when we all like each other and get along, going over to your neighbors and politely asking them to stop doing stupid shit works just fine. But as it happens, there's plenty of times where that doesn't work at all - and yes, that's when the police get involved. That's their job, I'm pretty sure.

And I'm not what anyone would describe as a Yuppie. But what do I know? I don't have some dark n' scary emo photo like y'all.

See a black guy - call the cops.

What a fucking asshole.

Snitches aren't people.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Nevermind, you are a much bigger asshole than DamosA. To The Lloyd Center, go!

I'm not okay with meth and crack and heroin, but I would like to mention that people who call the cops on weed and hallucinogen dealers are all going straight to hell. It may be against 'the law', but in a nation where corporations decide what the law should be, legality has very little to do with justice.

Wow, people sure do love cops on this site. Really, who calls the cops unless its an emergency (having a drug dealing neighbor doesn't count as an emergency)? It's amazing how riled up everyone's getting towards old Damos for calling this pussy out for what he is, a SNITCH! I mean, come on, they teach you in elementary school that you shouldn't tattle tale. Yes, tweakers SUCK!! But so do cops, and now this spineless twerp has just invited the police to heavily patrol his neighborhood and greatly reduce his freedoms. There's a lot of things cops will bust you for besides meth, you dumbasses. I hope the next time this guy is having a jam with his musician buddies one of his neighbors decides to call the cops on him for noise. You shouldn't ever call the cops unless it is an EMERGENCY!! Oh yeah, if you are a perfect law abiding citizen, please leave my city 'cause you and your uptight white liberal granola eating ilk are what's causing the rent to go up in the innercity area and forcing long time citizens to be pushed to the outskirts. The suburbs really miss your whitebread yuppie asses!

"And who says that this supposed "drug dealer" was even a scumbag?"

Who says he wasn't a bona fide meth dealing scumbag? This is "I, Anonymous", moron. Let's just accept the premise and not pretend we actually know anything about anything here (including whether or not the events in question are even non-fiction).

Yeah, generally speaking cops suck, but if you think living across the street from a meth dealer (and the consequent parade of addicts) doesn't justify calling the cops, then I guarantee you are either a meth user yourself or you've never personally experienced the effects that particular drug has on human beings. Judging from your incessant whining about everything that ever appears in this column you're just some punk bitch prep-school nigger who hasn't lived a hard day in his life and uses his skin color as some kind of false badge of authority on all things that might possibly be perceived as oppressive (TRANSLATION: You are a poseur and a loser).

you know, it occurs to me that there are several issue's here. first being that some of you are missing the point. i live in the heart of down town portland and i deal with some of the worst fucking people in this city. it's not a homeless thing it's a twacked out on meth thing. and YES i can see them from a mile a fucking way. recently a patron at one of my favorite bars was kicked out for good. not because of the months upon months of him going in and out of the bathroom with trashy women to do his crystal, but because he decided to take a meth binge for 5 freaking days which he followed up with by threatening the life of one of my friends and neighbors. it was his slashing of bike tires on camera this particular evening that got him the boot. he was completely harmless sober, but when doing meth ? huge, dangerous, loose cannon with concealed weapons. or what about the mother who shot her two small children one after the other in the face because "they were SPIES officer !" once sober she didn't even remember killing them. meth is a helluva drug and not in the good way. secondly, you are all getting off the point and going off into some racist/anti-racist bull shit. get off it. the point is that whoever wrote this IA is a little extreme in his method's of extraction (and also apparently kind of a d bag) but the guy selling meth in open fashion dug his own grave, and now he will have to lie in it (and/or sell meth out of it). good for him for taking a stand and trying to do SOMETHING instead of NOTHING. let us not forget the extreme threat that meth labs pose. and he's doing it in an apartment building ? should the neighbor across the street have waited until the building blew up from cooking meth or until people got sick breathing in the fumes ? ditch your high horse and realize what and who you are defending.

i read the original post, on paper and online. i agree that he is a douche of somewhat galactic proportions. what i'm pointing out is that regardless of his fuckass attitude problems and small penis syndrome he's still in the right. when i first read this I,A the guy's holy-er than thou attitude really pissed me off. it still does. i honestly couldn't care less who his dumb-ass is (though he needs a swift kick to his nether region), or anyone for that matter that is willing to put in some work to getting rid of some garbage. were on the same page with that.

Damos, you can't be serious. Now you're a tough guy AND advocating murder? How sad and ridiculous.

By the way, "sticking a long knife in one of 'em and twisting that bitch 180 degrees" is a sure way to get the cops involved. Idiot.

"Look who's "pro-meth" now?"

Right, right, right, right, right... how foolish of me. My lack of interest and/or willingness to commit murder makes me pro-meth. That's brilliant. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here and just assume that you can't possibly be such an imbecile, and that in fact you're nothing more than a common internet troll. Everybody needs a hobby, I guess.

Holy shit! You really are an imbecile. Fascinating.

Please do us all a favor and leave Portland, your services are not needed here. Or at the very least move out past 82nd. You'll have endless opportunities to play vigilante out there.

Give it a rest, Batman. Most of us have decided that we prefer cops to tweakers. No amount of posturing about how tough you are is going to change anyone's mind.

Speaking of Godwin's Law... wait... are we talking about the tyranny of meth-addicts? Or the tyranny of the state? Oh, yeah, that's right... the Panopticon has arrived, and it's all our fault for calling the cops on those silly, fun-loving tweakers. Oops.

Just shove some bread under my door, please. Thanks, Damos.

Finally we agree, Damos. We should absolutely snitch on meth dealers every chance we get. They are the lowest of the low. Lower than snitches even (meaning their contribution to the world is even more pathetic than that of a snitch). It's a difficult paradox to handle, I know...be strong, Damos, you'll manage.

Oh, and I second Robocat's sentiments. I doubt Benjamin Franklin would have appreciated his words being twisted into some kind of juvenile call for anarchy.

@poopkiss, you made my day, as did all this tom foolery.

now, DamosA, let's see how many times you can quote everybody and make absolutely the same argument on each one. also, comparing this to Kristallnacht ???? so not even on the same page, my friend. moving on. this is a rediculous argument over nothing. honestly, are we all (by all i mean DamosA) really that up in arms about this ? correct me if i'm wrong, but, aren't police like, um, supposed to do their jobs ? isn't this the kind of shit they are here for ? i'm sorry but meth is in a whole different category than any other drug. i wouldn't feel safe about going to my neighbors house who i suspected of selling/using meth and confronting him about selling/using meth. great let's walk on over and get shot in the face ! good plan.

Ummm...no, we're not. We're discussing a hypothetical scenario as presented in a silly column in a free weekly "hipster newspaper". No one (besides you), as far as I can tell, gives a crap if this particular episode is based in fact or not. Regardless, I wouldn't call this guy a peeping tom (Was he hiding in a tree and masturbating or something? Did I miss that part?) or a spy. Why? Because he has eyeballs? My neighbor has four young children...stupid, loud, obnoxious children...does that observation make me a peeping tom and a spy as well? I think I'd probably notice - without even trying - if he was selling meth out of his front door.

Also, interesting that a guy who tries so hard to present himself as a...what are you supposed to be again...? A satanist-metalhead hipster? Interesting that you find it so easy to pass judgement on someone for professing to be a "long-haired hipster". You are truly a model of tolerance and inclusiveness. End of comment.

"I let it be known I had cameras set up in my house..."

That's not spying, that's called vigilance.

Yeah, I'll give you that one.

Cheers.

Am I the only one who was offended by the trailer park comment?

What a piece of arrogant middle-class trash.

@Lee

"Am I the only one who was offended by the trailer park comment?"

Probably.