Street youths and foodcart operators brawl in downtown Portland

[BlazerWookee]

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Imagine this + panhandling + talking shit if you don't give them money = Portland streetkid

YOUTUBE COMMENT OF THE YEAR NOMINATION:

Trevor, this is your aunt Irene, your mother is not going to be happy with this, especially after those things you said at Thanksgiving.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

You have been watching way too much Ellen. Time to turn off the TV and get the testosterone flowing. Next thing I know, you are going to start bitching about cigar smoke.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

rep'd

 

[ABM]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

rep'd

Ur a mess.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

So, let me get this straight: The author of the article called them "youths," but the so-called "homeless advocate" called them "gutter punks?"

That is what they call themselves. It's a culture with rules and all that.

 

[BlazerWookee]

That is what they call themselves. It's a culture with rules and all that.

They should call them by their right name: "Smelly Obnoxious Assholes."

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

They should call them by their right name: "Smelly Obnoxious Assholes."

iirc that name made the top three

 

[ABM]

25yr old homeless people are street youths?

You ever been to any of the cart pods? Cash only! You think they pay their fair share of taxes? Fuck no! But here they are complaining that they don't get enough police protection.

Me thinks you may be over-generalizing much?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Me thinks you may be over-generalizing much?

"A simmering dispute between a pack of homeless street youths and the operators of a downtown Portland foodcart finally boiled over Monday afternoon and resulted in a brawl that ended with police hauling six people off to jail.

Taken into custody were: Tatiana Dawn Gutierrez, 18, Mathew Allen Juniper, 21, James Paine, 21, Matthew Koontz, 23, Samuel Gene Hambrick, 25, and Zachary Lee Lloyd, 19."

He's homeless and he's 25yrs old. How is that an over-generalizing? He's not a street "youth". He's a bum.



Have you been to many street carts? It's not hard to take credit or debit cards these days. Just a little scanner and app on your smartphone. But none that I've seen do it. They all tell you to go to some funky looking ATM in the corner of the cart pod. Strippers and cocktail waitresses have more tax reporting requirements than these cart owners do. Maybe it's the skeptic in me but I'm just not buying that the majority of these cart owners pay their correct amount in taxes.

 

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"A simmering dispute between a pack of homeless street youths and the operators of a downtown Portland foodcart finally boiled over Monday afternoon and resulted in a brawl that ended with police hauling six people off to jail.

Taken into custody were: Tatiana Dawn Gutierrez, 18, Mathew Allen Juniper, 21, James Paine, 21, Matthew Koontz, 23, Samuel Gene Hambrick, 25, and Zachary Lee Lloyd, 19."

He's homeless and he's 25yrs old. How is that an over-generalizing? He's not a street "youth". He's a bum.



Have you been to many street carts? It's not hard to take credit or debit cards these days. Just a little scanner and app on your smartphone. But none that I've seen do it. They all tell you to go to some funky looking ATM in the corner of the cart pod. Strippers and cocktail waitresses have more tax reporting requirements than these cart owners do. Maybe it's the skeptic in me but I'm just not buying that the majority of these cart owners pay their correct amount in taxes.

We need to rip the cart owner's flesh off and sell it for cash

 

[SlyPokerDog]

We need to rip the cart owner's flesh off and sell it for cash

LOL! Nah.

 

[ABM]

Have you been to many street carts? It's not hard to take credit or debit cards these days. Just a little scanner and app on your smartphone. But none that I've seen do it. They all tell you to go to some funky looking ATM in the corner of the cart pod. Strippers and cocktail waitresses have more tax reporting requirements than these cart owners do. Maybe it's the skeptic in me but I'm just not buying that the majority of these cart owners pay their correct amount in taxes.

You may be right. The one's (admittedly, not many) I been too have been good. No issues.

Anyway, I was interested and found this little piece. I'm hopeful that a large percentage of Portland's food carts don't fall into the non-tax-paying description you've alluded to..

http://portlandmonthlymag.com/eat-and-drink/food-cart-city/articles/food-carts-0910

Less than a decade ago, a Portlander who frequented one semi-sanitary burrito truck could smugly feel like an urban insider. Today, Multnomah County licenses more than 300 food carts. Within 100 yards of Addy’s alone, pavement gourmands can savor Korean tacos, first-class espresso, and walloping Bosnian pitas. A half-dozen gyro options jostle with a week’s worth of banh mi choices. Cult-favorite pork yakisoba competes with single-dish purveyors of Bangkok street delicacies. One newcomer promises "anything you can stuff in a dumpling."

No one planned Portland’s cart revolution. In a city that tends to workshop and white-paper every last particle of its existence, "the carts" are a rare local instance of Taoist urbanism. And in the process of letting them happen, the city stumbled upon a form of kudzu capitalism—powered by propane tanks and makeshift wiring—that reclaims and revitalizes vacant land. Portland’s food-cart phenomenon couples the city’s obsession with gastronomy and a dirty-fingernailed, DIY brand of free enterprise. It’s the perfect combination for the dynamic talent this city attracts, and for our gloomy economic times....

 

[santeesioux]

Oregon Live doesn't know that youths is a code word?


I once saw two hot dog vendors fight over a patch of sidewalk in front of Maple Leaf Gardens.

You going to send this to Mr. Cumia, or am i?

 

[MARIS61]

Reminds me of last year in Bend, a travelling squad selling magazines took umbrage with a travelling vacuum selling squad and battled ensued in the motel parking lot.

 

[ABM]

Reminds me of last year in Bend, a travelling squad selling magazines took umbrage with a travelling vacuum selling squad and battled ensued in the motel parking lot.

Reading into that, I'm sure that sucked.

 

[BrianFromWA]

The Mega-Maid said it went from "suck" to "blow"

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Ur a mess.

Oh c'mon, it was funny.

 

[Eastoff]

YOUTUBE COMMENT OF THE YEAR NOMINATION:

I cannot rep someone for quoting youtube, but if my morals allowed it...

 

[oldguy]

at that kid bending over to blow his bong smoke through a anti smell device of some sort

clearly in his moms basement

I think it was during the Jailblazers era that someone said that a player told them that, when they were at a motel/hotel, they exhale the smoke through an empty 2 liter bottle, with the bottom cut out, and the bottle loosely stuffed with sheets of fabric softener made for the dryer. Apparently, the sheets absorb the odor.

(Can't remember is this was a Damon/Sheed tip, or if it was Zbo.)

Hopefully, another helpful Blazers factoid for basement dwellers.

Go Blazer

 

[ABM]

Oh c'mon, it was funny.

meh, i suppose