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Detlef Sping:
I could prove quite profitable.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:27:57 pm)
Queenie:
My friend's hair??
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:32:34 pm)
Heruka:
someone snitched on those fuckers.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:33:19 pm)
Detlef Sping:
Mr. Harry Mitts #305433 P.O. Box 788 Mansfield, Ohio 44901-0788 Date of Birth: 06-18-52 Nickname: Don The good news is that God called me out of the darkness and through the precious blood of Jesus, I have eternal life. The bad news is I'm on death row.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:33:40 pm)
Heruka:
sucks to be him.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:40:16 pm)
Heruka:
yeah, they all seem to find god in there.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:40:52 pm)
:
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- As afternoon traffic rumbled by, a young couple in grunge clothes and combat boots climbed over the rail of the downtown Steel Bridge, slipped twin nooses from a single rope around their necks and jumped to their deaths. For nearly an hour, the bodies dangled side by side about 50 feet above the Willamette River. Cars slowed. A crowd gathered on the banks. Workers in office buildings rushed toward the windows. Amtrak passengers were warned to close their curtains as their train drew near the lower level of the bridge, where the bodies hung at eye level until police could remove them. The couple, 29-year-old Michael Douglas and his 25-year-old fiancee, Mora McGowan, were heroin addicts whose habit left them broke, cigaretteless, tormented and hopeless.``I think I've decided on an old-fashioned public hanging,'' Douglas wrote in a 13-page journal found in the book bag slung over his shoulder. "The Steel Bridge shall be my gallows on the Steel Bridge." The very public suicide July 1 shocked this city, at least for a moment, into the realization that many of the young people who live on the streets here are addicts and there is little help available for them.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:42:33 pm)
Chewing Wax:
It's a great town
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:44:13 pm)
Detlef Sping:
at least for a moment?
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:44:27 pm)
Chewing Wax:
And then they said, "Oh yeh, we're in Portland".
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:45:01 pm)
Detlef Sping:
That's a bit drastic just because you fun out of smokes.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:45:27 pm)
Chewing Wax:
As if awakening from a nightmare only to find out the nightmare was real.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:45:30 pm)
Chewing Wax:
Smokes are addictive.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:45:40 pm)
Detlef Sping:
They should have just got a job.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:47:08 pm)
Detlef Sping:
or left Portland.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:47:37 pm)
Chewing Wax:
They could have got a job designing lame ass websites or something.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:47:47 pm)
Heruka:
little help available? that's strange. every other place in this country has free rehabs. Ohio has several programs. I think the writer is trying to manipulate.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:48:26 pm)
Chewing Wax:
You think?
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:49:01 pm)
Heruka:
mmm heroin. I love the stuff. I eat it for breakfast.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:49:33 pm)
Decoy:
They should have quit. Or not started in the first place! What a waste.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:49:37 pm)
Heruka:
it's a little known fact, that along with a healthy diet and excercise, heroin can help lower you cholesterol.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:50:27 pm)
:
Heroin is responsible for more deaths in Oregon than any other drug, according to Dr. Larry Lewman, state medical examiner. In 1997, there were 13,221 drug-related deaths in Oregon; of those, 13,161 involved heroin. In a study released this month by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, nearly 44 percent of the men arrested in Portland and 77 percent of the women tested positive for heroin or related opiates. The rate among the Portland women was the highest of all 23 major U.S. cities studied. Just over 1 million people live on the streets in the Portland metropolitan area.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:51:28 pm)
Detlef Sping:
Holy shit!
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:52:22 pm)
Detlef Sping:
over 1 million people live on the streets in Portland? it rains there a lot that can't be true. maybe that explains the suicides.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:55:06 pm)
Heruka:
1 million? I doubt that. what's the population of the Portland area? 2 million?
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:55:44 pm)
Heruka:
it's an obvious ie. which puts those other numbers in question.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:56:28 pm)
Heruka:
lie.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:56:37 pm)
Queenie:
They're mostly street punks, it's a lifestyle thing. There's plenty of places they can go but they don't want to.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:57:11 pm)
Queenie:
Why was "cigaretteless" important to that story? I remember when that happened. If I were going to hang myself, I'd probably pick the steel bridge too. It's pretty cool.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:58:06 pm)
Detlef Sping:
50% homeless seems like a high number.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:58:09 pm)
Detlef Sping:
How can businesses survive it must be like Oliver Twist around there.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:59:07 pm)
Queenie:
I took this picture of my friend Jason on the train tracks under the steel bridge.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:59:16 pm)
Queenie:
We found poop under there. Human poop.
(Thu Oct 24, 2002 - 2:59:32 pm)