• Man stabbed in the parking lot of the Shell Gas Station at 99th & Sandy

• Woman molested and beaten in a port-a-potty on 99th & Sandy

• A heavyset man with wild hair approached me while I was on my phone outside of my business on 99th & Sandy. He was mumbling and speaking in some weird fashion. I asked him to leave me alone and he started following me around. I told him again to leave me alone and he followed me inside of my store. I asked for him to leave and he wouldn’t. He acted like I wasn’t even there. He just kept smiling and mumbling to himself. A coworker screamed at him and he wouldn’t leave. I called PPB but was put on hold. The man kept approaching my coworker and I had her close herself up in the manager's office while I dealt with this guy. I asked him again to leave and he started getting more and more aggravated. I took a picture of him and prepared for anything. The police still had me on hold. This was going on for fifteen minutes. I lost it and screamed bloody murder at him to leave. He snickered and slowly left. Then he stood outside right in front of our front door and yelled at guests that were trying to buy stuff. I called my boss and she told me off rudely and then ignored my phone calls and texts. The PPB finally picked up and I told them what was happening. They said they would send someone out. An hour later I was locking up and the guy was gone. PPB never came.

• Violent armed robbery where a pregnant budtender was kicked in her stomach and another budtender was stomped on his back. Two men with guns, masks, and duffle bags made off with top shelf weed and money. Police notified. Report made.

• The Catalytic Converter was stolen off my Jeep while at work. This was on 102nd during a very busy part of the day. There is no way that no one saw them stealing my cat and just looked the other way.

• A younger girl, 21/25 years old, came into my store crying. Her face was swollen and she had what looked like the beginning of a black eye. She used my phone to call someone to help her. I offered an ambulance and she refused. Someone picked her up.

• A man was stabbed with a sharp piece of aluminum from a can of beer. The man refused an ambulance or paramedics and walked off on his own. He is a regular at my shop and was definitely having some issues after this. I believe he self medicated and did his own bandages. A few days after the stabbing he came into the shop and was walking and moving very slowly, he said he was still bleeding.

• A woman regularly shops at my store who talks to herself about people abusing her.

• That same woman comes in and starts talking about people listening to her on the MAX and following her everywhere. She doesn’t outright say that to any of us but mutters this stuff to herself while looking at our menu, making a payment, and browsing the store.

• Middle aged male that is inebriated on some substance. Screaming hard expletives, kicking and punching at the air and walls of the abandoned 7/11, aggressively yelling at and approaching pedestrians, tearing up bushes, climbing on a billboard, running circles in the abandoned parking lot, shadowboxing, and dancing. That same male left for a few hours and came back to the same spot. He began taking his clothes off and is ripping apart a chain link fence. He is now defecating on the back wall of the abandoned 7/11.

• Another man is approaching him and they are yelling at each other. Both appear to be inebriated. One of them has a large speaker that is playing music. It sounds like oldies. They both keep retreating to the inside of a bush and then sitting on the curb together. I am assuming they are doing drugs back there.

• A very young couple, maybe very late teens or early-twenties, were walking up and down the street screaming, shrieking, and hollering at each other. The man was very angry at the woman and was nearly close to striking her a few times. At one point the man took her backpack, unzipped it, and strewn the contents all around the parking lot of the Chinese Restaurant across the street.

• Person stands in front of my driveway and talks to themselves or someone that they can only see. They have a small dog with them and they look like they are barely hanging on to the leash. It’s so sad to see someone in that state with an animal.

• Middle aged male sitting outside of the market on the sidewalk. Partially clothed. Torch in one hand and crack pipe in the other. The crack pipe is crusty with old drugs in it. The man has a stick and he is scraping the crack pipe while laughing and talking to himself. He told me to GIVE him my change when I left the market. I didn’t. Middle aged couple walking down the street yelling at each other and screaming all down the street. Pulling a wagon with a bunch of trashbags full of clothes. Man threw the woman's clothes into the street. The woman picked them up, wrapped them in a tarp, and then continued down the street yelling at the man.

• Middle aged man approached me aggressively while I was walking on the sidewalk. Man asked me for "cigarettes" but I don't smoke cigs. So he called me some ignorant politically incorrect expletives. He followed me and stood across the street from my work yelling curse words and flipping off our building.

• Junkie stands outside of my business and harasses my guests. He was opening and closing our door for them and harassing them to buy weed for him because he has no money or ID. After numerous attempts to come inside our business we threatened to call the police and he left.

• I was standing outside of my house on the sidewalk. I was talking on the phone and smoking a joint. A white guy with a couple of teeth, no shirt, and a shaved head came up to me and stood right behind me almost "nut to butt" then agrilly paced around behind me. He started called me a scumbag and piece of shit. I have never seen this person before. He tried swiping at my phone and I walked away. He started calling me disparaging names and really offensive things. I didn't want to go inside because he would know where I lived. I walked away and called the cops and this guy just paced outside of the house. 911 didn't really help that much. I pretty much got a talking to about it. The guy was gone and vanished. I live sort of close to the MAX so I think some Methed Out Piece of Shit got on the MAX and just wandered off and right up to me.

• A man was yelling at and hitting a woman in our parking lot. There was a young child around 5 - 7 years old that was also being abused. The young child ran to our store for help. A customer had offered to take the woman and child to a safe place to get away from this abuser that was still in our parking lot and now threatening this guest. The abuser then brandished a gun and waved it in the face of the guest that was trying to help. A scuffle broke out and the guest ended up speeding away with the woman and child. The abuser made chase in his car. Portland Police were notified but did nothing aside from take a report. The whole thing was caught on camera.

• Person came in and was gakked out on some drug. They were screaming while talking and trying to conversate and could not keep their voice tone down. They demanded that we keep certain strains in stock and they don’t want to hear the “bullshit” that we try to feed him about availability. We had to ask him to leave the store as he kept slamming his hands on the counter and couldn’t control his voice.

• Man was standing across the street at the entrance to a Chinese Restaurant. The restaurant turned off their Open sign and locked the front door. The man has only boxers on and sneakers. He is dancing around or jumping around in their parking lot and kicking at the wall near the door. After a few minutes he starts smoking something with a torch. Most likely it’s meth. He leaves fairly quickly after that.

• An hour or so later a different man in boxers starts walking up to my business before he just freezes in the middle of the driveway and stands there just staring at the front. After a few moments he walks away putting on a shirt that was on the ground near the apartments next door.

• The woman that comes into our store mumbling just came back in and threw a big trashbag in our ATM trash can for ATM receipts. She called me something and cursed at me while mumbling and muttering to herself. She went outside and pointed to the corner of our parking lot saying something about England. She is presently sitting on our curb.

This is an on-going diary that I have been keeping of all of the crazy stuff I have seen since moving here. Not like, "Oh there are so many homeless people." And more like, "There is a huge mental illness problem in this city." I love this place. Portland is beautiful and it's such an interesting place. I have seen so much beauty here. However, unfortunately I have seen SO MUCH crime or dangerous activites. This list probably doesn't even include half of what I had witnessed. Just when I remembered to document it.

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