statistically speaking she should be just fine

what are the chances that she'll be shot on accident twice??

It's totally fine if she wants to be a stubborn biatch, but she's got a dog. Can't put the dog in that kind of environment.
Wha? oh... alright... she's got a baby too. Won't someone think of the children...

...And 37 is too old to have a baby. NEW HEADLINE!
"This biatch is too old to be poppin kids out. Plus, she got shot."

Just as I won't stop cutting through Cheney's backyard as a shortcut.

Submitter obviously has no idea what Portland is like. This is in the (lamely named) "Alberta Arts" district, a rapidly gentrifying area with constantly rising housing prices. Each month sees a trendy new restaurant settle there. That's not to say there aren't problems, but calling this a "tough" area is fairly absurd, given the actual tough areas in places like Philly, D.C., etc. Hell, there are far tougher areas in Portland.

/rant

That neighborhood ain't so rough, folks. There are safer ones, but Portland overall isn't too crimey anyway.

/former PDX denizen

There are "rough neighborhoods" in freaking PORTLAND? That must be where the black guy lives.

"walks the next day" - HOORAY what a bad emm effing chick

"with her 17 month old son" - What a dumb biatch

I don't think she would be so tough if that stray bullet hit her in the spine...she has a kid! move...

In defense of the questioning of Portland area's "roughness", lemme just say that I used to walk through the ghettoest parts of San Diego (12th and imperial and the barrio, etc.), and have never been caught by a stray bullet.

Someone arrest the stray bullet that shot this woman!

With her purse that says "Bad Motherfarker" on it.

I was not aware that daily toughness awards were given out. Is that a Total Fark thing?

That headilne is like, two sentences in one maaaaaan.

Oh, so you got shot by a random bullet and stayed in the neighborhood?

Say hello to practically every other person who did the same thing but DIDN'T get a friggin newspaper article written about it.

/goddamn white women being the center of attention and all...

She's heard gunfire nearly every other week since moving into the area from Southeast Portland eight years ago.

You couldn't pay me enough to live anywhere where you gunfire twenty-six times a year. That's not the wrong side of the tracks. That's a farking war zone.

Was she walking or running? I know the headline is running but...

NOPO biatches

I'd hit it.

You have nothing to worry about, gwydion56, because I've actually sat down and contemplated the word "the" for 10 minutes before.

/don't ask
//then again, go right ahead

Even though she is probably scared, she loves taking that walk so much that she won't quit. I like that. HERO tag

Her husband's name is "Trace Salmon".

/now with delicious mercury!

It was an insignificant bullet.

Jument: You couldn't pay me enough to live anywhere where you gunfire twenty-six times a year. That's not the wrong side of the tracks. That's a farking war zone.

The problem is that most people who live in those sorts of neighbourhoods don't get paid enough to live anywhere else. It isn't usually a selling point.

I was expecting this to be Detroit.

Stickdeath: You have nothing to worry about, gwydion56, because I've actually sat down and contemplated the word "the" for 10 minutes before.

/don't ask
//then again, go right ahead


OK then, why?

It's these americans who are unwilling to cave into the violent bulliying that make communities safe. Rather than run and hide behind locked doors citizens like her who face violence and refuse to turn and run, who refuse to change their daily living, is what combats rising violence.

Why doesnt Oregon have its own tag? I though that we earned it after those dumb@ass meth-heads got trapped in their RV for a week.

/embarrassed to say I live in Oregon
//at least I am not from Oregon

Stickdeath: ...I've actually sat down and contemplated the word "the" for 10 minutes before.

That, right there, is dedicated.

Good for her. I used to volunteer building a youth safehouse / activity center in Detroit when I was in high school, and I was amazed at the monks/nuns/etc. who never even thought twice about going out into the neighborhood, or leaving the area.

It's people like this who keep the place going until it becomes safer to live in. Then more hip. Then gentrification.

Common sense is one thing (idiot woman who got three bikes stolen one-after-the-other because she couldn't believe someone would do that, I'm lookin' at you*), but you gotta live your life and all. Not leaving your house except in your car isn't really living. Even if you're in the suburbs.

* Oh, Ann Arbor Observer, the stories you report slay me.

2006-03-30 06:08:46 PM JohnGaltDiscGolfer

I was expecting this to be Detroit.

Oh, and my timing. Y'know, for the good part of my youth I spent at my grandmother's or friend's houses (8 mile and Gratiot / decently south on Mound Rd / Hamtramck / etc), or downtown when I finally got a car and started going to concerts weekly, I've never heard a shot in Detroit. I've had some annoying / bordering on frightening panhandlers hasseling me, and that's about it. It isn't the safest place in the world, but I've definitely been in more f-cked up situations in other cities than I ever have in Detroit. Hell, I've been in more f-cked up situations (or near them) in Warren. If you're not living in the midst of it and have an ounce of street smarts, it's fine.

/why do I bother

This was like 10 blocks from my house.

I haven't heard that much gunfire the last few years, but spring time is just around the corner.

I like the part where she got shot in Northeast Portland, and all the sidebar ads were for houses across the state line in Vancouver. For the people who aren't as heroic/stupid/brave/etc. as her.

Stickdeath, have you ever really thought about the word "let's"?

Let us go to the park!

Let us go get something to eat!

Doesn't it seem like there should be a better word for saying, "I think we should go do this.", instead of "let us"?

It's either radically formal (say it in a british accent), or it's like you're asking for permission from a third party. It doesn't make any sense to me.

Let us all contemplate it!

Jument

You couldn't pay me enough to live anywhere where you gunfire twenty-six times a year. That's not the wrong side of the tracks. That's a farking war zone.

In a war zone you would be glad to just have small arms fire. When guys in the "bad part of town" start setting up mortars and calling indirect fire attacks, then you can call it a war zone.

There are "rough neighborhoods" in freaking PORTLAND? That must be where the black guy lives.

More like where the TrailJailblazers live. Little know fact is that you have to have at least one felony to play for them.

I'd just like to say that the headline for this Fark article is horribly, horribly phrased.

You can go back to your regularly scheduled flamewars now. :)

She's not playing the game properly. She's supposed to make everyone panic, hide in fear every time they see someone and stock up on guns for when the mutants kick in their doors. When will people ever learn?

dudemanbro BTW Alberta really is a nice neighborhood. How many "rough" neighborhoods do you know of that have wine bars, art galleries and expensive restaurants?

Those restaurants are pretty tough, so tough that I once got a broken leg of lamb ...

/ I'll be here all week in CYBERspace

Lemme guess, had she been a guy, the tag would have read "hero".

If you dropped the worst, poorest, scariest neighborhood in Portland, Oregon dead center in the middle of the worst part of Detroit, it would be like taking a hissing, cute little fluffy kitten who believes he's a fierce tiger - and dropping it in the middle of a pack of snarling pack of big dogs.

/NEWS FLASH! Someone jaywalked in Lake Oswego! It's a CRIME WAVE!
//Lake Oswego = snooty, uppercrust, full-of-itself Portland suburb
///triple-slashy

She blamed the shooting on a society that has sanctioned the ownership of too many guns and allowed poverty to fester.

Then she said "...*snicker*...hahahaha! No, seriously, I hope the fry that motherf@#ker."

What is this, National Fark Awards Made Up On the Spot At Fark Day? On Fark? Today?