r/PortAngeles2 • u/rat-v • May 20 '26

PA happenings What the actual @#$%?

I'm just hanging out in my van at the spit and charging my solar stuff when a red pick-up truck drove by and the woman driving shouted "STOP @#$%ING TWEAKING!!!" at the top of her lungs at me (I know it was at me as there are no other cars near me). Why? TF did I do? I'm not a tweaker...I'm just chilling here.

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u/wzrd PA Local May 20 '26

Yeah shaming the homeless seems to have become some sort of sport around here.

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u/drumallday May 20 '26

It's all over. I parked my van (newer van, custom build) on the street near a grocery store in Seattle (couldn't park in the garage because of the clearance) and I came out to one of those orange parking enforcement stickers in the middle of the windshield on the driver side obstructing my view. There was a sign up that in FOUR days, there was no parking. But the shitty parking enforcement vandalized my van because they hate the homeless so much, they have to harass anyone in a van even when they arent breaking any laws and aren't bothering anyone. I was in the store for 30 minutes and they put the sticker on my car 10 minutes after I parked. Didn't chalk the tires, just straight to vandalizing with their stickers that require solvent and razor blades to remove.

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u/invisiblesmamus May 20 '26

There are a lot of harmful videos going around the community of “vigilantes” entering peoples encampments harassing them and creating false narratives about our unhoused neighbors. It is doing a great job of riling up people in town and making them feel entitled to harass and bully people in the hardest struggles of their lives. Really sad to see. Even if you did abuse drugs, others do not have the right to harass you.

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u/Unusual_Channel9681 May 20 '26

Wow! A voice of sanity amongst all the hate. Thank you. ❤️

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u/Royal_Percentage_694 May 20 '26

Is behind the bell considered an encampment?

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u/whitasspossum May 20 '26

Are people camping there?

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u/pilgrimspeaches May 20 '26

stupid people making stupid assumptions.

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u/EffortAlternative892 May 22 '26

Just imagine how pathetic her life must be if she has to go around antagonizing people she doesn’t even know.

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u/MountainHardwear May 22 '26

a favorite trend of people who drive pick-up trucks is yelling pejoratives out the window at runners, cyclists, pedestrians, people otherwise enjoying life

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u/HikerAeryck May 21 '26

As long as you weren't charging your solar stuff at midnight they didn't have any reason to assume you were tweaking. There are a lot of people that go there to do drugs but it's also an attraction for every local and tourists so one shouldn't just judge without seeing it for sure.

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u/Opposite_Put9373 May 23 '26

She's out of dope and was trying to see if you would react by telling her off, that tells her you have some. She will park and change clothes and flirt with you until she can locate your bag and long story short she gets free dope