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[JACKspASS]

Cracker Bar near Sultan had some good camps and drug deal hang outs.

Had to tip toe through a few of them back in the day, I still can't believe I never had a break in there. It was depressing to see, and the VERY few times I experienced good fishing there, made it worth it. Walking out of cracker bar with a 8lb chrome hatchery steelhead is a nice memory for me, it only happened a couple times, the old timers would laugh at me

 

[Coach Potter]

The park’s population peaked at 5,500 in August 1974 and a full time nurse is brought in to handle assorted medical issues.

People's Park: Expo '74 and Riverfront Park

Once an Indian winter camp, this area where Hangman Creek (Latah Creek) and the Spokane River merge has been a popular site for campers, transients, and picnickers. According to Curly Jim, from the…

spokanehistorical.org

That’s not what’s going on in Spokane now…

 

[Kilchis]

How is it the so called homeless acquire so much shit? If they have no jobs or income where do all the tarps, tents, bicycles, etc. come from?

Multnomah County in Oregon purchased over 22,000 tents and 65,000+ tarps for distribution to derelicts. That's where the junkies get part of their shit. More is handed out by co-dependent do-gooders. In my community cars and bicycles are considered fair game and liberated daily. It's time to reopen state institutions to house the mentally ill who cannot care for themselves. As for the junkies, fuck 'em. I don't buy into the new America that thinks everybody is a victim and no-one is responsible for themselves. Life is full of choices and choices have consequences.

 

[Roper]

Multnomah County in Oregon purchased over 22,000 tents and 65,000+ tarps for distribution to derelicts. That's where the junkies get part of their shit. More is handed out by co-dependent do-gooders. In my community cars and bicycles are considered fair game and liberated daily. It's time to reopen state institutions to house the mentally ill who cannot care for themselves. As for the junkies, fuck 'em. I don't buy into the new America that thinks everybody is a victim and no-one is responsible for themselves. Life is full of choices and choices have consequences.

FFS, do these do-gooders think they’re helping? Really? Sounds like enabling to me…

 

[clarkman]

Guess I'll just continue "enabling" folks who can't help themselves where I'm able while some folks keep generalizing the entire homeless population as druggies and theives, so just " fuck em all, right?". Sorry, but I was raised to have compassion towards others. Let me guess, the first question you ask when someone is assaulted is, "well, what were they wearing?"....

I'm not sure when showing compassion to other humans became such a controversial topic, but here we are.

That's about all I have to say about this....not sure why I wasted my time getting sucked into ridiculousness such as this....but I did.

 

[Anonymous member 148]

Lots of seemingly complex problems have simple solutions but simple usually equates to hard…we don’t seem to like hard. It’s difficult for me to imagine that drug addiction isn’t the root cause of much of the homelessness. People have been falling on hard times forever. It didn’t turn into this until the last 7-10 years. I would be curious to know how many addicts got their first fix from a doctor?

No one's getting anything from Dr's anymore. I got 50 5mg oxy pills, with no refills for open heart surgery, then they tell you take Tylenol. I'm quite uncomfortable right now and am seriously considering trying my hand and making some poppy tea. It's a gray area and patients could go either way but it pisses me off I have to be so uncomfortable because everyone is afraid to treat patients pain. My first surgery I got twice the amount of pain killers as this time, including morphine pills.

 

[Rob Allen]

Multnomah County in Oregon purchased over 22,000 tents and 65,000+ tarps for distribution to derelicts. That's where the junkies get part of their shit. More is handed out by co-dependent do-gooders. In my community cars and bicycles are considered fair game and liberated daily. It's time to reopen state institutions to house the mentally ill who cannot care for themselves. As for the junkies, fuck 'em. I don't buy into the new America that thinks everybody is a victim and no-one is responsible for themselves. Life is full of choices and choices have consequences.

I tend to agree, but I also believe in compassion. Those who want up and out of homelessness and are willing to put effort into trying should get assistance.
(Not necessarily expensive government assistance but assistance provided by those who have such passions)

Now , back to fishing content..

 

[flybill]

Guess I'll just continue "enabling" folks who can't help themselves where I'm able while some folks keep generalizing the entire homeless population as druggies and theives, so just " fuck em all, right?". Sorry, but I was raised to have compassion towards others. Let me guess, the first question you ask when someone is assaulted is, "well, what were they wearing?"....

I'm not sure when showing compassion to other humans became such a controversial topic, but here we are.

That's about all I have to say about this....not sure why I wasted my time getting sucked into ridiculousness such as this....but I did.

I've volunteered at a number of food banks in the past 10 years.. one in downtown Seattle handing out stuff to many.. there are the drug addicts and lots of scammers, just coming down for something free.. but for the truely homeless there were some eye opening moments.

There was a 5 or 10 lb bag of mashed potatoes that I though people would want. I found out it was just to heavy to carry around with all of there worldly possessions and necessary items to move around town.

The problem is mental health.. yes, drugs too, but many of these people are just in a bad spot and trying to figure out how to get back on there feet! No easy answers.. I also met a woman on the Yakima river, that helps the homeless in her area. She's amazing, I friended her on FB.. I couldn't do what she does, but she spends a lot of time with people in the camps and sees more than I can imagine.

 

[Coach Potter]

No one's getting anything from Dr's anymore. I got 50 5mg oxy pills, with no refills for open heart surgery, then they tell you take Tylenol. I'm quite uncomfortable right now and am seriously considering trying my hand and making some poppy tea. It's a gray area and patients could go either way but it pisses me off I have to be so uncomfortable because everyone is afraid to treat patients pain. My first surgery I got twice the amount of pain killers as this time, including morphine pills.

I’m sorry to hear that you’re in that much pain.

 

[flybill]

This took the group of us maybe 30 minutes.. couldn't get all of the big stuff! Filled my friends full sized truck bed! Sad it was probably back to when we started in a few days or a week at most! Why can't the fuckers who bring the garbage back out.. yeah, I know why.. it's just fucking lame! This was 2012? Will check the timestamp on the picture... actually I had my Dan Bailey waders, before I tore them on a barbed wire fence.. so probably longer..

Grabbed this picture from the old site, and it looks like they've converted all of our photo files to a .webp file extension that we can't upload here.. so downloaded Corel Paintshop (free edition) to open the file, save as a .jpg.. easy to do, but a pain in the ass.. going to go and download and delete all of my stuff off of the old WFF.com site.. trying to figure out and easy way, hopefully I can just drag and drop albums.. not optimistic though!

 

[Billy]

I have concerns that these new drugs featuring blends with fentayl, meth, heroine and so on permanently cause enough brain structure changes that recovery is near impossible after maybe even 1 use. The person will never be the same. It truly is like a different class of humans being created.

The addiction epidemic is crippling our society and it doesn't really matter what it is. I've seen so many lately around the age of 40 with pending death from alcohol induced liver failure that most wouldn't believe it and it's a completely legal substance pimped out at every commercial break...

I wish I had answers. Some sort of cultural change/movement is needed but it seems impossible. It's heart breaking.

 

[Evan B]

I absolutely have compassion for my fellow man, but that also extends to empathy and compassion for everyone else who has to deal with the effects of this. I mean people who constantly have their properties damaged, trashed, posessions/cars stolen, attacked by unhinged people, etc (I've personally experienced all of those things in the last few years). So compassion does need to go beyond just the ones getting the free tarps and tents.

There are enough resources for people who truly want to get off the street to seek out. They might need some guidance to get there, but it exists. But there are a WHOLE LOT of them who don't want to climb out of it, don't want help, and don't want to live the lives you and I live.

 

[FinLuver]

Guess I'll just continue "enabling" folks who can't help themselves where I'm able while some folks keep generalizing the entire homeless population as druggies and theives, so just " fuck em all, right?". Sorry, but I was raised to have compassion towards others. Let me guess, the first question you ask when someone is assaulted is, "well, what were they wearing?"....

I'm not sure when showing compassion to other humans became such a controversial topic, but here we are.

That's about all I have to say about this....not sure why I wasted my time getting sucked into ridiculousness such as this....but I did.

Is it compassionate to enable and have people live in squalor?

 

[Dustin Chromers]

. This problem isn't half as complicated as some are making it out to be.

You don't feed wildlife because you don't want dependant problem wildlife. Injured wildlife gets care then released. Problem wildlife gets dealt with. Why are we abandoning these good sense measures to deal with people? All the same mechanisms apply. This everyone is a victim shit is wrecking any chance at actual victims getting real help near impossible. We are concentrating on the feral lawless assholes and not those who want and need help.

 

[HauntedByWaters]

I could win this one but all my favourite garbage camps are occupied and I don't like to get close enough to smell them.

I think people are over thinking this problem. It flat never used to be acceptable. Now we accept it. If you wanted to fix it you would employ simple solutions..I don't care how complex you feel the problem is. Simple solutions work but the current social environment won't allow it.. Hell in my town businesses get hate for kicking people off their front alcove who are shitting there. How ironically insane is that. We as an empathetic and socially l loving accepting society have decided that it's cool if we are shit upon. Oh and others can be shit upon as well. That's progress with zero standards. It's great.

We have empathy for the powerless and yet zero empathy for ordinary folks.

 

[SSPey]

There are enough resources for people who truly want to get off the street to seek out. They might need some guidance to get there, but it exists. But there are a WHOLE LOT of them who don't want to climb out of it, don't want help, and don't want to live the lives you and I live.

Resources exist, but a lot of folks with mental illness and addiction don’t know what’s good for them. It is easy to get lost in our individualist cutthroat society. It takes an army of social workers / compassionate cops going around, meeting people, and gaining trust to get some of these people off the streets. It is easy for those of us without these problems to envision what it takes to be strong and alert enough to make that decision. Many in the gutter simply don’t have that ability.

 

[Evan B]

Resources exist, but a lot of folks with mental illness and addiction don’t know what’s good for them. It is easy to get lost in our individualist cutthroat society. It takes an army of social workers / compassionate cops going around, meeting people, and gaining trust to get some of these people off the streets. It is easy for those of us without these problems to envision what it takes to be strong and alert enough to make that decision. Many in the gutter simply don’t have that ability.

Indeed, which is why I said some need assistance navigating that. This is also something that exists more in major metro areas than in less populated areas, so mileage may vary.

 

[HauntedByWaters]

No one's getting anything from Dr's anymore. I got 50 5mg oxy pills, with no refills for open heart surgery, then they tell you take Tylenol. I'm quite uncomfortable right now and am seriously considering trying my hand and making some poppy tea. It's a gray area and patients could go either way but it pisses me off I have to be so uncomfortable because everyone is afraid to treat patients pain. My first surgery I got twice the amount of pain killers as this time, including morphine pills.

Plus it’s meth. Opiates are a problem but meth is the real scourge IMO.

 

[mcswny]

This took the group of us maybe 30 minutes.. couldn't get all of the big stuff! Filled my friends full sized truck bed! Sad it was probably back to when we started in a few days or a week at most! Why can't the fuckers who bring the garbage back out.. yeah, I know why.. it's just fucking lame! This was 2012? Will check the timestamp on the picture... actually I had my Dan Bailey waders, before I tore them on a barbed wire fence.. so probably longer..

Grabbed this picture from the old site, and it looks like they've converted all of our photo files to a .webp file extension that we can't upload here.. so downloaded Corel Paintshop (free edition) to open the file, save as a .jpg.. easy to do, but a pain in the ass.. going to go and download and delete all of my stuff off of the old WFF.com site.. trying to figure out and easy way, hopefully I can just drag and drop albums.. not optimistic though!View attachment 48238

@flybill Totally off topic, but if you just take that .webp and rename the extension to .jpg you should be good sans photoshop/paint/etc.
You just need to right click -> rename (at least on a mac, i'm sure its similar on a windows).

 

[Evan B]

@flybill Totally off topic, but if you just take that .webp and rename the extension to .jpg you should be good sans photoshop/paint/etc.
You just need to right click -> rename (at least on a mac, i'm sure its similar on a windows).

Same in Linux!

(even though I'm probably the only Linux user here... except for Billy who I set up on Linux because I'm like that)