Portland

[The Johnny]

TGGR, you ever been to the DF, Mexico? Either way, how would you appraise it in terms of high weirdness?

My personal survival method is to not go outside beyond 11pm (perhaps to go to nearby 24 hour stores, but NEVAR one hour before or after 2pm, which is when the true darkness reigns)

[East Coast Hustle]

i'm pretty sure, roger, if you keep following the rabbit hole all the way down to the bottom, you will eventually find yourself in detroit.

I'll second this. But Detroit doesn't have the good kind of sickness. Most of the fun you can have in Detroit isn't BADWRONG, it's just bad.

I have a few pretty fucked-up Detroit/Pontiac stories. Maybe in the next day or two I'll post the story of One-Eyed Dave.

[Triple Zero]

Sometimes people go missing in Portland, and sometimes they find TOO MANY bodies.  Or, to be specific, bodies that they can't match to a missing person report.  These bodies are called "floaters", and they happen when someone decides they have a need to step off of one of the many convenient bridges that are there for that purpose.

If the currents don't drag them away past Astoria, they wind up in eddy pools after being dragged along the bottom on their faces.  When you get them back, they have no face, no teeth, no fingerprints, and usually no remaining tattoos and/or scars.  Given that the city no longer has the cash to run DNA tests, the bodies remain unidentified, and are sent up the stack of the morgue's incinerator a year later.

So you have some missing people, and some found people...and either way, their families never learn what happened to them.

got this via the "unusual wiki articles" list, relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globster


and Nigel, sorry if this is a dumb question, but in your story, the "neighbours" want the house prices to go up, so they are worth more than they paid for, and they can leave. I assume by selling the houses at a profit? but on the other hand, if house prices go up, it will also cause Old Lady Mabel to leave because property taxes will go up. Why are higher house prices advantageous for the "neighbours" but not for Old Lady Mabel? Does she have a different deal than the "neighbours"?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

TGGR, you ever been to the DF, Mexico? Either way, how would you appraise it in terms of high weirdness?

My personal survival method is to not go outside beyond 11pm (perhaps to go to nearby 24 hour stores, but NEVAR one hour before or after 2pm, which is when the true darkness reigns)

I have been many places in Mexico, back when I worked for a cargo airline.

But I know not this "DF".  What does that stand for?

[LMNO]

Nigel, I really liked the understated irony in your piece, how you never explicitly called out the hypocrisy in the so-called "green" yuppies, but showed it clearly anyway.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Nigel, I really liked the understated irony in your piece, how you never explicitly called out the hypocrisy in the so-called "green" yuppies, but showed it clearly anyway.

Yeah, I dug the hell out of that.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Nigel, I really liked the understated irony in your piece, how you never explicitly called out the hypocrisy in the so-called "green" yuppies, but showed it clearly anyway.

Yeah, I dug the hell out of that.

Thanks, guys!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Sometimes people go missing in Portland, and sometimes they find TOO MANY bodies.  Or, to be specific, bodies that they can't match to a missing person report.  These bodies are called "floaters", and they happen when someone decides they have a need to step off of one of the many convenient bridges that are there for that purpose.

If the currents don't drag them away past Astoria, they wind up in eddy pools after being dragged along the bottom on their faces.  When you get them back, they have no face, no teeth, no fingerprints, and usually no remaining tattoos and/or scars.  Given that the city no longer has the cash to run DNA tests, the bodies remain unidentified, and are sent up the stack of the morgue's incinerator a year later.

So you have some missing people, and some found people...and either way, their families never learn what happened to them.

got this via the "unusual wiki articles" list, relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globster


and Nigel, sorry if this is a dumb question, but in your story, the "neighbours" want the house prices to go up, so they are worth more than they paid for, and they can leave. I assume by selling the houses at a profit? but on the other hand, if house prices go up, it will also cause Old Lady Mabel to leave because property taxes will go up. Why are higher house prices advantageous for the "neighbours" but not for Old Lady Mabel? Does she have a different deal than the "neighbours"?

Because the neighbors bought their houses at market peak, before the recession, so they now owe more than they could sell them for. Mabel bought her house 40 years ago for less than ten grand, and it's paid off. Her only expenses are property taxes and utilities. She is on a very small fixed income, and if her property taxes get too high, she won't be able to pay them, and will be forced to sell.

The comparatively affluent neighbors, on the other hand, who paid upwards of 300k for their houses, could either use the value increase to get out from under their mortgages, or might even accrue enough equity to refinance and cash out to buy a new car. A couple thousand a year in increased property taxes is nothing to them. They'd spend that much on shoes.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Remember all the feet fount in BC last year?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severed_feet_discovery

It's not about Portland, but it makes me think about all the people here who walk into the ocean and never come back.

[Eater of Clowns]

Nigel, just got around to that one, it's excellent.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Nigel, just got around to that one, it's excellent.

Thank you. What the hell is that thing in your avatar, it's adorable/creepy!

[Eater of Clowns]

Nigel, just got around to that one, it's excellent.

Thank you. What the hell is that thing in your avatar, it's adorable/creepy!

I have no idea.  I googled Cheshire Cat because I figured I could get a good result for a grinning avatar.  That thing popped up.  I had no choice.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Remember all the feet fount in BC last year?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severed_feet_discovery

It's not about Portland, but it makes me think about all the people here who walk into the ocean and never come back.

Ever think they might not have had a choice?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Remember all the feet fount in BC last year?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severed_feet_discovery

It's not about Portland, but it makes me think about all the people here who walk into the ocean and never come back.

Ever think they might not have had a choice?

Of course they don't have a choice. They see the mud flats and the rocks and they think they can make it to the rocks and they don't understand about the mud flats or the tides or the waves.

[The Johnny]

TGGR, you ever been to the DF, Mexico? Either way, how would you appraise it in terms of high weirdness?

My personal survival method is to not go outside beyond 11pm (perhaps to go to nearby 24 hour stores, but NEVAR one hour before or after 2pm, which is when the true darkness reigns)

I have been many places in Mexico, back when I worked for a cargo airline.

But I know not this "DF".  What does that stand for?

Its Distrito Federal, the thread sunk and i just saw your reply

BUT AFF you wont see this till like in 2 weeks