Reading the article, this is the best thing that could have happened. If I lived anywhere near it, I'd be happy to see this.

It makes you wonder how the fire started. Maybe it was one of the savages occupying it, or maybe it was someone else.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/por...oned-bar-went-flames

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McCord said squatters at the building had physically attacked neighbors, threatened people with guns and cut down trees to build fires. The property owners filed a demolition permit in February, the newspaper reported, but were still waiting for city approval

I'd say that much more of the same is called for- the fire, that is.

Back in the early 70's, some squatters...bikers.. took over a house and caused a lot of trouble in the neighborhood.

As time passed, someone waited until they were gone for the day and dynamited the house. End of problem.

Funny how things like that happen.

Portland decades ago perhaps the best mid-sized city in the US. In recent times a disaster at every level with progressive democrats at every level of government. It has also attracted the lunatic left to move there. When the antifa, the military wing of the progressive, burned the courthouses, nailed the doors on the police precinct stations and set fires the elected politicos chanted "it's only property." Today Portland is a filthy drug zone with rampant serious crime. When I occasionally need to go there I think a 10mm is the right carry choice. It's a hopeless situation.

Given the conditions many squatters live in (no electricity, heat, sewerage, or water) a burned out bar might be seen as a step up.

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Originally posted by 41:
Back in the early 70's, some squatters...bikers.. took over a house and caused a lot of trouble in the neighborhood.

As time passed, someone waited until they were gone for the day and dynamited the house. End of problem.

That was in Albany, GA. It was the Outlaws and they outlived their tolerance when they beat an old woman's car with chains. I think it was around 1976 while the mall was being built so they were going to be displaced regardless.

The house got dynamited with them in it.

Sometimes a little scorched earth is the only way.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
The house got dynamited with them in it.

Points for style

This incident was in PA around Scranton, PA IIRC.

Four of us rented a house in Whitemarsh Township with one being a PA State trooper who told of the incident. The investigation didn't get much traction.

Nice house.



People should take care, see that nothin' happens...

If nothing else, it gave the Portland Fire Bureau some good practice for when something important catches on fire. There aren't as many practice burns as there used to be. Not sure why.

Better use of their time than handing out Narcan / Naloxone all night long, which is their typical mission these days, now that hard drugs are legal in Portland

A lot sure has changed since I worked there in 1974. While working for General Research, we designed a computer aided Dispatch Center for the Police/Fire Departments of Portland/ Multnomah County.

The Dispatch Center was located in the Kelly Butte Civil Defense Center. The road going up to the Center in the winter required 4-wheel drive at times.

https://www.oregonencyclopedia...l_area/#.ZEVv9UnMJhE