A friend sent me a link to this Craigslist rants & raves post - even though he knows I normally stay far away due to the wacky signal to noise ratio.

But since the little boy who’s gone on this MySpace crusade apparently lives in my neighborhood, well…uh, I’ll take a swipe or two.

Sure, we have a growing problem with panhandlers and vagrants in PDX. But this vigilante stoner kid has taken it upon himself to populate his page with pictures of homeless people, including a close-up of one guy who passed out on his lawn. So I have a few questions for him:

* What’s with all the extra time you seem to have available to photograph and/or pester homeless people in your vicinity?
* If you’re so interested in keeping your neighborhood clean (not to mention the fact that playing with a homeless man’s sneakers for hours must mean you don’t have any germ or disease phobias) - why not go around picking up all the trash that floats around here?
* Sooo…alcohol to excess is bad, but glorifying pot smoking by holding up a big ol’ bong front and center is okay?
* Finally, does ridiculing those less fortunate than you are solve anything? Or does it just make you look like a self-centered, immature, more than slightly cretinous jerk?

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