{"id":11661,"date":"2013-10-10T02:44:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T09:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=11661"},"modified":"2014-05-21T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T20:42:12","slug":"travel-advisory-aberdeen-washington-unsafe-any-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/travel-advisory-aberdeen-washington-unsafe-any-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Advisory \u2013 Aberdeen, Washington Unsafe @ Any Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"

from<\/em> Montesano Today<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Tom Frederiksen<\/p>\n

Aberdeen, WA. —\u00a0Montesano Today [area blog] is forced to issue the following travel advisory for travel in and around the Aberdeen Washington area until further notice.\u00a0 As recently reported in the\u00a0Aberdeen Daily World,\u00a0<\/a>the city parks are now completely unsafe for adults or children due to the hypodermic needles discarded by drug users.<\/p>\n

Dismayed residents gathered before the deaf eared Aberdeen city council relating their concern that the recent push by police to move the vagrants, prostitutes, and drug users off the downtown streets has only moved them into the residential neighborhoods. And the problem is growing.<\/p>\n

Frightened Aberdeen city residents are now arming themselves with handguns against the drug users and vagrants who are becoming more aggressive, as reported in the Daily World.<\/p>\n

Repeated crime associated with the drug users and vagrants has made a trip into the Wal Mart shopping section hazardous.\u00a0 Travelers are advised to lock their doors and windows, especially women traveling alone, when exiting the shopping center as vagrants are pushing themselves into vehicles in attempts to demand and extort money.<\/p>\n

Prostitutes and beggars wander the parking areas, approaching people exiting their cars,\u00a0\"Unknown\"<\/a><\/p>\n

demanding money; reports of cars being keyed for not paying are common.<\/p>\n

Avoid all ATM machines!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many Montesano residents, myself included, do not let our wives and daughters shop in Aberdeen due to the threats to their safely without our accompaniment currently. \u00a0Due to the continuing and increasing violence and threats that traveling through or shopping in the city creates, we advise joining Elma and start using the facilities available in Olympia.<\/p>\n

Residents in Aberdeen continue to wonder why the situation is and has de<\/strong>teriorated to the point that many in the meetings with the City Council referenced \u201cmoving to Montesano\u201d to get away from it.\u00a0 Unable to stop electing the same individuals to office, and expecting different results\u2026.. they seem perplexed.\u00a0 Unable to help themselves.<\/p>\n

Montesano residents are advised to be on the look out for Aberdeen residents trying to escape.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Sept 30th 2013 \u00a0Apparently it is getting worse. \u00a0Now the vagrants are peering into windows. \u00a0One of the reasons Aberdeen is in the state it is in was on the radio this morning claiming the solution is to keep an eye on them. \u00a0Right Alice\u2026\u2026congratulations on twenty years in the Aberdeen Council correcting the problem. \u00a0You Aberdeen residents should return her to office this election\u2026..I am sure she will do better now. \u00a0Right. \u00a0What a joke.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: Oct 3rd 20123 \u2013 It got worse. \u00a0In a failed attempt to justify the money their department receives, the\"0206dde54824ef5198fbd3ce422303cc\"<\/a>director of Grays Harbor Public Health, Joan Brewster, \u00a0released an op-ed today (DW this date) \u00a0about the number of nice shiny new needles they trade out through her office into the community\u2026.and I quote\u201d \u00a0\u201d550,000 needles so far this year\u201d. \u00a0That\u2019s right, your county government is putting out over a half million of them\u2026well, more as it\u2019s only October and the party season is coming up. \u00a0 My advice for traveling to Aberdeen\u2026.if you must.<\/em>\u2026watch where you step and don\u2019t touch anything. \u00a0Rather than address the problem, they are baking the drug users a cake\u2026..expect more coming \u2013 Aberdeen has the welcome mat out. \u00a0 There are millions of needles around that place as a result of the city catering to them. \u00a0As one reader wrote me, \u201cwe don\u2019t need protection from the Aberdeen drug users, we need protection from the County Health Department\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The county cares so much about these people they say they must help them with free needles. \u00a0don\u2019t die today\u2026.just die a little bit today\u2026.and some more tomorrow\u2026.here we will help you\u2026\u2026\u00a0<\/em>No one would treat an animal this way, yet \u2013 the City of Aberdeen does.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 9 Oct 2013 –\u00a0we have received so many letters from Montesano residents expressing similar concerns about shopping in Aberdeen due to the safety, that we are relating a public service announcement:<\/p>\n

MONTESANO RESIDENTS SHOPPING CONVOY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Montesano residents that must visit the Wal Mart shopping area are advised that a formal convoy for Saturday shopping trips will meet at the West freeway entrance in Montesano at 10:00 am. \u00a0The convoy will proceed to a secure parking area in Aberdeen where volunteers will watch the vehicles. \u00a0Departure from the lot back to Montesano at 12 noon sharp. \u00a0Those that miss the departure are advised to travel out of the parking lot with caution and proceed directly out of the city. \u00a0Lock all windows and doors!<\/p>\n

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NOTE 9 Oct 2013. \u00a0I\u00a0don\u2019t usually comment on these things, but today the Facebook community (I don\u2019t do FB) apparently picked up on this column here in the Harbor. Where we usually receive about 500 or so visitors daily, being a small local focus blog, today \u2013 as of this writing, we expect about 25-30,000 individual visitors during this 24 hour period, a bit of a jump in traffic–hit a nerve Aberdeen? \u00a0Along with this kind of traffic comes the expected mail. \u00a0I will respond as follows from the few complaints. \u00a0Save your writing to me. I didn\u2019t give your city parks to the drug users over your children. It wasn\u2019t me that made the decision to turn your shopping areas into crime zones that any husband or father would warn his family about or feel uneasy about letting them shop there. \u00a0It wasn\u2019t me that filled your city sewer systems with used needles that flood to the surface covering your town during heavy rains. \u00a0And it isn\u2019t me handing out close to a million free new needles into your community. \u00a0That would be your county health department under the nose and with the support of your city leaders.<\/p>\n

You might, however, write your city council members, Mayor, and police department who have made the choice that you and your family are unimportant. \u00a0How a community could sacrifice their public parks and areas to drug users and vagrants over their children is beyond me. \u00a0How a community could return any of them to office only serves as a public policy example of a failed community. \u00a0Frankly, the County Commissioners should abate the entire place and put it under county authority. \u00a0Aberdeen is a failed city. \u00a0And I stand by that statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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