http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Oregon Wed, 22 May 2013 02:53:32 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Oregon Mon, 20 May 2013 11:02:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ba2_1369061424 dingledd SHARK'S video of horse tripping at the 2012 Big Loop Rodeo inspired Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton to introduce a horse-tripping ban. . (JORDAN VALLEY, OR) - On Saturday May 18th, 2013, SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) volunteer Adam Fahnestock was peacefully sitting monitoring the Big Loop Rodeo when rodeo personnel and a Malheur County Sheriff's deputy approached him. After a very brief conversation, the deputy suddenly grabbed Fahnestock and threw him violently to the ground where rodeo personnel then also set upon him. Fahnestock was arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. He is currently being held in Malheur County Jail, Vale, OR on a $1,000 bail. Big Loop Rodeo has been under fire from SHARK recently after documentation of a bucking horse breaking its leg in the arena and numerous horses were filmed crashing to the ground was released after the 2012 rodeo. Filming is permitted at the rodeo and many spectators film the events. It is believed Fahnestock was singled out for attack because Big Loop Rodeo officials are upset over the video of a horse breaking its leg being released, and disturbing footage of the horse-tripping event went viral creating massive public outcry to ban the event. SHARK president, Steve Hindi said, "This is clearly an abuse of the law and an example of the "good old-boy network" that exists in the rodeo world. We will fight these false and retaliatory charges vigorously and continue to expose animal abuse at rodeos." SHARK'S video of horse tripping at the 2012 Big Loop Rodeo inspired Sen. Mark Hass, D-Beaverton to introduce a horse-tripping ban. Senate Bill 835 is currently being considered after a public hearing was held on Monday May 13th, 2013. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ba2_1369061424 dingledd Shark Volunteer Violently Arrested For Filming At <span class="highlight">Oregon</span> Rodeo oregon,big loop rodeo,cruelty,horse tripping, arrest,shark Thu, 16 May 2013 18:01:57 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b1a_1368741534 star53 A Portland, Oregon, police officer was recently pursuing a traffic violator with lights on and sirens blaring, but put his mission on hold to - wait for it - help a mother duck and her ducklings in the middle of the road. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b1a_1368741534 star53 The Cutest Police Chase You May Ever See: Cop Halts Pursuit for...Duck Crossing Police Chase,Cop Halts Pursuit,Duck Crossing,Portland Oregon Wed, 15 May 2013 18:56:58 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1b2_1368658276 sakb A feel good alternative to yesterday's featured video where a mother duck gets run over. The Portland Police Service released a video showing Officer Mark James interrupting his pursuit of a speeder to help a mother duck get to the side of the road. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1b2_1368658276 sakb Portland Police Officer Interrupts Pursuit to Help Family of Ducks police, portland, oregon, car, highway, rain, cruiser, dash, cam, animals Thu, 16 May 2013 19:53:32 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ee_1368747731 Chuppacobra Went camping 6 years back with a small group of friends in the high desert of Oregon. A gentleman named Jack brought a pair of $20 speakers from The Goodwill for sacrifice...... The last night there, we had that sacrifice..... to the Great Ones! One entire week of great food, great music and great company. It was guys week and the women were left behind. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ee_1368747731 Chuppacobra The Burning Ring of Fire elvis, cash, fire, camping, weed, schrooms, LSD, where is my tent? Wed, 15 May 2013 04:47:04 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e69_1368606846 Setanta Video is an interview with the guy, no accident footage. A man less than two weeks into a 10,000-mile journey for charity to dribble a soccer ball from his home city of Seattle to Brazil has died after being struck by a car. Richard Swanson, 42, was struck as he walked on the shoulder of a road on the outskirts of Lincoln just east of the Oregon coast, about 250 miles into his trip. Poor bastard. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e69_1368606846 Setanta Soccer fan dribbles ball from Seattle to Brazil, almost Soccer charity accident Fri, 10 May 2013 20:46:07 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=978_1368232905 echo4250 This is what competition looks like : One health insurer wants to charge $169 a month next year to cover a 40-year-old Portland-area non-smoker. Another wants $422 a month for the same standard plan. The new health insurance marketplace envisioned by federal health reforms doesn't formally kick in until fall. But it already is taking shape - and consumers for the first time can compare, premium by premium, identical plans by different insurers. Soon they'll be able to compare benefit-by-benefit as well. On Thursday, a comparison of proposed 2014 health premiums became public online, causing two insurers to request do-overs to lower their rates even before the state determines whether they're justified. The unusual development was sparked by a comparison that used to be impossible because plan benefits varied so widely. But under the federal reforms that take effect Jan. 1, health insurance is mandated and every insurer must offer certain standard plans. More >> Find the proposed rates for 2014 health plans in your area. Continuing coverage of efforts to reform health care in Oregon. Starting in October, the change will drive competition in a health insurance marketplace called Cover Oregon where individual consumers and small business owners can comparison shop. Though the state's comparison charts are far less detailed, they foreshadow what Cover Oregon is trying to do."Posting rate comparisons company-by-company is a taste of what is to come," says Cheryl Martinis of the Oregon Insurance Division. Judging by the reaction, there's already an impact. Providence Health Plan on Wednesday asked to lower its requested rates by 15 percent. Gary Walker, a Providence spokesman, says the "primary driver" was a realization that the plan's cost projections were incorrect. But he conceded a desire to be competitive was part of it. A Family Care Health Plans official on Thursday said the insurer will ask the state for even greater decrease in requested rates. CEO Jeff Heatherington says the company realized its analysts were too pessimistic after seeing online that its proposed premiums were the highest. "That was my question when I saw the rates was, 'Can we go in and refile these?'" he said. "We're going to try to get these to a competitive range." The oregonhealthrates.org website provides the filings by the individual carriers and a comparison of certain requested rates in the individual and small business market, broken down by region . The rate comparison shows identical standard-benefit plans rated bronze, silver or gold for their level of benefits for small businesses , as well as individual non-smokers aged 21, 40 and 60. The easy rate comparison is only one of the changes consumers who buy their own insurance can expect in 2014. Another is higher premiums in the 2014 individual market, though for many people they'll be offset by tax credits. The higher rates are because people with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied coverage. Also, plans have to offer stronger benefits than they used to, leading to higher premiums. The changes have spawned much speculation, with some predicting "rate shock" for people who buy their own policies. Now consumers can see for themselves what premiums could be available, at least for certain plans. Meanwhile, at least half the potential customers who buy their own insurance will qualify for a sliding scale of income-based tax credits that could more than-eliminate any price hikes. Nearly 400,000 Oregonians are expected to purchase their own insurance as tax credits lure previously uninsured consumers. In addition to comparing insurance plans, Cover Oregon can enroll people and qualify them for tax credits. Individual consumers and small businesses will be able to talk by phone or use computers to get questions answered. Insurance agents and outreach workers in the community will also be available to help. It's too soon to start shopping. The rates posted Thursday by the Oregon Insurance Division still must be approved by the state in July. The full Cover Oregon website launches in early October .. This is from the newspaper The Oregonian....This article is written so that even conservatives might be able to understand it. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=978_1368232905 echo4250 Two <span class="highlight">Oregon</span> Insurers Rethink 2014 Premiums as State Posts First Ever Rate Comparison Oregon,Obamacare,working, Sun, 12 May 2013 23:45:07 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d51_1368416288 livelurked On and in the Beach. *not me/ not my vid. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d51_1368416288 livelurked <span class="highlight">Oregon</span> coast---Intertidal go-pro oregon, OR, tidal, pools, wave action, go pro Sat, 04 May 2013 01:54:48 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=74f_1367646792 SAPD_HRT Two masked men wearing hoodies and wielding handguns burst into the Pine Eagle Charter School in this tiny rural community on Friday. Students were at home for an in-service day, so the gunmen headed into a meeting room full of teachers and opened fire. Someone figured out in a few seconds that the bullets were not drawing blood because they were blanks and the exercise was a drill, designed to test Pine Eagle's preparation for an assault by "active shooters" who were, in reality, members of the school staff. But those few seconds left everybody plenty scared. Principal Cammie DeCastro said it became clear very quickly just how many of the school's 15 teachers would have survived. The answer: "Not many," she said. Elementary teacher Morgan Gover, 31, said only two teachers would have lived to tell the tale. She admitted being scared, and also acknowledged she would have been among the casualties, having taken several fake direct hits from the shooters. "I'll tell you, the whole situation was horrible," she said. "I got a couple in the front and a couple in the back." The surprised staff had received training from the Union County Sheriff's Office on active shooter scenarios. They had been told they had some options, such as not rushing out of their classrooms when gunfire erupted, and locking and barricading their doors. They weren't expecting a drill like this, and they were caught by surprise when the two men entered and began firing. "There was some commotion," DeCastro said. The goal of the drill was to learn how people would react, so better emergency plans could be made, she said. It was a wake-up for many of the teachers. "It was shocking," said elementary teacher Dollie Beck, 54. Surprisingly, the drill made Beck aware that she would not have recognized the sounds of gunfire. "I would have blown it off as kids' sounds in the hall," she said. The drill has since prompted her to keep her classroom door locked and to think of windows as escape routes, she said. But the biggest insight for her was the reminder that she is in charge of the youngsters in her classroom, and would have to remain calm in an emergency. "Emotion begets emotion," she said. Gover said before the drill, she was comfortable she had a plan to deal with such a situation. What she learned was, her plan wasn't much good. "It heightened my awareness about what's around me," she said. Halfway, population 288 , is the eastern Oregon ranching town that became world-famous 13 years ago as the globe's first "Internet city." The city council changed Halfway's name to Half.com in return for $73,000 from a Philadelphia-based Internet bazaar of the same name that sold books, CDs, movies and the like on-line at half price. The town got its old name back a year later when the on-line bazaar was sold to eBay. Now Halfway is back in the real world, where people sometimes enter schools and open fire. DeCastro has heard some criticisms of the drill from townsfolk, but is convinced it was valuable. "For us not to know how we were going to respond is leaving us open," she said. Beck and Gover agree. "I'm in charge of a pile of kids," said Gover. "It made me analyze as a teacher what my role is for these babies." The district's Safety Committee and the School Board now will critically evaluate policies and procedures and decide what to do next, said DeCastro. Armed teachers is one possible outcome, she said. Or the district may get armed and trained volunteers from the community to watch over the school in shifts, she said. Tougher doors and better locks are other options. Gover said the teachers tend to favor having one or two armed teachers in the building at all times. "We are so remote," Gover said, "we are going to have to take care of ourselves." But thinking about active shooter scenarios is hard, she said. "We are tender-hearted people who give hugs all day. We don't think like that." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=74f_1367646792 SAPD_HRT Gunfire and moments of fear as a rural <span class="highlight">Oregon</span> school tests its readiness Active, Shooter, School, Drill Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:26:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4f8_1367079759 Traci Sutherland-Gibbs PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A police officer fired for driving drunk in an unmarked police car while off-duty has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the city of Gresham, the police chief and others, alleging his rights were violated under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The lawsuit filed in Portland alleged the officer, Jason Servo, was suffering from alcoholism, a recognized disability under the act, and shouldn't have been dismissed. The suit also alleged Servo was denied due process, and the police union failed to represent him adequately. "Just as with any type of disability or disease, they should have made some kind of effort to accommodate that, or some kind of effort to work with him, and not simply sever all ties," said Shawn Kollie, one of Servo's attorneys. Police Chief Craig Junginger was out of the office Friday. City spokeswoman Laura Shepard said officials would not discuss the case because their policy is to not talk about pending litigation. Servo, 43, was arrested in January 2011 after he crashed into a ditch while off-duty. The lawsuit said that Servo, a detective who was the department's lead firearms instructor, had taken the police vehicle to a firearms training session in the nearby city of Troutdale. He later joined fellow officers for dinner and drinks. "This was a common practice among (Gresham) officers and had become an inherent part of the culture," according to the lawsuit filed late Thursday. Servo was alone when his vehicle veered into a ditch and he was not hurt. Though Servo refused to take breath or field sobriety tests, the Clackamas County sheriff's deputy who arrested him later testified before the state Department of Public Safety Standards and Training that Servo was probably one of the top 10 most intoxicated people he had arrested in almost 15 years of drunken-driving investigations. Two months after the accident, Servo pleaded guilty to drunken driving and entered a diversion program. He fulfilled the program's requirements and the DUI was dismissed. Servo also voluntarily entered an in-patient program at a Serenity Lane drug-and-alcohol treatment center, where he was diagnosed as an alcoholic. "There were times where I went home and I couldn't get crime scenes out of my head; I went to drinking for that and there are other officers that do the same thing," Servo said Friday, adding that he has now been sober for 818 days. The lawsuit alleged the chief fired Servo to save money, ignoring the known disability of alcoholism. "I know it sounds kind of like a conspiracy theorist's claim," Kollie said, "but we do believe there was a funding issue in the Gresham police department at the time." It could not immediately be determined how common it is for alcoholics to claim their rights have been violated under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in a fact sheet, provides an example of how an alcoholic can justly be fired, and it's similar to the Servo case. In its example, a federal police officer is involved in an accident for which he is charged with drunken driving. About a month later, he gets a termination notice stating that his conduct makes it inappropriate for him to continue. The officer says the arrest made him realize he is an alcoholic and that he is obtaining treatment. According to the EEOC, the employer may proceed with the firing. The example, of course, is not precise because Servo's crash happened while he was off-duty. "The ADA has provisions in it, across the board, to not require employers to subject other people to unreasonable risk to accommodate a disability," said Bob Joondeph, executive director with Disability Rights Oregon. Joondeph said he couldn't comment on any specifics in the Servo case, but generally accommodations for an alcoholic might include letting the worker attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings - not allowing them to drink on the job or drive drunk. Separate from the lawsuit, Servo is appealing the standards-and-training agency's decision to strip him of his police certification. Servo is currently working as a private investigator. Follow Steven DuBois at http://www.twitter.com/pdxdub Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4f8_1367079759 Traci Sutherland-Gibbs Our tax dollars at work? oregon,cop, fired, dui, claiming disability, fool Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:36:08 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c09_1367008212 OvercomeMindlessness Portland-Fucking-Oregon Ladies and Gentlemen! Shit-Capitol of the Nation! "Deputies responded to reports of a dead cat found in a home on the 1900 block of Sunnyslope Road in the Milwaukie area Monday.Investigators said the cat was strapped to a makeshift operating table with jumper cables. A light hung from a bungee cord above the table. Deputies said they found a wet sponge, scissors, a 12-inch straight-blade kitchen knife, a plastic razor and a cigarette butt on the table. All those items were seized as evidence. Investigators said the victims' cat, named Mama Kitty, had gone missing three days earlier. The cat was 9 years old. "When I walked into my neighbor's home, all I could see was her tail hanging off the side of the board," said the cat's owner Lisa Armstrong. "You can't even digest that as a human being, I'll have that vision for the rest of my life you know." Investigators said the dead cat's body had been tampered with and was partially shaved. The Oregon Humane Society's law enforcement division conducted a necropsy and determined the cat died of asphyxiation. Ashley Guldager, 21, was arrested and charged with aggravated animal abuse and first-degree theft of an animal. "I don't want to talk about the cat because that was a horrible thing," Guldager said from the Clackamas County Jail. In an emotional and often incoherent interview, Guldager referenced the Bible, Satan and eventually her neighbor's cat. "My body was there," she said. "I was sitting there like this and there was something else doing it. Like it just used me." The charge of aggravated animal abuse is applied if a person maliciously kills an animal, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office. "Yeah, I'm really sorry about the pet," Guldager said. Guldager had been living upstairs on a couch in the home where the cat was found for about a month. She is single and unemployed, according to deputies. She also knew the owners of the cat. Deputies have not revealed a motive for the killing of the cat. "I'm sorry," Guldager said. "I love animals." But Armstrong says, she doesn't believe that, and adds that she will never understand why this had to happen to her beloved pet. "She took a life, it may not have been a human life, but by tomorrow we'll get our justice in court, and we'll make sure she stays where she's at, she is not well," said Armstrong. Investigators at the scene said Guldager had also been mixing chemicals at the house. Those chemicals had been moved to the backyard. Firefighters were called out to check on the chemicals and ensure it was safe to continue the investigation. Guldager's bail is set at $100,000. She has also been referred for a mental health evaluation." Video Here: http://www.kptv.com/story/22081130/police-woman-suffocated-cat-in-disturbing-case-of-animal-abuse http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c09_1367008212 OvercomeMindlessness Satan made me kill your cat. (aka meth) Portland, Oregon, Cat, satan, drugs, meth, crackhead, insane, lady, woman, nutts, Fri, 10 May 2013 18:26:38 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=46e_1368224550 echo4250 Looks like Obamacare is more "on track" than "train wreck. " In a striking illustration of the promise that the health law holds for consumers, two Oregon private insurers vying to sell coverage on the state's Obamacare insurance marketplace this October are reevaluating their opening bids for the plans' monthly premiums . The reason? A side-by-side regional comparison of all proposed 2014 premiums for Oregon marketplace plans became public on Oregon's marketplace website Thursday, and showed that the two insurers' planned monthly premiums were far higher than other proposals. That raised fears among the companies' officials that their plans wouldn't be competitive on the market later this year, leading them to proactively request a rate reduction - and as more of Obamacare is implemented, state insurance commissioners expect that trend to continue : "Posting rate comparisons company-by-company is a taste of what is to come,"says Cheryl Martinis of the Oregon Insurance Division. Judging by the reaction, there's already an impact. Providence Health Plan on Wednesday asked to lower its requested rates by 15 percent. Gary Walker, a Providence spokesman, says the "primary driver" was a realization that the plan's cost projections were incorrect. But he conceded a desire to be competitive was part of it. A Family Care Health Plans official on Thursday said the insurer will ask the state for even greater decrease in requested rates. CEO Jeff Heatherington says the company realized its analysts were too pessimistic after seeing online that its proposed premiums were the highest. "That was my question when I saw the rates was, 'Can we go in and refile these?'" he said. "We're going to try to get these to a competitive range." Although some insurers have been using Obamacare as an excuse to hike premiums despite record profits, such rate hikes have been rarer - and less extreme - since the law's passage. And to emphasize, this is all happening before the state has had a chance to review and approve initial plan rates - much less launch the actual marketplace. After the exchange opens up, consumers will have even more detailed information about marketplace plans, including the ability to compare - not just rates - but actual benefits offered on the plans side-by-side. That's particularly significant because much of the current variation in health plan premiums stems from rampant health care price opacity and wildly divergent benefits offered on different health plans - a status quo that won't last in the Obamacare era since the law requires qualifying insurance plans to offer a base level of ten "essential health benefits," including prescription drug, mental health, and maternity services. That means that Americans will be able to go online and figure out whether a plan costs more because it actually provides more robust benefits, or because an insurance company is just trying to gouge prices and maximize profits. Insurance offered on the marketplaces will be separated into Bronze, Silver, and Gold plans based on how generous their offered coverage is, making consumer comparisons between similar health plans simple. As Thursday's development shows, that public information empowers consumers by forcing insurers to compete with one another to attract customers. Or to put it another way - and contrary to conservative fear-mongering about the law - Obamacare is working exactly as it was intended to. And with 24 million Americans expected to gain coverage through the marketplaces by 2016, that's great news for Americans' pocketbooks - as well as their health.. from Think Progress http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=46e_1368224550 echo4250 Obamacare Already Forcing Insurers to Lower Premiums healthcare,Obamacare,Romneycare, Fri, 10 May 2013 12:20:21 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d57_1368202446 th1sf8te MILWAUKIE, OR (KPTV) -A woman accused of a disturbing case of animal abuse granted a jailhouse interview to Fox 12 Thursday. MORE SlideshowMug shots in the newsWho's in the news for all the wrong reasons this week? Take a look at our mug shot slideshow. More &gt; Deputies responded to reports of a dead cat found in a home on the 1900 block of Sunnyslope Road in the Milwaukie area Monday. Investigators said the cat was strapped to a makeshift operating table with jumper cables. A light hung from a bungee cord above the table. Deputies said they found a wet sponge, scissors, a 12-inch straight-blade kitchen knife, a plastic razor and a cigarette butt on the table. All those items were seized as evidence. Investigators said the victims' cat, named Mama Kitty, had gone missing three days earlier. The cat was 9 years old. "When I walked into my neighbor's home, all I could see was her tail hanging off the side of the board," said the cat's owner Lisa Armstrong. "You can't even digest that as a human being, I'll have that vision for the rest of my life you know." Investigators said the dead cat's body had been tampered with and was partially shaved. The Oregon Humane Society's law enforcement division conducted a necropsy and determined the cat died of asphyxiation. Ashley Guldager, 21, was arrested and charged with aggravated animal abuse and first-degree theft of an animal. "I don't want to talk about the cat because that was a horrible thing," Guldager said from the Clackamas County Jail. In an emotional and often incoherent interview, Guldager referenced the Bible, Satan and eventually her neighbor's cat. "My body was there," she said. "I was sitting there like this and there was something else doing it. Like it just used me." The charge of aggravated animal abuse is applied if a person maliciously kills an animal, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office. "Yeah, I'm really sorry about the pet," Guldager said. Guldager had been living upstairs on a couch in the home where the cat was found for about a month. She is single and unemployed, according to deputies. She also knew the owners of the cat. Deputies have not revealed a motive for the killing of the cat. "I'm sorry," Guldager said. "I love animals." But Armstrong says, she doesn't believe that, and adds that she will never understand why this had to happen to her beloved pet. "She took a life, it may not have been a human life, but by tomorrow we'll get our justice in court, and we'll make sure she stays where she's at, she is not well," said Armstrong. Investigators at the scene said Guldager had also been mixing chemicals at the house. Those chemicals had been moved to the backyard. Firefighters were called out to check on the chemicals and ensure it was safe to continue the investigation. Guldager's bail is set at $100,000. She has also been referred for a mental health evaluation. Clackamas County deputies said if you have any additional tips related to this case or the suspect, call 503-723-4949. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d57_1368202446 th1sf8te Animal abuse suspect: 'There was something else doing it' Animal abuse suspect: 'There was something else doing it'