Is it illegal to rip up the tape? If I had to guess, I'd say that putting the tape down is illegal.

I'm tempted to do that shit every year, but then I remember that I don't want to go to that fucking parade anyway and I'm too lazy to give a shit about spending hours cleaning up the litter.

It still pisses me off, but mostly because I'm elitist, as alluded to in the waterfront village post (no, seriously, I'm elitist, I'll admit it)

How about you rip it up across an entire block and then get some chalk and write "DEAR SUBURBANITES: PLEASE STOP LITTERING IN MY CITY" in its place.

I like that idea.

I am glad someone else feels this way, this tradition has always totally, utterly incensed me for some reason. No other city would put up with Suburban Docker Warriors staking out sidewalks with little bullshit duct-taped lawn chairs.

McFattasserson family has EARNED that spot by camping over night.

True, if they camped out. But most of the McFattassersons just tape that shit and leave. Take a peek for yourself tonight, and you'll see MLK is virtually a ghost town.

I, too, am unreasonably enraged by this tradition. I'm thinking of paying homeless dudes to clear out entire blocks.

Best of all, this might even make the dumb-ass parade worth attending to see the fights that break out!

if you follow the end of the parade, they have street sweepers... if anyone ever walked burnside bridge in the past right after the parade and seen all the garbage the greshamites and beavertronians leave behind.. fucking christ... these people are fucking slobs. I don't understand it.. I used to live on 17th and morrison a block or so from PGE park, and everynight after the game, hundreds of people would be walking down the street yelling, their kids screaming... i'd have to yell out the window, "HELLO?! PEOPLE FUCKING LIVE HERE!" to which i would get negative remarks back... i fucking hate suburbanites. Having lived out in beavertron for 6 months a year or so ago, i am not just being biased.

Maybe next year we can organize a Friday night "rip up the tape" crew. The point wouldn't necessarily be ripping up the litter (by that point it's already been on the ground for a week in a lot of cases) but to discourage people from doing it in the future. If people knew their tape was just going to get ripped up, eventually they'd stop?

Ehh, but also I'm lazy.

For god sake, what has gotten into you people? That fucking tape is soooo Portland. It makes me all warm and fuzzy inside to think that people care enough about the ROSE PARADE that they stake out their territory days in advance. I think most people, at least people not so jaded and sad as you, think this is a wonderful, community-building act. I suppose you would rather all the suburbanites come into town this weekend and hire prostitutes and smoke crack. Stop all your hate, except Jesus in your heart and appreciate the beauty that is the Portland Rose Festival.

How about if everyone takes a piss on the lawn chairs?

I had a laugh on the way to work yesterday morning. Someone had rearranged the tape on a couple of spots on the east end of the Burnside Bridge to read "fuckers" in one spot and "cunts" in another.

I would hate the practice less if these bitches would remove that shit after.

I have to agree with Holden. For all the shit I talk about Portland sometimes, I saw the tape all over downtown last night—and rode past the tent village that lined MLK later last night—and was into it: It's totally hokey, but cute, that some folks are so into a damn parade.

Also, I liked that someone marked off the sidewalk in front of a bar on 10th, with the words "Reserved for Mayor Potter and Staff." Uh... I think the mayor's IN the parade.

Can someone explain to me what Jesus has to do with the ROSE PARADE?

What Jesus has to do with the Rose Parade: Roses have thorns and Jesus really digs thorns along with being dragged through the street. The Rose Parade is right up J's alley.

The duct tape for Blimpy Whitethighs is ugly and stays stuck in some places for over a year. It's a bloody eyesore. Why do people need dominion so badly? I'm anti-duct tape manifest destiny. I think the Rose Parade should be like Mardi Gras, and Portland should just go ahead and legalize all forms gambling while we're at it. That way when Vegas runs out of water in 2020 and (god forbid) New Orleans gets buried under a second hurricane, the US will have good old Portland as their dear friend in a time of need. May as well throw in legal pot and prostitution too. No city that cool would ever put up with a sidewalk full of dork tape, so that's the key. The Little Dutch Boy's finger in the dike, if you will. Get rid of the duct tape and Portland will assuredly shine her filthy lighthouse of vice into a very lucrative and titillating future.

What if duct tape was outlawed, but people were allowed/encouraged to mark off their space with chalk?

It usually rains for the parade anyway, so that'd screw with the folks not willing to camp out to claim their sidewalk space. They'd show up to washed-sidewalk chaos on Saturday morning.

But, dude, if duct tape was outlawed, only outlaws would use duct tape. Duct tape doesn't kill people, guns kill people. Or, well, actually, bullets. Or, the loss of blood from the hole from the bullet from the gun fired by that outlaw who uses duct tape. And illegal assault weapons.

I digress.

I think it's pretty cool that people leave lawn chairs and signs out overnight and can be reasonably sure that they'll still be there the next day. It's like Scout's Honor. Or, well, a pro-gay Scout's Honor. Like Scout's Honor that Diane Linn would have done.

Shit, digressing again.

It's about Portland's trust of the commons. Sure, it'd be better if everyone then picked up after themselves, but, well, shit, you've ruined my joy.

Driving to work Sunday AM, there was so much trash leftover from their packed to the gills coolers and fast food stops, not to mention all the damn tape they never bother to rip up after they hightail it back to Tigard.

I won't be here next year (THANK GOD) so y'all enjoy that shit. Fucking go crazy on that tape & chair & canopy bullshit. I'll be having a cocktail on the beach in the sun next June.

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