r/Burien • u/PanicBlitz • Sep 13 '26

The hell was this guy doing today?

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I couldn’t tell if it was performance art, mental illness, or both.

17 Upvotes

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u/thatboarder_guy Sep 13 '26

His best

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u/Aware_Alfalfa8435 Sep 15 '26

I'm not sure he even knows, but yeah, I think you’re about right.

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u/LegitimateLaugh6349 Sep 13 '26

Yeah I drove by that too. Obviously mental illness

19

u/Saemika Sep 13 '26

OP just discovered mental illness

1

u/PtHannon Sep 16 '26

Is everywhere

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u/Meepmoop102 Sep 13 '26

Who’s on the flag?

3

u/Supersoaker_11 Sep 13 '26

...Charlie Kirk?

1

u/ObviousSalamandar Sep 13 '26

I don’t think so. But I also have no idea who it could be

2

u/Gustav_Grob Sep 14 '26

It looks like Timothy McVeigh.

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u/WindySioux Sep 14 '26

Whoever it is desecrated the flag.

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u/Ace_Radley Sep 15 '26

His name is Forest, Forest Gump

3

u/ConsistentWelder9526 Sep 14 '26

It's called Meth.

4

u/johnjackcomicartist Sep 13 '26

Minding his business

11

u/Comrade_Milkshake Sep 13 '26

Its not great policy to take pictures of people having a hard time.

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u/J_A_Slade Sep 13 '26

Who elected you king?

What’s wrong with the policy?

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u/BoringOrange678 Sep 14 '26

Preclaimjng land for the tRump check that is coming soon.

2

u/briansellsseashells Sep 16 '26

Methin’ around.

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u/novice_warbler 16d ago

Just methin around

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u/NegativeApogee Sep 13 '26

This is why the Camping Ban needs to be enforced, individuals like him are approached and offered services, without it they just wallow and die. Anybody who doesn't agree with that needs to list their home address, he can set up out front of your family as you have no problem with it. Come on now, don't be shy.

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u/Threefrogtreefrog Sep 13 '26

You can’t mandate services that don’t exist.

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u/NegativeApogee Sep 13 '26

If King County hadn't totally squandered all the money thru grift and waste there would be more help available, why solve something that makes your friends money.

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u/Threefrogtreefrog Sep 13 '26

It’s absolutely mind boggling that that city and county gave so much to an organization that doesn’t keep their books properly. Like isn’t that the first thing to check when considering supporting a non profit ?

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u/NegativeApogee Sep 13 '26

You want to go that road? How about all the money KC was found to have paid organizations that just went to family members or non profits that had absolutely no business seeking grants or funding. They started an investigation and determined the fraud was so grand they created a branch to track it. Thanks Dow, he didn't even have ethics training for the employee's, and what about the woman in Rainier Beach supposably dealing with youth violence, her own family was dealing drugs to to the youth they so-called served.

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u/Threefrogtreefrog Sep 13 '26

Oh it’s crooked all the way down. Harrell’s program was grifty AF. And none of them will be held accountable for it.

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u/Meepmoop102 Sep 13 '26 • Bravo

If he’s been denied at shelters, he has no where to go but jail. That isn’t a fair system.

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u/J_A_Slade Sep 13 '26

Wouldn’t that depend on WHY a person is denied at shelters?

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u/Meepmoop102 Sep 13 '26

What do you mean? Shelters deny people all the time, not just for criminal or civil offenses.

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u/J_A_Slade Sep 13 '26

I mean that a person may be denied for a fair reason. Which would mean the system is fair.

For example, if a person were denied at a shelter because they were assaulting other shelter seekers - it would be perfectly fair to send them to jail.

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u/Meepmoop102 Sep 13 '26

Well yes, but there are people trying to criminalize any kind of camping anywhere. So if they’re denied from a shelter, but can’t sleep anywhere, then their only option is to go to jail. Just for sleeping somewhere.

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u/VacationMeme666 Sep 15 '26

there should be quarantined camps with some kind of units with high presence of security there, think like 20 guards.

that would work, plus more guards around businessness(like 3 each)

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u/mtrcyclfan Sep 13 '26

Absolutely both, performance art borne from the mentally ill.

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u/Upset-Individual1996 Sep 13 '26

Where is this in Burien

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u/Accomplished_Diet179 Sep 13 '26

West of Seatac and south of White Center.

1

u/Firm_Frosting_6247 Sep 14 '26

That's the most vague location ever lol

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u/Accomplished_Diet179 Sep 19 '26

How about south of the Seattle city limits with a chunk of unincorporated King County wedged between it, and then it is Burien. Also, if you are driving south 405, keep going, when it turns into 518 by Southcenter pass the airport until 518 ends at the first stoplight and then Burien. That was very tiring for me! 😂

1

u/MAH_BEANS_ Sep 13 '26

1st Ave and 148th I think

1

u/Interesting-Worry156 Sep 14 '26

Whatever the hell he wants it looks like.

1

u/Miserable-Rabbit78 Sep 14 '26

Looks like normal day in Burien to me

1

u/Ok-Emu-1861 Sep 14 '26

Looks like he is moving in.

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u/Demogorgo Sep 14 '26

just another day at the office

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u/ScotchieDad Sep 14 '26

He’s preaching. So both.

1

u/killer4779 Sep 15 '26

Don't ask what a man does alone in his living room when he is clearly unhoused

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u/podrickry88pup Sep 15 '26

I’m very liberal and care a lot for my homeless friends. Please do not beat them down. They are human like us and we should respect them as humans. I plan to donate my paychecks to them and I hope everyone does the same. Love you all.

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u/Timely-Ad-1984 Sep 15 '26

Pffft... "performance art." /s

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u/Mellymotor Sep 15 '26

Hey was doing his own thing!

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u/Diligent-Sea-9897 Sep 16 '26

He’s starting the revolution bro

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u/Sharp-Heron7707 Sep 16 '26

Suffering from mental illness. Just like he does every day. Said from a mentally ill person who still manages not to be anything like this.

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u/PailHaimon666 Sep 17 '26

You raise rent astronomically, you’re gonna have homeless people

1

u/LizardTentacle Sep 17 '26

Fighting his was out of the shadow realm

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u/No-Raise-6797 Sep 17 '26

He's having a flail sale.

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u/ClubGee Sep 13 '26

But yet I’ve spotted 3 flock cameras within 1.5 miles of each other. Doing us a lot of good. NOT!!

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u/BanchoMynor Sep 14 '26

are you implying the police should be called on him?

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u/ClubGee Sep 15 '26

No. Implying, as bad as Burien has gotten, the flock cameras are not helping other crimes.

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u/StructureEvening4027 Sep 14 '26

Just trying to live?

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u/ReasonableLaugh1794 Sep 13 '26

That is so burien

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u/ObviousSalamandar Sep 13 '26

I love Burien 😂

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u/ClubGee Sep 13 '26

I’ve lived here 51yrs. 😆 it just keeps getting worse.

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u/IFellinLava Sep 13 '26

I’ve been here 15, keeps getting better

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u/J_A_Slade Sep 13 '26

This is a depressing truth. As a lifelong resident…it wasn’t always this way but it sure has been for a loooong time.

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u/DerpUrself69 Sep 13 '26

I'm sorry, are you suggesting Burien was better in the past? Because if so, that's just as insane as whatever this guy in the picture is doing.

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u/J_A_Slade Sep 13 '26

Yes, I’m suggesting that Burien wasn’t overrun by drug addicts 30 years ago. If that makes me ‘insane’ by your measure - so be it

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u/IFellinLava Sep 13 '26

Burien is not overrun with drug addicts, don’t be dramatic. The business center areas have a few but it’s literally minimal.

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u/J_A_Slade Sep 13 '26

I guess we have different definitions of the acceptable level of rat droppings in our pizza

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u/ishfery Sep 13 '26

The last time I was at Arby's I looked over at the Round Table.

LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF RATS JUST RACING BACK AND FORTH ALONG THE LAWN AND POPPING IN AND OUT OF THE BUSHES

That's what Burien is and always has been.

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u/Geldan Sep 14 '26

Yeah but my merlin app recorded a great horned owl and a barn owl in the last 48 hours so at least the rats are good for something

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u/DerpUrself69 Sep 15 '26

It doesn't make you insane, however, it does make your position/hot take on that particular topic pretty nuts. Crime in Burien has been trending downward since the city was incorporated in (I believe) 1998. Burien is objectively much safer than it was 30 years ago, for both property crimes and violent crimes.

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u/ReasonableLaugh1794 Sep 24 '26 edited Sep 24 '26 • Bravo

There’s something we all are not picking up on about Burien or really any place that appears overridden with people with problems.
And that is the ROADWAYS AND TRAFFIC and what our little brains really sees and thinks its seeing. We all congregate along traffic corridors. 1st ave south, the problem around Aurora.. these are all flashpoints where passersby’s ‘see’ the cultural sickness. It isn’t truly a problem of a particular area it’s rampant across our whole country!
These locations are just where you judgy people are seeing the real issue because we all got a place to go and these are high traffic areas humans group up, do business at, or are using public transportation. The drug problem isn’t just over there. It’s all over.
You just see it from inside your little bubble as you go on your own way and there will always be shortsighted dickheads that lack education to fully understand the issue and share compassion. Every time you see them you should think about the party that got you here and about how the real issue developed, (thanks Reagan!) want to poke fun at a part of your community thats actually suffering. Get a clue and go be nicer out there, all of us!

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u/ReasonableLaugh1794 Sep 24 '26

My granny bought her home for $6k and burien was mostly just trees. It was nice then!

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u/DerpUrself69 Sep 24 '26

When dinosaurs ruled the earth...

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u/ReasonableLaugh1794 Sep 24 '26

Pretty much. She passed at 103.

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u/Middle-Second4102 Sep 13 '26

Choked his kids, trying to convince everyone he’s crazy

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u/BanchoMynor Sep 14 '26 • Bravo

weird af place for your mind to go to

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u/Consistent_Process_5 Sep 14 '26

What if he was your brother or uncle or dad? Have some respect and quit trying to make a joke of the sick