After a Beaverton, Oregon woman stopped by City Hall to pay a fine, she and two friends were seen twerking outside the building and “exposing themselves.” Coura Valzquez, 20, and her two friends are now charged with disorderly conduct. It gets more ridiculous, though. City Hall employees then saw one member of the twerk team, 20-year-old Brittany Medak, peeing between two parked cars, earning her an additional charge for “offensive littering.” The three women left City Hall in the same vehicle. When police pulled them over in connection with the twerking/public urination incident, they found exactly what you were expecting: Meth! (Plus some bonus weed and a little coke.) Your move, Florida.
It’s a rare occasion when the Portland area is the source of national news. The reason I don’t write much about my adopted hometown is that it’s not the kind of place that attracts attention. Well, OK; there’s Portlandia…and we do have a reputation for being somewhat…odd. Still, odd isn’t particularly interesting. Add an astonishing degree of immaturity, public urination, and some meth to the equation, though…and you have something altogether different.
Beaverton’s City Hall isn’t the sort of place that expects or gets a lot of off-the-wall behavior. This story’s probably the biggest thing to happen in Beaverton since a moron driving a truck took a turn onto an entrance ramp too fast and ended up hanging off an overpass on Highway 217 by his rear bumper. Or when police had to reroute traffic because the opening of a Krispy Kreme location created a hopeless traffic jam. Good times….
I don’t know about you, but I could live the rest of my life without hearing the word “tweaking”…and die a very happy man.
Which reminds me…isn’t it about time for the Naked Bike Ride?
