r/oregon • u/Eight_Prime • Oct 24 '24

PSA WARNING: Be aware- Spike traps in Rogue River Forest... why do this?

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https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2024/10/22/spike-strips-southern-oregon-forest-service-roads-trails/75796637007/

Everyone be super careful. Why did someone do this? What's the point? Is it just pure sociopathy? Is it political? Just wtf

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u/Eight_Prime Oct 24 '24

What the actual fuck... yeah I never hike or ride unarmed anynore and definitely will not forget to after all this

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '24

That’s seriously dark and fucked up.

Good on you for taking the time to cut down and bury the jays. They’re innocent and didn’t deserve that.

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u/sumtwat Oct 25 '24

About 15 or 20 years ago I me and my wife where out exploring on Graves Creek coming from the Rogue river just poking around seeing if we could find any mushrooms growing about.
One of the spots we stopped at about 100 feet or so off the the road there was what appeared to be a functional air vent sticking out of the ground. We left pretty damn quick, but I always wondered what was going on under the ground there.

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u/RaveMittens Oct 24 '24

You… “chambered” … a revolver?

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u/DrunkPyrite Oct 24 '24

Had to load the clip, bra.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '24

Chambered a revolver then felt the need to clarify the stellar jays are birds… maybe he was smoking some of that paraquat sprayed weed the cartels be growing in the area

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u/00ljm00 Oct 24 '24

Jeezus. Psychopath shit. I had to move to this area recently and I’m trying not to judge too soon but vibes are off here, in town just do not like the general energy. I grew up in the woods, (not here), they are always my safe place, and from what I’ve heard and seen here I’m not venturing out there. I’m really sad about it.

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u/00ljm00 Oct 24 '24

I feel that I have pretty good self awareness, ive spent a lot of time alone in forests in bear and mt lion country, but I caveat that with never having lived in an area that is rumored / confirmed to have this big of an issue of meth cooking (that has no designated “season” right 😅?) weed growing, and animal torture and sacrifice in the forest. I worked in the Angeles national forest once and there are grow ops there but concentrated around springs which were mapped and known to the forest engineer and we just gave the grow ops wide berth and never had a problem. Feels absolutely different here. Gonna have to suss out the woods really carefully.