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Posted: 3/27/2009 4:09:18 PM EDT

PORTLAND, Ore. – It is just one more reason not to get into trouble: you may appear in "Busted.”

It's a newspaper that shows hundreds of mug shots of people arrested for everything from speeding to rape.

Busted is new to the Portland area but is already available in six other cities across the country.

The creator says he's just making law breakers more accountable.

The local issue of the paper, which sells for $1, lists mug shots of people who have been arrested recently in Multnomah County.

The publisher, who would only give his name as Ryan due to security concerns, said everything that is in the paper is information you could find for yourself on local law enforcement Web sites.

Ryan says he gets calls from people he puts in the paper.

He says it is his way of making it easier for locals to know who's been breaking the law.

At Peterson’s convenience store, customers like Guido Casey were taking a look through the rows of unsmiling suspects’ mug shots.

“Just to see who I know who's in here,” Casey said.

Casey says it's a practical tool that could let him know who he's talking to.

“I work in an alternative store, there's a lot of people who come in looking for money, other stuff,” Casey adds, “so you never know…”

Publisher Ryan says he is selling about 60,000 copies a month. Even though he's making the faces of criminal suspects more visible, Ryan wants to remain somewhat anonymous, for obvious reasons.

“But you know, I honestly don't feel too bad about somebody who, you know, maybe got a DUI, maybe put my family at risk by driving drunk on the roads, or somebody that has committed a burglary, or maybe a registered sex offender who lives in your neighborhood that you didn't know about,” Ryan told KATU News in a phone interview.”

Some people think some of the suspects don't deserve this kind of exposure and that the paper doesn't tell enough of the story.

“She could have said something mean to somebody downtown and a cop gave her a ticket,” Michael King said as he looked at one mug shot of a woman, “I don't think this is right.”

Publisher Ryan said the people in the paper were picked at random and that right now the paper is a bi-weekly publication.

In a couple of months he says it will come out every week and should include just about everybody that gets arrested in Multnomah County.

Ryan says he is working on an edition for Clackamas County as well.

Posted: 3/27/2009 4:24:38 PM EDT

[#1]

I really gotta get out of the city someday

Posted: 3/27/2009 5:33:57 PM EDT

[#2]

Wonder how he's going to apologize to people that got arrested, put in his paper, shunned by their friends and community... and then found innocent.

Posted: 3/27/2009 6:07:15 PM EDT

[#3]

there is a stop and rob store in tacoma that puts pics from it's surveillance system up of people who have stolen/robbed the store...i always found it amusing....

Posted: 3/27/2009 7:26:52 PM EDT

[#4]

I long for the old days when you used to be able to spot a thief by the fact that he was missing a hand.

Posted: 3/27/2009 8:12:11 PM EDT

[#5]

His signature must be " I'll make you famous"

Posted: 3/27/2009 9:04:50 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Wonder how he's going to apologize to people that got arrested, put in his paper, shunned by their friends and community... and then found innocent.

Ever watch cops?

Posted: 3/28/2009 12:29:35 AM EDT

[#7]

Posted: 3/28/2009 12:49:44 AM EDT

[#8]

Posted: 3/28/2009 1:06:32 AM EDT

[#9]

That's all kindsa fucked up.

Posted: 3/28/2009 3:12:51 AM EDT

[#10]

I'm unemployed. Look for me in an upcoming issue!

Posted: 3/28/2009 6:17:00 AM EDT

[#11]

Posted: 3/28/2009 7:07:49 AM EDT

[#12]

"CANCEL"

Posted: 3/28/2009 7:39:08 AM EDT

[#13]

WTF is an alternative store?

Posted: 3/28/2009 8:04:15 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:

WTF is an alternative store?

IT's somewhere people come in looking for money....and "stuff"

Posted: 3/28/2009 8:07:41 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

Quoted:

WTF is an alternative store?

IT's somewhere people come in looking for money....and "stuff"

Excellent, because I need some new money...and stuff.

Posted: 3/28/2009 8:28:02 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
WTF is an alternative store?

"tobacco" pipe store. One of those places where all of the dirty hippies spend their time.

Posted: 3/28/2009 9:31:25 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
That's all kindsa fucked up.

Yeah, where's the Glock?

Posted: 3/28/2009 9:43:56 AM EDT

[#18]

To those of you that are into that thing...snake eyes is supposed to be at the upcoming comic convention

Posted: 3/28/2009 11:34:00 AM EDT

[#19]

Posted: 3/28/2009 12:00:04 PM EDT

[#20]

Wow, all this side hijacking and no mentions of number six?

Posted: 3/28/2009 12:12:42 PM EDT

[#21]

Posted: 3/28/2009 12:27:42 PM EDT

[#22]

this one went sideways right quick.....

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Posted: 3/28/2009 12:32:36 PM EDT

[#23]

Posted: 3/28/2009 12:43:53 PM EDT

[#24]

Posted: 3/28/2009 1:04:15 PM EDT

[#25]

Too subtle?

Posted: 3/28/2009 1:09:28 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Too subtle?

Not at all. It's how this thread should have looked from the start before somebody trolled it.

Thank you.

Posted: 3/28/2009 1:17:42 PM EDT

[#27]

You guys are makin' Phil work too much, damnit!

Posted: 3/28/2009 5:10:32 PM EDT

[#28]

I will learn to respect and follow the Code of Conduct. Wait, what?

Posted: 3/28/2009 5:40:25 PM EDT

[#29]

Back on topic...ish.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0327092sham1.html

TV pitchman battered hooker in South Beach hotel room brawl

MARCH 27––Meet Vince Shlomi. He's probably better known to you as the ShamWow Guy, the ubiquitous television pitchman who has been phenomenally successful peddling absorbent towels and food choppers.

Shlomi, 44, was arrested last month on a felony battery charge following a violent confrontation with a prostitute in his South Beach hotel room. According to an arrest affidavit, Shlomi met Sasha Harris, 26, at a Miami Beach nightclub on February 7 and subsequently retired with her to his $750 room at the lavish Setai hotel. Shlomi told cops he paid Harris about $1000 in cash after she "propositioned him for straight sex." Shlomi said that when he kissed Harris, she suddenly "bit his tongue and would not let go." Shlomi then punched Harris several times until she released his tongue. The affidavit, a copy of which you'll find here, notes that during the 4 AM fight Harris sustained facial fractures and lacerations all over her face (she is pictured here in mug shots snapped following busts in 2008 and 2005). After freeing his tongue, a bleeding Shlomi ran to the Setai lobby, where security summoned cops. Harris refused to cooperate with officers, who recovered $930 from her purse. "Both parties had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from their persons," police reported. In a brief telephone interview, Harris declined to answer TSG questions about her run-in with Shlomi, though she did say she is considering a lawsuit against the pitchman. Asked if she worked as a hooker, Harris declined comment. As seen in the below mug shot, Shlomi was also injured during the fracas and, court records show, was treated at Mount Sinai Medical Center. While Shlomi and Harris were both arrested for felony aggravated battery, prosecutors this month declined to file formal charges against the combatants. Police records list Shlomi's occupation as "Marketing," but make no mention of his affiliation with the ShamWow or the Slap Chop, both of which sell for $19.95 (plus shipping and handling).

Posted: 3/28/2009 5:46:19 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Back on topic...ish.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0327092sham1.html

http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/thesmokinggun.com/graphics/art4/0327092sham1awm.jpg

TV pitchman battered hooker in South Beach hotel room brawl

MARCH 27––Meet Vince Shlomi. He's probably better known to you as the ShamWow Guy, the ubiquitous television pitchman who has been phenomenally successful peddling absorbent towels and food choppers.

Shlomi, 44, was arrested last month on a felony battery charge following a violent confrontation with a prostitute in his South Beach hotel room. According to an arrest affidavit, Shlomi met Sasha Harris, 26, at a Miami Beach nightclub on February 7 and subsequently retired with her to his $750 room at the lavish Setai hotel. Shlomi told cops he paid Harris about $1000 in cash after she "propositioned him for straight sex." Shlomi said that when he kissed Harris, she suddenly "bit his tongue and would not let go." Shlomi then punched Harris several times until she released his tongue. The affidavit, a copy of which you'll find here, notes that during the 4 AM fight Harris sustained facial fractures and lacerations all over her face (she is pictured here in mug shots snapped following busts in 2008 and 2005). After freeing his tongue, a bleeding Shlomi ran to the Setai lobby, where security summoned cops. Harris refused to cooperate with officers, who recovered $930 from her purse. "Both parties had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from their persons," police reported. In a brief telephone interview, Harris declined to answer TSG questions about her run-in with Shlomi, though she did say she is considering a lawsuit against the pitchman. Asked if she worked as a hooker, Harris declined comment. As seen in the below mug shot, Shlomi was also injured during the fracas and, court records show, was treated at Mount Sinai Medical Center. While Shlomi and Harris were both arrested for felony aggravated battery, prosecutors this month declined to file formal charges against the combatants. Police records list Shlomi's occupation as "Marketing," but make no mention of his affiliation with the ShamWow or the Slap Chop, both of which sell for $19.95 (plus shipping and handling).

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee129/farrelljt/shamwow.jpg

WOT THA FOOOOOK?

Posted: 3/28/2009 5:47:23 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Back on topic...ish.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0327092sham1.html

http://i.cdn.turner.com/trutv/thesmokinggun.com/graphics/art4/0327092sham1awm.jpg

TV pitchman battered hooker in South Beach hotel room brawl

MARCH 27––Meet Vince Shlomi. He's probably better known to you as the ShamWow Guy, the ubiquitous television pitchman who has been phenomenally successful peddling absorbent towels and food choppers.

Shlomi, 44, was arrested last month on a felony battery charge following a violent confrontation with a prostitute in his South Beach hotel room. According to an arrest affidavit, Shlomi met Sasha Harris, 26, at a Miami Beach nightclub on February 7 and subsequently retired with her to his $750 room at the lavish Setai hotel. Shlomi told cops he paid Harris about $1000 in cash after she "propositioned him for straight sex." Shlomi said that when he kissed Harris, she suddenly "bit his tongue and would not let go." Shlomi then punched Harris several times until she released his tongue. The affidavit, a copy of which you'll find here, notes that during the 4 AM fight Harris sustained facial fractures and lacerations all over her face (she is pictured here in mug shots snapped following busts in 2008 and 2005). After freeing his tongue, a bleeding Shlomi ran to the Setai lobby, where security summoned cops. Harris refused to cooperate with officers, who recovered $930 from her purse. "Both parties had a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from their persons," police reported. In a brief telephone interview, Harris declined to answer TSG questions about her run-in with Shlomi, though she did say she is considering a lawsuit against the pitchman. Asked if she worked as a hooker, Harris declined comment. As seen in the below mug shot, Shlomi was also injured during the fracas and, court records show, was treated at Mount Sinai Medical Center. While Shlomi and Harris were both arrested for felony aggravated battery, prosecutors this month declined to file formal charges against the combatants. Police records list Shlomi's occupation as "Marketing," but make no mention of his affiliation with the ShamWow or the Slap Chop, both of which sell for $19.95 (plus shipping and handling).

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee129/farrelljt/shamwow.jpg

You can't make this shit up..

Posted: 3/28/2009 6:24:01 PM EDT

[#32]

I will learn to respect and follow the code of conduct.

Posted: 3/28/2009 6:47:01 PM EDT

[#33]

He's looks sham-fuked up!

Posted: 3/28/2009 7:06:29 PM EDT

[#34]

The hooker said he was like, "SHAM––OOOOOWW!!!"

Posted: 3/28/2009 10:56:07 PM EDT

[#35]

Posted: 3/29/2009 11:30:11 AM EDT

[#36]

QUIT FUCKING UP MY FORUM!

Posted: 3/29/2009 12:49:10 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:
QUIT FUCKING UP MY FORUM!

Sorry sir, it is in our nature!

"There is no excuse for that we live by killing fucking up 1GR's forum, save that we must."

Posted: 3/29/2009 1:03:22 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:

QUIT FUCKING UP MY FORUM!

Sorry sir, it is in our nature!

"There is no excuse for that we live by killing fucking up 1GR's forum, save that we must."

Overquoting™ for posterity

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