A post featured on the r/Portland Reddit thread claimed that police said it was legal for the homeless to defecate in public after shocked onlookers saw a man with his butt in the air “depositing a 6-8″ turd onto the sidewalk.”
Yes, really.
https://summit.news/2019/09/06/portland-cops-says-its-legal-for-homeless-to-defecate-in-public/