Catch someone lighting up in a bar? Dial 1-800-I’m-a-Snitch.

by djtv on January 3, 2009

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Grab your cell phones, people, and program in this number: 1-866-621-6107. Why? Because that’s the number you call to report noncompliance of a business that allows someone to smoke inside or within 10 feet of an open door or window.

You can call from the bar, or go to this website and fill out this form. Both the website and the phone number warn that complaints are a matter of public record, so you can’t be guaranteed confidentiality. Of course, you can always leave it anonymously.

Didn’t your mom ever tell you that no one likes a tattletale? Tsk, Tsk.

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{ 7 comments }

1 Will RadikNo Gravatar January 3, 2009 at 8:47 pm

Sigh.

2 Jason McArthurNo Gravatar January 3, 2009 at 9:05 pm

Yeah, really?

3 McAngryPantsNo Gravatar January 3, 2009 at 10:47 pm

awesome

4 Lizzy CastonNo Gravatar January 4, 2009 at 12:54 am

I rate this one up there with calling the City on my neighbors that park their cars backwards on the wrong side of the street, those pesky kids making out in their cars in the park after hours, someone that might cheat a little bit on their taxes, or someone that didn’t pay their fare on Trimet.

I guess I’m not enough of a curmudgeon to snitch on the smokers or bars that allow smokers. However, if there is a large monetary reward involved then that’s another matter entirely.

5 AndyNo Gravatar January 4, 2009 at 12:56 am

Yeah. Really.

Just put the number in my phone, even used the very creative “Dial-A-Snitch” as the name.

6 Will RadikNo Gravatar January 4, 2009 at 1:25 am

@Lizzy Caston: If there was a monetary reward for it, I would go smoke in bars and call in to report it myself.

7 djtvNo Gravatar January 4, 2009 at 1:40 am

@will radik: you crack me up.

@lizzy Caston: I had a neighbor like that once, who called to report parking on the wrong side of the street. Threw a party and 3 friends had their cars towed. That’s OK, revenge is a dish best served cold. Rest assured, that was the last time he called the city because either my guests or I parked wrong.

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