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Dirty Hippies, A Midget, And An Old Grudge
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 5:06 pm
by Darrell
The bizarre backstory to a recent attempted bombing in Nederland, Colorado, a small mountain town west of Boulder:
An old STP sticker, the memory of a cap-gun-toting hippie, a rogue marshal and a 45-year-old grudge all came together earlier this month in a bizarre event that shook the small mountain town of Nederland.
Forty-five years after former Nederland Marshal Renner Forbes killed Guy “Deputy Dawg” Gaughnor, who he considered a nuisance, and then dumped his body near a gold mine shaft, the victim’s friend is accused of seeking vengeance by trying to blow up the Nederland police station, sources familiar with the investigation say.
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/24/bo ... er-forbes/
Re: Dirty Hippies, A Midget, And An Old Grudge
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 5:35 pm
by Netpackrat
You couldn't make shit like that up, for sure.
Re: Dirty Hippies, A Midget, And An Old Grudge
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 6:48 pm
by First Shirt
Wasn't it Mark Twain who said "Fiction is easier to write than fact, because fiction has to make sense."?
Re: Dirty Hippies, A Midget, And An Old Grudge
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 8:18 pm
by SoupOrMan
I've heard of midget submarines, but never midget bombers.
Re: Dirty Hippies, A Midget, And An Old Grudge
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 11:37 pm
by HTRN
You know, i would have understood, if he decided to kill the cop who murdered his friend, but fifteen years after the murderer is dead, with the only people potentially hurt having nothing to do with it?!
STRING HIM UP.
Re: Dirty Hippies, A Midget, And An Old Grudge
Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 4:26 pm
by SoupOrMan
"That's the first time I've ever seen a firing squad working from the prone position, Governor..."
Re: Dirty Hippies, A Midget, And An Old Grudge
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 2:07 pm
by Rod
"...in a village shopping center where the small police station sits beneath a massage and acupuncture parlor..."
that's one of the funniest lines in a story with amazingly hilarious lines. Also a very strange mall it seems.
"John Callahan, 70, who now operates the “Carousel of Happiness” in the same shopping center as the police station, said people in Nederland were afraid of the STPs in the early 1970s."
Re: Dirty Hippies, A Midget, And An Old Grudge
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 12:41 am
by MiddleAgedKen
HTRN wrote:You know, i would have understood, if he decided to kill the cop who murdered his friend, but fifteen years after the murderer is dead, with the only people potentially hurt having nothing to do with it?!
Kinda sounds like the reparations movement.
Re: Dirty Hippies, A Midget, And An Old Grudge
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 6:19 am
by skb12172
I remember when the news came out about the murdering cop. I thought that would be the end of the story, of course. Weird.