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Candlelight Vigil Held For Elk Killed By Police Officer In Boulder (Colorado)
CBS News Denver ^ | January 6, 2013

Posted on 01/06/2013 10:55:19 PM PST by Zakeet

A candlelight vigil was held in Boulder Sunday evening for an elk that was shot by a police officer last Tuesday.

The vigil was held on Mountain View Road near where the incident occurred. Some residents say the elk was considered a friend and even a guardian. They created a memorial at a tree in the area.

Two police officers who were involved in the incident have been placed on administrative leave while the Boulder Police Department investigates.

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Several neighbors told CBS4 they feel there was no reason to kill the animal, and they are encouraging others to complain about what happened.

“He was just a majestic being and it’s so sad that it came down to this, it’s heartbreaking,” neighbor Jennifer Centeno said.

Mark Rourke, a postal carrier who delivers mail to the Mapleton Hill neighborhood, told CBS4 the elk had been seen in the neighborhood over the past week or two, and that although it once cornered him on a porch, it didn’t deserve to die.

“I think it was just being defensive. I scared it when I walked through the gate,” he said. “It makes me sick, it just makes me sick. It was a beautiful animal.”

One person at the vigil called the elk a wonderful visitor to the neighborhood and he truly loved the elk.

“I cried; outraged; I lost a very dear friend,” resident Marcus O’Bryon said. “I know that’s hard for some people to believe, but he was an incredible, magnificent creature.”

(Excerpt) Read more at denver.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: animalwhackos; colorado; environmentalism; leo; liberalism; protest; wildlife
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To: Zakeet

>>“I cried; outraged; I lost a very dear friend,” resident Marcus O’Bryon said. “I know that’s hard for some people to believe, but he was an incredible, magnificent creature.”<<

I bet this overgrown boy voted for Hillary.

And sits down to pee.


61 posted on 01/07/2013 5:23:54 AM PST by ItsOurTimeNow ("This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around.")
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To: Dusty Road

You know, that’s an excellent point. It did cross that the picture showed people sitting on green grass in Colorado in January. How in the world...

Was there a “vigil” of, say, three kooks, but the media just happen to use this picture?


62 posted on 01/07/2013 5:27:48 AM PST by Obadiah (Flirtin' with Disaster)
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To: ItsOurTimeNow

Do a quick google on elk attacks. A rutting bull is a dangerous animal as is a cow with calf, they don’t play well with humans. They have killed bears, wolves, livestock and other elk a little old human ain’t nothing. Wild animals are not pets.


63 posted on 01/07/2013 5:32:54 AM PST by Dusty Road
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To: Obadiah

My bet is the picture they used is from Aurora or linked to it in some manner.


64 posted on 01/07/2013 5:36:43 AM PST by Dusty Road
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To: Dusty Road
You're right! I found it being linked to a story from 2010! It's probably even older than that:

http://skidmoreunofficial.com/archives/tag/pride-alliance

65 posted on 01/07/2013 5:57:30 AM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: fidelis

Seems they have now pulled that picture from the link.


66 posted on 01/07/2013 6:15:33 AM PST by Dusty Road
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To: Zakeet

The idiocy of this is beyond logic. Do any of them realize after sitting there for 30 minutes (or however long this goat-rodeo went on), “I’m sitting here for a FReeping elk?!?”


67 posted on 01/07/2013 6:42:12 AM PST by mykroar ("I'm afraid I can't use a mule. I have several hundred up on Capitol Hill." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Zakeet

I guarantee that the majority of those pictured at the link (not the fake photo posted here) are “pro-choice” and have no problem with babies in the womb being murdered but here they are, participating in a vigil for an animal being shot (not that I condone what the cops did). Talk about screwed-up values.


68 posted on 01/07/2013 6:57:37 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: Zakeet

Not sure where that image came from, doesn’t match the link.

I’m a block away, have 3 inches of snow in my yard, and there’s no way in he11 anyone’s in shirt sleeves.


69 posted on 01/07/2013 7:04:10 AM PST by JMJJR ( Newspeak is the official language of Oceania)
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To: JMJJR

That was the picture they origionaly post, I made a post on their website and for some reason it’s now gone.


70 posted on 01/07/2013 7:08:12 AM PST by Dusty Road
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To: Dusty Road

And now they shut down the comment section.


71 posted on 01/07/2013 7:10:33 AM PST by Dusty Road
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To: TigersEye

It can; with the right Merlot...


72 posted on 01/07/2013 7:56:15 AM PST by Carriage Hill ("I meant to say maggot, but I have a lisp.")
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To: MARTIAL MONK

LOLOLMAO! You devil...


73 posted on 01/07/2013 8:00:48 AM PST by Carriage Hill ("I meant to say maggot, but I have a lisp.")
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To: beelzepug
* Quickly spirited away to be dressed out for “personal” use

We have the local PD put down about one injured deer per week in our little town. City crews come and get the carcass. A retired city worker told me that every one of the deer is split between other workers.

74 posted on 01/07/2013 8:02:59 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (0 bummer inherited a worse economy in 2012 than he did in 2008.)
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75 posted on 01/07/2013 8:07:02 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Obadiah

Obama voters in a nutshell.

76 posted on 01/07/2013 8:09:14 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Look at all the pollution and global warming going on there, and they’re sufffocating gaia’s grass. Heretics!


77 posted on 01/07/2013 8:12:07 AM PST by TADSLOS (I took extra credit at the School of Hard Knocks)
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To: DemforBush

Either way, I’d rather have them shooting elk than someone’s family pet.


78 posted on 01/07/2013 8:55:30 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: null and void

These people are insane.


79 posted on 01/07/2013 10:05:59 AM PST by elkfersupper ( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: Dusty Road
Now compare it to the picture of the vigil that was later. Lush green grass, some in shorts most in t-shirts. Gang the temps in boulder at that time were running in the low teens.

You're right. I can't believe I didn't notice that. It also says "The vigil was held on Mountain View Road near where the incident occurred." The pic looks like it was on the CU campus which is about a mile away.

80 posted on 01/07/2013 1:01:31 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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