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Man Admits To Blowing Up Mailbox With Pipe Bomb To Impress Girlfriend
denver.cbslocal.com ^ | April 25, 2016

Posted on 04/26/2016 3:06:22 PM PDT by PROCON


ARVADA, Colo. (CBS4) – A man has been charged in connection with a Postal Service mailbox that was destroyed by a pipe bomb in Arvada last week.

According to the arrest affidavit, John Henry Bowman, 45, admitted to blowing up a mailbox located in a parking lot on the 9500 block of Ralston Road with a pipe bomb.

Arvada police said just before 2:30 a.m. on April 21 several people called about a suspicious noise. Police responded but were unable to determine what the calls were about because they came from several different areas.

At 7 a.m. another person called police and alerted them to the exploded mailbox, which was in front of a building that formerly housed a Safeway grocery store.

Inspectors with the U.S. Postal Service and the ATF joined Arvada police in the investigation and were able to track down Bowman after reviewing police records of suspicious vehicles from the night of the explosion. They found an officer ran the plate on Bowman’s car, which was in the area around the time of the explosion.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: girlfriend; holdmuhbeer; mailbox; pipebomb; usps
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To: DesertRhino
Why? Its supposed to be of, by, and for the people. And we are all funny. A government that cant have a sense of humor is useless.

Well let's put it this way... Liberals think conservative uproar over gay marriage is hysterical.

So who gets to determine what's funny in government?

41 posted on 04/26/2016 4:29:59 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: PROCON

That’s illegal? ;^)


42 posted on 04/26/2016 4:32:02 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: G Larry
I was thinking firecrackers in a personal mail box.....

That's what I was thinking. A stupid kid threw some lady-finger firecrackers in a rural delivery mailbox.

From the look of remnants of that US Postbox, that was a very large pipe bomb. Those postboxes are heavy gauge steel.

43 posted on 04/26/2016 4:55:25 PM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Flick Lives

Hmmm.in Colorado- the result of too much pot consumption.


44 posted on 04/26/2016 5:16:45 PM PDT by growingpains
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To: PROCON

I bet a few of those rivets took off nicely.


45 posted on 04/26/2016 5:21:40 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Colo9250

I live in a remote rural area-no one out here gets money in their mail box on the road...


46 posted on 04/26/2016 5:43:25 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: PROCON

That’s a little more than a couple of M80s on country road


47 posted on 04/26/2016 5:53:37 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Ted Cruz's antics show he is playing for 2020 against Hillary)
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To: PROCON

John Henry Bowman, 45...

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45!? Not 15! Good grief! How does a man live to be 45 and remain so useless. If the GF was indeed impressed she useless, as well.


48 posted on 04/26/2016 5:59:04 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: PROCON

Guy must be from the low end of the gene pool.


49 posted on 04/27/2016 4:07:15 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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