Posted on 07/14/2006 9:40:48 AM PDT by Starter
Boulder deputy clubs menacing bridge "troll"
By John Ingold
Denver Post Staff Writer
DenverPost.com
A golf club-wielding man who tried to extort tolls from people crossing a bike path bridge while claiming to be the bridge's troll is facing menacing and drug charges, police said.
The troll's reign of terror came to an end, police said, when he threatened an off-duty Boulder sheriff's deputy, who snatched the clubs from the man and whacked him with one. Even after a Boulder police officer, with a drawn stun gun, arrived and ordered the man to the ground, the man "continued to be verbally antagonistic, yelling that it was his bridge ... and that he was a troll," according to a police report.
The incident happened July 6 along the Bear Creek bike path near Colorado Avenue and Foothills Parkway.
Boulder police said they arrested Robert Hibbs, 19, on suspicion of felony menacing and drug possession and Bradley Boville, 18, on suspicion of drug possession and menacing.
Boville told officers that he and Hibbs had ingested a hallucinogen and then wanted to smoke a large marijuana cigarette that officers found on Boville, according to the police report. However, the pair didn't have a lighter so they decided to go to the bridge and start "asking" people for money to buy a lighter, the report said.
When sheriff's Sgt.Kevin Parker rolled down the path on his bike, he said he saw the two men holding golf clubs and blocking the bridge.
"It will cost you a dollar to cross the bridge," the men said, according to Parker's statement in the report.
When Parker tried to ride around them, he said, Hibbs told Boville, "Go stab that guy," police allege. Boville moved toward Parker with a jaggedly broken golf club, Parker said. Parker said he retreated and called 911.
Hibbs then approached the lawman with two golf clubs, hit the tire of his bike and raised the clubs threateningly, Parker said in his statement. Parker said he grabbed the clubs, smacked Hibbs on the shoulder and ran.
According to the police report, witnesses said the pair threatened others on the bike path before Parker arrived.
As if Boulder isn't odd enough already, now it has bridge trolls.
Two men recently attempted to charge people a dollar to cross a bridge in a park near the intersection of Foothills Highway and Colorado Avenue and allegedly threatened to stab an off-duty sheriff's deputy with a broken golf club after he refused to pay.
Witnesses said they heard the two shouting lines from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail about how people "shall not pass."
Just a bit of humor for the morning.
We have our own ways of dealing with such.
Oh my, a report of REAL trolls.
Where are all the slapping pics? They need a workout on this one...
Well, a blast from a stun gun could be considered a ZOT, of sorts;)
Were there any 'kitties' near the bridge?
:0)
Trip, trap, trip, trap.
Sounds like the troll was doing a little more tripping than trapping.
I was going to say that they should have called you guys.
So... what's their DU screen names?
Are they related to the Kennedy's?
Who knew Madelein Albright was in Colorado?
When a Kennedy runs off a bridge, he doesn't stay around (even if his passenger does).
I heard that the "ren fest" had moved... Hmmm... Boulder?
Boycott Boulder
It was sort of creative and it sounds like they didn't actually hurt anyone or damage any property. Still, they're in heaps of trouble, and it would have been a whole lot easier if they'd simply gone to the bridge and flagged people down and asked for a light. I suppose they realize that now that their hallucinogens have worn off.
I believe the off-duty sheriff's deputy was a kitty in disguise.
LOL!
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