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Boulder deputy clubs menacing bridge "troll"
Denver Post ^ | July 14, 2006 | John Ingold

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.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: democratvoter; montypython; troll; zot
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Wait. It gets better. From the Rocky Mountain News' version of the story (titled "Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to toke we go", which I guessed would get moved to chat on title alone) comes this:

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.

1 posted on 07/14/2006 9:40:49 AM PDT by Starter
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To: Starter

We have our own ways of dealing with such.


2 posted on 07/14/2006 9:42:40 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Americanwolf; AQGeiger; Beaker; BenLurkin; baltodog; BJClinton; big'ol_freeper; Borax Queen; ...

Oh my, a report of REAL trolls.

Where are all the slapping pics? They need a workout on this one...


3 posted on 07/14/2006 9:42:50 AM PDT by Old Sarge
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Well, a blast from a stun gun could be considered a ZOT, of sorts;)


4 posted on 07/14/2006 9:44:58 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Frank_2001

Were there any 'kitties' near the bridge?

:0)


5 posted on 07/14/2006 9:46:05 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Starter

Trip, trap, trip, trap.

Sounds like the troll was doing a little more tripping than trapping.


6 posted on 07/14/2006 9:46:11 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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All they needed to do is send the biggest 3rd goat across. I thought that was the traditional remedy for a bridge troll.
7 posted on 07/14/2006 9:46:26 AM PDT by Gator101
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I was going to say that they should have called you guys.


8 posted on 07/14/2006 9:47:37 AM PDT by CholeraJoe ("I don't know why I have a conscience. All it does is f*ck with me." Korn)
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To: Admin Moderator
We have our own ways of dealing with such.

That post would have gone SO much better if you'd have posted a pic of Darth Vader above it.

;-)
9 posted on 07/14/2006 9:47:39 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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This is really the prototypical Boulder story. Sort of the Ur tale of the People's Republic.

First, the two zone out on some drug. Then they exhibit the kind of intellectual prowess for which Boulder is known by failing to provide themselves with ordinary fire. Then they try their crude entrepreneurial skills on a cop on a bike path. With a broken golf club.

Yep. That's Boulder.
10 posted on 07/14/2006 9:48:29 AM PDT by Gingersnap
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To: Starter

So... what's their DU screen names?


11 posted on 07/14/2006 9:51:31 AM PDT by rock_lobsta
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Are they related to the Kennedy's?


12 posted on 07/14/2006 9:56:38 AM PDT by downtownconservative (Murtha is truly an EX-Marine...his motto, "nunquam fidelis")
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To: downtownconservative

Who knew Madelein Albright was in Colorado?


13 posted on 07/14/2006 9:59:50 AM PDT by JMS
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Are they related to the Kennedy's?

When a Kennedy runs off a bridge, he doesn't stay around (even if his passenger does).

14 posted on 07/14/2006 10:01:48 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Loose lips sink ships - and the New York Times really doesn't have a problem with sinking ships.)
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To: Starter; beaversmom

I heard that the "ren fest" had moved... Hmmm... Boulder?


15 posted on 07/14/2006 10:10:27 AM PDT by onef
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Boycott Boulder


16 posted on 07/14/2006 10:17:01 AM PDT by mountainlyons (Hard core conservative)
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To: Starter

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.


17 posted on 07/14/2006 10:25:50 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Bigh4u2

I believe the off-duty sheriff's deputy was a kitty in disguise.


18 posted on 07/14/2006 10:27:00 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

LOL!


19 posted on 07/14/2006 10:28:29 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Starter
A troll, you say?


20 posted on 07/14/2006 10:30:46 AM PDT by steve-b ("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
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