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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
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![](http://cdn3.blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/files/2011/10/CandlelightVigil033lg.jpg)
Those bad old cops wouldn't have shot Elmo the Elk if we had stricter gun control laws ... to keep dangerous weapons away from the police!
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posted on
01/06/2013 10:55:35 PM PST
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
I would have had a charcoal grill vigil!
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:02:24 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
To: Zakeet
The investigation will begin as soon as the Police Elk Barbecue is finished.
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:06:03 PM PST
by
count-your-change
(You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Paleo Conservative
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:07:06 PM PST
by
Red Steel
To: Paleo Conservative
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:08:14 PM PST
by
jospehm20
To: Zakeet
I'm surprised the cops in Banff, Alberta aren't going crazy shooting the elk that roam all over town and on the golf courses!
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:09:55 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Zakeet
Elk are a renewable resource.
To: count-your-change
![](http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n310/Keboch/imagespolar-20bears-20penguin-20bar.gif)
Does elk go with penguin?
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:12:12 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Who is John Galt?)
To: Zakeet
Elk is some might good eating. Yum yum!
That said, as silly as the vigil/local response is...I’m not entirely sure I buy the officer’s story, either. It may have been that the elk was injured and needed to be put down, or it might have been a case of poaching (if that’s the correct word used here). If I ran across an animal sick or injured enough that it needed to be put down, I’m not sure I’d be that eager to have it wind up on my dinner table.
Just sayin’.
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:14:30 PM PST
by
DemforBush
(You might very well think that. I could not *possibly* comment.)
To: Zakeet
It is another outbreak of “Boulder Dementia Syndrome”. Note the clear loss of objectivity in the following post by a consummate career Trough Feeder, PostalPerson Mark O’Rourk said of the elk which had threatened him and cornered him on a porch recently, “..it didn’t deserve to die.”
Yes, indeed, PostalPerson - let over a quarter of a ton of mad meat introduce you to its antlers and kick you into downtown Boulder with its pointy hoofs.
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:15:26 PM PST
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."..)
To: Zakeet
See what happens when someone (ME) jump to conclusions just by looking at the headline.
I thought maybe one of the boys got rowdy at the Sat night BPOE dance.
Sorry.......................
One might ask if these mourners had a life or something but....
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:16:06 PM PST
by
xrmusn
(6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
To: Vince Ferrer; Grampa Dave; forester; tubebender; BOBTHENAILER
"Elk are a renewable resource."And so sustainable too!!!
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:18:01 PM PST
by
SierraWasp
(Conservative, constitutional & capitalistic thinking is the last refuge from pussy liberal thought!!)
To: Zakeet
Let’s see if I understand this correctly:
* No report filed
* No proof that elk was actually injured
* Quickly spirited away to be dressed out for “personal” use
Certainly sounds like poaching to me. Will there be any repercussions? Very unlikely.
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:22:41 PM PST
by
beelzepug
("Why bother creating wealth when you can just redistribute it?")
To: Zakeet
![](http://cdn3.blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/files/2011/10/CandlelightVigil033lg.jpg)
How many ants are being murdered by the people in that picture? :o)
To: Zakeet
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:24:59 PM PST
by
tallyhoe
To: DemforBush
The elk was killed on Tuesday near the intersection of 9th and Mapleton, and Beckner said the incident wasnt reported by either officer until residents began to ask questions about the killing. He said Carter, who was on duty and on patrol in the area at the time, ended up admitting he spotted the elk and felt the animal needed to be humanely euthanized because it was injured.After Carter shot and killed it with a single shot, he called Curnow. After Carter posed for a photo with the elk, Curnow took the elk in his own vehicle to process the meat for personal use, Beckner wrote in a letter to residents on Friday about the matter.
Unless the jornolister left something out the cop didn't do it right. You have to call a DoW officer to dispatch injured wildlife and you have to get permission from the DoW to keep the carcass. They don't use pistols to dispatch injured deer and elk either. I think that explains why they didn't file a report.
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:26:15 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Who is John Galt?)
To: Zakeet
Cops, shooting an elk in BOULDER? This is so unrepentant, so guaranteed to inflame that open air lunatic asylum, that i’m proud of these cops.
There is just something almost fine about it.
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:28:16 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: Zakeet
Did they mistake it for a dog?
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:30:10 PM PST
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: Zakeet
Just went to the website and read the article. The cop POSED with his elk, for a trophy photo, holding the antlers! ROFLMAO
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posted on
01/06/2013 11:31:05 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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