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Klath
08-03-2006, 12:43 AM
This sort of thing probably happens two or three times a week in Boulder but it's fairly funny all the same.

Trolls Terrorize Town's Overpasses (http://www.newwest.net/index.php/city/article/9881/C94/L94)
By Richard Martin, 7-13-06

Just a day after the public anguish surrounding the appearance (and subsequent arrests) of disrobed cyclists on World Naked Bike Day, Boulder has a new crisis on its hands: bridge trolls.

Fueled by a couple of tabs of LSD and brandishing broken golf clubs, 19-year-old Robert Hibbs, of Boulder, installed himself on the pedestrian bridge over Foothills Parkway and started demanding a dollar from each pedestrian and biker attempting to cross. When the police showed up, as they invariably do in such situations, Hibbs called himself a troll and insisted that he owned the bridge, according to Jeff Thomas, writing for YourHub.

According to Hibbs' fellow-troll Bradley Boville, the decision to commandeer the bridge arose from a dilemma we all find ourselves in from time to time: "The two had rolled a big joint," Thomas reported, "and found themselves without either a lighter or a dollar with which to buy a lighter."

[Less... (http://www.newwest.net/index.php/city/article/9881/C94/L94)]

Klath
08-03-2006, 12:48 AM
If the guys from the first post were to get together with these guys, I bet someone would have a lighter.

Nude Man Leads Police to Marijuana Farm (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/02/AR2006080201249.html)
The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 2, 2006; 4:20 PM

HIGHLAND MILLS, N.Y. -- Robert Ferranti probably has more than the usual regrets of someone found rolling around naked on a neighborhood street, babbling, immune to pepper spray and accused of punching a police officer.

Investigators following up on the Monday fracas said they discovered a well equipped marijuana growing operation in the house Ferranti rented with another man in a normally quiet community in southern Orange County.

"They were growing so much and storing so much, the odor was overwhelming," Woodbury Police Sgt. Clifford Weeks said. "For this town, it was a good-sized operation."

[More... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/02/AR2006080201249.html)]

Panamah
08-04-2006, 12:39 PM
It's Freaky Friday! :D