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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLauren Boebert's neighbors' 911 calls describe threats, husband running over mailbox
Garfield County Sheriffs deputies decided to let neighbors of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert settle a dispute between themselves and the congresswomans husband after he reportedly threatened them and destroyed their mailbox.
But 911 calls from the incident, obtained by The Denver Post, show just how upset and nervous the neighbors were over their run-in with Boeberts husband, Jayson Boebert.
The calls also provide additional context into what the neighbors, in Silt, said amounted to excessive speeding, property damage, possible drunken driving and threats made from a man whose family openly and regularly carries their firearms.
Im sure hes loaded to the hilt. Do you know who his wife is? Lauren Boebert. Shes loaded. They all have guns, one neighbor told a 911 dispatcher. He just got chest to chest, face to face, looking to fight.
That additional context from the calls appears to match the limited information available in reports from Garfield County deputies. But still, Sheriffs Office spokesman Walter Stowe refused to say why deputies didnt investigate further and would not provide any additional information.
The apparent inaction drove the head of American Muckrakers a political group looking to oust Boebert to ask Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, the local district attorney and the Colorado Bureau of Investigations to investigate the relationship between the congresswomans family and the Sheriffs Office.
This was clearly a serious situation as there were two 911 calls, five deputies and at least four families involved, David Wheeler, head of American Muckrakers, wrote in an email asking for the investigation.
The incident began in the evening hours of Aug. 4, after a neighbor flagged down one of Boeberts sons asking him to stop speeding up and down their street in a dune buggy, according to the calls and a short incident report filed by deputies.
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/08/12/lauren-boebert-neighborhood-disturbance-calls-911/
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Is this 1971?
I guess they mean one of those noisy small 4-wheel vehicles the privileged buy their brats rather than the brats have to actually use their legs with a bike.
Torchlight
(3,361 posts)It's a stupid purchase I'll never make, but I remember how much fun I had when my older brothers would take me out in theirs. I also want a '76 Superbeetle (powder blue, white leather interior, Rolls Royce grill) as my dream car, so it's an easy guess for everyone where my Decade loyalties lie.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)You could easily attach/detach doors and the roof
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)Do you ever see those anymore?
dchill
(38,547 posts)...you might find one out west in a desert area. They were a blast while they lasted!
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)When I moved to California twenty years ago, I was surprised that there were so many Volkswagens compared to the Chicago area.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Not unless the owners diligently hose that crap off. And keep that under coat up.
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)It does look about as road worthy as a golf cart.
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)I'd forgotten about those!
This is the Dune Buggy though they varied a lot.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)That tin can Thing meh
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)Nac Mac Feegle
(971 posts)My dad was doing some summer work at a gas station. One of them pulled in for fuel, and an old timer that was there for some mechanical work said that The last time I saw one of those, I threw a grenade at it.
sop
(10,265 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 13, 2022, 12:37 PM - Edit history (1)
We call them douche buggy's.
Nac Mac Feegle
(971 posts)In the Industry, theyre often referred to as hood ornaments.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)I just hadn't heard the term "dune buggy" in about 50 years.
Celerity
(43,545 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)I would love one too.
Not these modern day straddle wagons.
It may have also been a golf cart?
Hekate
(90,837 posts)I feel for them.
MyOwnPeace
(16,940 posts)represented by the Congress'lady' from Hell!
Warpy
(111,359 posts)I can't imagine they'll stick around if by some miracle she's thrown out of office, they've had a taste of the big city, their diner has shut down, and the charms pf screaming yee-haw while roaring down country roads blotto and waving guns has got to be wearing thin by now. It looks like they're cutting ties to that godforsaken hellhole they call home.
padah513
(2,506 posts)Makes people feel entitled
33taw
(2,448 posts)lees1975
(3,879 posts)Two peas in a pod, imitating the Bundys from Married With Children.
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)she went for with the brown hair and glasses. I don't think that was an accident. She appears to have an effective political adviser.
ShazzieB
(16,541 posts)I've seen photos of her without glasses, but none with a different hair color.
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)Before she went into politics she looked a whole lot different. It is hard to believe, but she makes Sarah look smart.
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ShazzieB
(16,541 posts)Thanks for these. Nothing blonde came up in my search for some reason.
PatSeg
(47,613 posts)It wasn't a great look on her.
Love your Illinois postcard!
RockRaven
(15,013 posts)Quelle surprise
jalan48
(13,888 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,102 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)when these obnoxious, threatening neighbors are ripping through your neighborhood
Hopefully, word gets out on this and those cops who serve to protect are forced to step in and do their fkn JOBS!!!!
Norbert
(6,041 posts)law enforcement wouldn't be so eager to have their backs. I guess they have their marching orders.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)Some of them (not all) tend to think of their county as a feudal kingdom and kowtow to the powerful. They look at themselves as judge and jury.
hadEnuf
(2,215 posts)relayerbob
(6,559 posts)Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,447 posts)18 U.S. Code § 1705 - Destruction of letter boxes or mail
Whoever willfully or maliciously injures, tears down or destroys any letter box or other receptacle intended or used for the receipt or delivery of mail on any mail route, or breaks open the same or willfully or maliciously injures, defaces or destroys any mail deposited therein, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
LiberalFighter
(51,104 posts)sakabatou
(42,177 posts)Why hasn't Jayson been arrested yet?
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)How could anyone be friends with the sex worker and sex offender?
robleb
(162 posts)of GOP Family Values.
What a circus!
lame54
(35,326 posts)NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Dollars to donuts he's a Constitutional Sheriff.
Back in 2012 he was turning victims of domestic violence over to ICE despite the "practice being out of step with Colorado law"
https://www.aclu-co.org/en/cases/garfield-county-sheriff-persists-referring-domestic-violence-victims-ice
From a far right rally last year where he was a speaker:
"If we want to maintain law and order and our system of government, and not just have anarchy like a lot of these socialists and Marxists are trying to take us down the path, we have to have the process."
He also suggested to the crowd that COVID-19 was artificially manufactured in China, in a Wuhan Lab.
Some people may say that that was an accident, but that wasnt an accident, in my mind, he said. They knocked down our economy; it took out our president. But we are in a cold war with that country, with China.
A cameraman records Garfield County Commissioner Tom Jankovsky as he speaks in front of the Sherrifs Office Saturday. Ray K. Erku / Post Independent
https://www.postindependent.com/news/garfield-county-sheriff-commissioner-provide-conservative-take-on-covid-19-at-saturday-freedom-rally/
sop
(10,265 posts)Now they're "white trash in Congress."
2naSalit
(86,804 posts)Humpers two doors down from me. They stopped bothering me when I threatened to file for protection from them by restraining order to the cops.
IronLionZion
(45,541 posts)they like candidates who are stupid and dangerous