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TheBlackAdder

(29,981 posts)
3. It's Representative Democracy for a reason. She represents the plurality of her district. 🤡
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 07:46 PM
Aug 2022

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. Who has that stick-figure drawing of the Palin family brawl?
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 07:49 PM
Aug 2022

A nation turns its lonely eyes to the artist.

rsdsharp

(12,002 posts)
5. I hope the guy called the Postal Inspectors. The weenie wagger
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 07:55 PM
Aug 2022

may be in deep shit. From the USPS Postal Inspection Service website:

Mailboxes are protected by federal law and crimes against mailboxes (and the mail inside) are investigated by Postal Inspectors. Those who are convicted of destruction of federal property could spend up to three years in jail and be fined up to $250,000.

I doubt that rural sheriff’s office has guts enough to tangle with Bang Bang’s family. The Postal Inspectors are something else again.

 

SoCalDavidS

(10,599 posts)
7. The Rural Sheriff Is Probably In Bed With Bang Bang
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 09:02 PM
Aug 2022

I don’t expect them to do shit about the family.

 

SoCalDavidS

(10,599 posts)
12. Oh, I Said That Because You Stated The Sheriff Didn't Have The Guts To Go After Them
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 11:18 PM
Aug 2022

It probably is deeper than that, and I get that you probably feel the same way.

It's not that they don't have enough guts. It's because they don't give a shit, and are perfectly fine with letting Bang Bang and her Klan, get away with whatever they want. Above The Fucking Law Assholes!

DontBelieveEastisEas

(1,211 posts)
14. I don't believe he damaged the mailbox
Sun Aug 14, 2022, 03:14 AM
Aug 2022


The caller later says,
"I was standing next to my mailbox, but he was about to run over"

As if he came close to doing it.

rsdsharp

(12,002 posts)
15. "He's running over my mail box right now! Stop you jackass! Get the fuck out of here!"
Sun Aug 14, 2022, 12:06 PM
Aug 2022

Sounds like he ran over it to me.

DontBelieveEastisEas

(1,211 posts)
16. Later clues lead you to question whether it actually did get ran over
Sun Aug 14, 2022, 12:52 PM
Aug 2022
he's running over my mailbox right now.

Notice it did not say, "He just ran over my mailbox". I think the vehicle made a motion as if it were about to run it over, but thought better of it at the last second.

Some other things that point to this are, first, the quote about,
but he was about to run over
This show it is possible that it never got ran over. He likely would have, in my opinion, used different words if it had been run over.

Second,
Later he said that law enforcement should still show up because he didn't think he should get away with it.
If the mailbox had been run over, he would KNOW that he should not get away with it.
So, to me, it sounds like he meant the menacing threats that he mentioned should have consequences.

Third
Authorities decided to let everyone work it out themselves. If there had been a mailbox intentionally destroyed, that would likely have not been the case. I acknowledge that you DO think that would be the case, and you have explained your reasoning well. I agree with, as far as I remember, your reasons about that. Still, since they didn't look to press charges, it does lend some weight to this third point.


Let me add a 4th
“Jayson’s probably drunk. ... You could probably get him for DUI, because he just drove down here,”
He says what they can get him for, but doesn't say "get him for mailbox destruction"

It is pretty clear to me now, the mailbox was not run over.

SMC22307

(8,090 posts)
10. "He's dumb as a post!"
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 09:36 PM
Aug 2022


Won't be the last time QBert and her family make the news for something like this - four entitled sons, guns, booze, and lousy adult supervision *ain't* a good mix.

Judi Lynn

(164,124 posts)
11. Listen To Rattled Neighbors Report Wild Clash With Lauren Boebert's Husband
Sat Aug 13, 2022, 10:30 PM
Aug 2022

“It’s the Boeberts, if you know who the Boeberts are,” one neighbor reported in a 911 call. “I need a sheriff out here.”

By
Mary Papenfuss
Aug 13, 2022, 07:57 PM EDT|Updated 2 hours ago

Two Colorado neighbors dialed 911 dispatchers to report an allegedly wild clash with the husband of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), according to recordings of the calls obtained by The Denver Post.

The confrontation occurred earlier this month and allegedly involved property damage and threats from Jayson Boebert, who’s known to pack firearms, neighbors reported.

A woman, who was not identified by The Denver Post, told the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office on Aug. 4 that one of the Boeberts’ four sons had been speeding in a go kart on the quiet residential street in Silt.

“He’s going 50 miles an hour, and this is a residential lane, there’s kids,” the neighbor reported. “We tried to stop him, and he just freakin’ cussed at us.”

More:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lauren-jayson-boebert-colorado_n_62f81003e4b095e78880ec6c

IcyPeas

(25,475 posts)
17. ...everybody had "agreed to work it out as neighbors. No charges. No further action."
Sun Aug 14, 2022, 03:04 PM
Aug 2022

I know the Muckrakers are trying to take Boebert down. However I need more to this story to believe it 100%. They published a story a few weeks ago saying she was a call girl and posted a picture that turned out to be someone else (Rudy Guiliani's friend). Is there video?

Eventually deputies arrived and Sheriff Lou Vallario previously told The Post that everybody had “agreed to work it out as neighbors. No charges. No further action.”
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