With DNC in mind, city bans carrying urine, feces
By Daniel J. Chacon, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Originally published 01:38 p.m., August 4, 2008
Updated 11:00 a.m., August 5, 2008
Poo and pee dominated a public hearing Monday on a new law that prohibits people from carrying certain items if they intend to use them for nefarious purposes.
The law, crafted in advance of the Democratic National Convention, was adopted unanimously by the City Council.
But not before a hearing laced with comedy and profanity.
Representatives from some of the groups planning large-scale protests during the DNC this month said the ordinance was unnecessary and accused city officials of fear mongering.
"The intent of this ordinance is to try to smear protesters and make them look as if they are somehow criminal or somehow going to engage in some kind of gross conduct," said Glenn Spagnuolo, an organizer with the Re- create 68 Alliance.
The ordinance makes it illegal to carry certain items, such as chains, padlocks, carabiners and other locking devices. It also prohibits the possession of noxious substances. Two of the most frequently used examples of a noxious substance are a bucket of urine and a "feces bomb."
Police have to prove that people carrying such items intend to use them to block public access or emergency equipment or to thwart crowd control measures.
Safety Manager Al LaCabe said the law will be applied in situations when certain items are going to be used in a disruptive way. He said officers will consider the totality of the circumstances.
"Our intent for this bill is not about suppressing or chilling First Amendment rights," he said.
The hearing got personal when Spagnuolo took aim at Councilman Doug Linkhart, who was quoted in the New York Post as saying that a source told him that he knew of a home being used to store urine. "The only feces that I'm concerned about is the (expletive) that comes out of his mouth," Spagnuolo said.
Council members balked at the attack on Linkhart, noting that he was the one who requested the hearing.
Linkhart said a firefighter he trusts was his source. After the hearing, he said he didn't regret requesting it.
"I'd do it again," he said, adding that some of the points that protesters raised were valid.
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August 4, 2008
1:49 p.m.
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temurlan writes:
"We're a law-abiding group, and if (a bottle of urine is) going to be illegal, we need to turn it in somewhere."
If you have a bottle of urine to begin with, are you really a law abiding group? Why don't you turn them in to the nearest Quest Diagnostics lab. We'll wee how law abiding you really are.
August 4, 2008
2:11 p.m.
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RickyLee writes:
Urine luck!!!!!
August 4, 2008
2:13 p.m.
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7_ogNiOj writes:
Nothing like an appeal to the image of a good ol' american fireman to back up you hearsay.
August 4, 2008
2:19 p.m.
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arvada_mark writes:
Urine Ordinance? Is this what our city is going to be known for? Pales of poo & pee? Is that what it takes to be a hippie these days? My god. I hope this is all worth it. Who ever though of a feces bomb? I suppose the Liberals, huh? I mean it's non-lethal...probably.
Do we have the DNC to thank for the removal of the X-mas lights along the mall? Or is that taxpayer money...? And who pays to put them back up since they were apparently going to stay up for the entire year?
And when the "Recreate '68" idiot says, "I think some people are just going to talk about how foolish (the ordinance) is, and I think some people will want to have like a symbolic showing of how foolish it is."
Is he saying some of his people will throw feces on the police?
August 4, 2008
2:22 p.m.
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FlyfishDude52 writes:
This spagnuolo guy is a piece of work! "Turn in a bottle of urine..." Now who would use this vernacular when referring to human waste? A total idiot! Or, one whose intents and purposes will not meet the light of day. So glenn, if you're so intelligent, why would you utilize that phrase?
August 4, 2008
2:23 p.m.
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August 4, 2008
2:41 p.m.
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HopiMedicineMan writes:
Add to that the potential for contact with HIV and other diseases. Serious consequences could be seen in a broad population resulting from what seems merely a historically tasteless prank.
August 4, 2008
2:43 p.m.
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Ringmaster writes:
Just when I thought the "protesters" couldn't get any more pathetic... We've gone from Martin Luther King to urine bombs.
Welcome to the 2008 DNC!
August 4, 2008
2:45 p.m.
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BMat writes:
The "urine ordinance" seems to be a solution in search of a problem.
If you don't think it's already illegal in Denver to throw urine or feces on a peace officer then go find a Denver cop and douse him or her with a bottle of your own excrement.
Post back on this site and let us know how you're dealing with your taser wounds. If the cop just laughs it off b/c it's not illegal then be sure to let us know that too.
August 4, 2008
2:48 p.m.
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denvergirl80205 writes:
As I posted on the Post when they ran their story:
This is funny.
I can hear it now:
I am coming to "peacefully protest". That being said and for no particular reason (**and definitely not to cause problems or to hinder law enforcement**), I would also like to carry such things with me as pipes, chains, bicycle locks, pvc, padlocks, and rolls of duct tape.
August 4, 2008
2:57 p.m.
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Mike846 writes:
They want trouble, they're going to start trouble and the police are going to be put in the untenable position of defending the very people who encourage this kind of thing, the Democrat Party. Most of them were protesters at one time or another in their lives, but now they don't want anyone within 300 yards of the entrance to their little party. With the Media tent up now, you can't even see the "protest area" from the Pepsi Center. When was the last time you saw a bunch of fundamentalist Christians or Young Republicans carrying feces and urine to a "peaceful demonstration"? For that matter, who DOES? Remember this behavior, AND the reaction that it causes, when you vote in November. Hold your nose if you must, but vote Republican. Mike
August 4, 2008
2:57 p.m.
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Aliverer writes:
I often carry a container of urine for artistic reasons. Now how am I supposed to express my art? Don't censor me!
August 4, 2008
3:02 p.m.
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arvada_mark writes:
For some reason, I'm flashing back to that movie, 'History of the World, Part 1" where they are in the Victorian Times & Mel Brooks (the King) calls over the "Pee Boy." He comes running over with a bucket for Mel to pee in. Then, as if being the "Pee Boy" wasn't bad enough, Mel Brooks flips a quarter into the bucket as his tip. Yes, as ridiculous as the "urine ordinance."
August 4, 2008
3:10 p.m.
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riosmom6 writes:
Who's idea was it for Denver to host the convention, anyway?
August 4, 2008
3:16 p.m.
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ccon writes:
"The ordinance would make it illegal to carry items such as chains, padlocks and noxious substances, such as buckets of urine and so-called feces bombs, if the intent is to use them to obstruct streets, sidewalks, buildings or emergency equipment, or hinder crowd control measures."
Key phrase here is "if." If my "intent" in storing my feces is NOT necessarily to create any obstruction then, by God and Country, I have a RIGHT to keep buckets of feces! Just leave me alone.
I always thought this city didn't take s*it from anyone. But apparently they do.
August 4, 2008
3:16 p.m.
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timeandagain writes:
I think Glenn Spangnuolo needs to spend less time at Denver City Council and more time at the Highlands Ranch HOA meetings. After all, Glenn is a resident of Highlands Ranch and NOT a resident of Denver.
Glenn Spangnuolo is a poser who lives in Highlands Ranch!!!!!
August 4, 2008
3:21 p.m.
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Buckwheat writes:
Guess that bottle of DEW is going to get confiscated. "OK sir, place the Mt. Dew on the ground and take 2 steps back..Sir!. Please step away from the DEW ! ! !.
August 4, 2008
3:24 p.m.
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Dick_Tater writes:
If someone throws anything that strikes you with the intent to do harm, it is called assault. We don't need additoinal ordinances for crimes we already have laws for. I say let them bring what ever they choose to the rumble and crack open their skull if they try to use it. These idiots are all talk, the convention is going to come and go. Nothing is going to happen aside from a bunch of pansies screaming.
August 4, 2008
3:25 p.m.
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duagreen writes:
I am embarrassed as I can be at how juvenile my home town is being portrayed in the media. I moved away in 1995 for job considerations, but have always boasted of my heritage to folks I meet here in Dallas. But nowadays, I am almost afraid to mention it. What_in_the_hell is wrong with these people? The mere idea that the Denver city council is deliberating this type of legislation is pathetic. And this Glenn Spangnuolo needs to head back to the sewer grate he lives beneath and leave the rest of the metro area in peace.
August 4, 2008
3:35 p.m.
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August 4, 2008
3:36 p.m.
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vendari01 writes:
So they're going to be p.o.'d if they aren't allowed to bring the stuff to throw at people they don't like, just to make their point. Bummer. I'm tired of seeing law enforcement have to come up with ways to protect people from others who think such tactics are justified. Peaceful demonstration is fast becoming an oxymoron here, as it already is in so much of the world. I hope it doesn't go to the next stage, but the mess in San Francisco doesn't leave me very hopeful.
August 4, 2008
3:49 p.m.
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libertygrace writes:
The story is no longer about the reasons for the protests. Wish we could get back to that dialogue. It's more meaningful, to me anyway.
August 4, 2008
3:51 p.m.
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Scott writes:
Arvada_man,
Right movie, wrong character. It was Count de Monet (played by the late Harvey Korman) that tossed the coin into the bucket :-) I loved the movie!
Scott
August 4, 2008
3:52 p.m.
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Scott writes:
Hmmmmm, the libs are going to be throwing their feces at people. Sounds like the monkeys in the zoo.
Scott
August 4, 2008
4:06 p.m.
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CheapEnergyNow writes:
When urine is outlawed only outlaws will have urine.
August 4, 2008
4:07 p.m.
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tjpatriot writes:
If you think throwing feces is a valid tactic, then I don't think anyone's going to really care what your other views are.
On the other hand, if you get a good shot at Pelosi, go ahead and take it. You might make some converts.
August 4, 2008
4:07 p.m.
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CheapEnergyNow writes:
Scott,
It's good to be the king.
August 4, 2008
4:07 p.m.
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arvada_mark writes:
My bad, I haven't seen the movie in maybe 10-15 years.
August 4, 2008
4:12 p.m.
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Scott writes:
RabbiThermodynamics,
Re: When urine is outlawed only outlaws will have urine.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinetown . A group of handicapped actors and actresses performed this about one year ago here in Denver.
-- pragma proud_daddy_on
My daughter helped building some of the set pieces.
-- pramga proud_daddy_off
Scott
August 4, 2008
4:25 p.m.
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RickyLee writes:
Is Ward Churchill, Spagnuolo's best good friend, going to be in on this? Because he certainly deserves to be hit with (collateral damage) urine and feces!!!
August 4, 2008
4:35 p.m.
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not_gene writes:
Gene-
Shame on you. Are you really purporting violent methods against protestors?!? I'm really surprised.
This is a disgusting problem that needs real solutions, not crude jokes.
August 4, 2008
4:35 p.m.
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arvada_mark writes:
Put Michael Moore in the firing line also! He deserves some of what he has so graciously given us over the last several years.
August 4, 2008
4:37 p.m.
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DenverDan writes:
Michael Moore for VP.
Obama 08
August 4, 2008
4:39 p.m.
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arvada_mark writes:
Rod Smith for Mayor.
August 4, 2008
4:41 p.m.
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Alive writes:
Hummmm, Michael Moore and Obama huh? Hummmmmmm.
Laurel and Hardy?
August 4, 2008
4:46 p.m.
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ezekiel777 writes:
nahhhhh!!!!..... too easy.
VOTE NO BO.
August 4, 2008
4:51 p.m.
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MarineGrunt writes:
How did I get into this one so late... damnit!
August 4, 2008
5:08 p.m.
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westword writes:
You can sign the actual treaty here:
http://blogs.westword.com/demver/2008...
August 4, 2008
5:52 p.m.
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drkenne writes:
"The story is no longer about the reasons for the protests. Wish we could get back to that dialogue. It's more meaningful, to me anyway."
I totally agree. Based on comments, it appears that issues are not that important, the sideshow is. I guess that is why this criminal administration has been able to do what it wants, unchecked by the democrats, and the US is failing as a relevant world power except military might and oil profits.
It is amusing that more people care about pee and poop bombs, but have accepted: a failing economy; erosion of civil liberties; $4/gal gas; no real energy policy except for drill for more oil; the housing crisis; and the unjust, unlawful, and trumped up war in Iraq. How we have become a nation of sheep.
BTW, who really cares where this Glen dude lives and what does it matter. What matters is the fact there are still some folks out there who still remember what it takes.
August 4, 2008
5:53 p.m.
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snoopdog writes:
You would have to be a left wing hippy to pack a bottle of piss around, thats just sick.
August 4, 2008
7:05 p.m.
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HopiMedicineMan writes:
This convention is going to be the embarrassment of this city by historical proportions. Denver '08 will make us forget Chicago '68.
August 4, 2008
7:11 p.m.
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HopiMedicineMan writes:
No talk of urine in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, only a story about a dead cow falling on a guy, inconveniencing his day some.
August 4, 2008
7:25 p.m.
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coarizona writes:
But, it's so P.C....it's organic.
August 4, 2008
8:06 p.m.
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Hambone writes:
I can just envision Gene and MarineRunt examining crapcannon data, watching Jerry Fallwell videos and rubbing each other "for the right."
August 4, 2008
9:39 p.m.
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dirty writes:
Maybe we should all head down to Highlands Ranch with our carefully stored urine and crap and "protest" at Spagnuolo's house.
Of course being the worthless hypocrite that he is, he wouldn't recognize our right to protest...
As for Spagnuolo's assertion that he needs to "turn in his urine somewhere", don't they have toilets in the ranch. Having read some of the anti-American anarchist crap on his website about attacking cops and firefighters with (surprisingly enough) urine and crap, I don't doubt for a minute that the scum are collecting it.
August 4, 2008
10:04 p.m.
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timeandagain writes:
Yeah, Glenn, I don't think that Linkhart is "fear-mongering" in your community. Your community is Highland's Ranch. Get over yourself...... I like Dirty's idea. Let's take to the streets of Highlands Ranch with the civil discord!! That is Glenn's "community"!!
August 4, 2008
10:09 p.m.
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Ztliano writes:
I don't trust firefighters.
August 5, 2008
6:41 a.m.
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Radar writes:
Gene, I'll go low tech. and use a waterballoon launcher, those get pretty good distance!
August 5, 2008
6:47 a.m.
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August 5, 2008
7:08 a.m.
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bhaney01 writes:
Can someone explain to me how outlawing the use of urine or fecal matter is a violation of that persons first amendment rights to free speech? I've tried to see things from Spagnuolo's point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my arse.
August 5, 2008
7:14 a.m.
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bluecollarbytes writes:
Certainly they must have had the good sense to issue waivers to artists carrying poo&pee exhibits to and from galleries. Or did they? Can one still be busted within city limits even if fecal-figurines are kept safe under lock&key in one's trunk? What about someone driving from one suburb to the other traveling through Denver?
Did the council address animal manures? I see a potential loophole....
August 5, 2008
7:14 a.m.
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JonBen writes:
New name for Denver: Urinetown.
August 5, 2008
7:24 a.m.
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rellimpank writes:
<i>The ordinance makes it illegal to carry certain items, such as chains, padlocks, carabiners and other locking devices--</i>--
--glad I won't be going through D-town with my small carabiner key ring---
August 5, 2008
8:30 a.m.
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hillbillygoth writes:
great post drkenne. very sad that the average sheeple on here just doesn't get it.
August 5, 2008
8:34 a.m.
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timeandagain writes:
Froward:
"their fore" ??? Is that kind of like "froward"? (i.e. yet another illustration that you are an unintelligent idiot?)
I certainly understand we all make typos/misspellings but "their fore" is such a basic English error from about 3 different perspectives that I am thinking maybe you should take the day off!?! (or the year!)
August 5, 2008
8:36 a.m.
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Snapple writes:
Recreate 68 activists Glenn Spanuolo and Ben Whitmer are acolytes of Ward Churchill who has defended and glorified the American Indian Movement (AIM) terrorists who totally demolished the Indian town of Wounded Knee in 1973. Don't let these thugs destroy your town. Hold them responsible for the terrorism they incite. The more you give in, the bolder they will become.
The AIM defecated and urinated on the floors of people's homes at Wounded Knee.
The AIM terrorists mostly got away with their terrorist crimes because they fooled the court into accepting them as pro-Indian activists. Their lawyer Mark Lane had a relationship with the KGB. Some of their lawyers were members of the communist party. One lawyer is suspected of involvement in the murder and cover-up of the murder of Anna Mae Aquash.
Those AIM people stole Indian artifacts from the Wounded Knee museum and and people's personal property. They raped, kidnapped, and murdered. They tied a man on a cross and tortured him. They stole cars and reduced the town to rubble. The AIM also defecated and urinated on the floors of people's homes. Are these people advocates for Indians?
Ward Churchill claims (who knows what is true) he was a member of AIM security in the early 1970s. He claims he was driving across Pine Ridge on June 27, 1975, the day after two FBI agents were shot to death by the AIM. He claims he taught the Weathermen how to make bombs. He preaches violence against all kinds of people and then blames the law enforcement--police and FBI.
This is no surprise since Ward Churchill wrote anti-FBI lies for the KGB-sponsored Covert Action Information Bulletin.
"[In 1973,] The AIM people destroyed the homes of Indian residents [living in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation]. They stole valuables and burnt furniture. They shot pets, dogs and cats, and smashed children's tricycles. They defecated and urinated on floors—after having 'purified' themselves in 'sweat' rituals."
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/6103
Anarchists reportedly used urine at the Republican convention in 2000.
August 5, 2008
8:45 a.m.
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Jim_in_Erie writes:
Need anyone look any further to see how absolutely insane our country has become?
We need a law to tell people they can't carry around buckets of bodily waste, in public?
My God, the inmate's are truly running the asylum!
August 5, 2008
8:55 a.m.
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Snapple writes:
The "brave" AIMsters took old people and a little girl hostage.
Some people disappeared during the occupation and are reportedly buried around the town's ruins.
Glenn Spagnuolo and Ben Whitmer probably hope to use their young demonstrators as hostages, too.
If the kids use the anarchist techniques to chain themselves together, they might get hurt when the police try to remove them.
Those puppets are made of tubing that might even be used to connect protestors's arms by connecting them together inside the tubes. If the young demonstrators get hurt, they become radicalized.
The leaders don't care if these kids are injured. They want them to get hurt so the police will be blamed.
August 5, 2008
9:04 a.m.
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M2 writes:
I didn't hear anything about vomit....
Since these restrictions came about... I've been slamming whiskey, tequila and cheesy bean burritos.... this thread is a joke.
Let's implant fear in people... they're stupid enough to believe it!
August 5, 2008
9:13 a.m.
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sheepherder writes:
Too funny! Glenn and his merry band of morons show up at the hearing to defend their right to have poo and pee! What a moron!
August 5, 2008
9:18 a.m.
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yaakovwatkins writes:
Sorry folks, with the left planning to throw urine around, with obviously stupid Bush jokes making the rounds, Bush and McCain look reasonable and productive. If you disagree with them, brainless demonstrations do not serve your cause well. Neither does childishly and vulgarly insulting city council members.
I voted for Nixon, in part, because of the immaturity of the brainless left. I don't believe I am alone. It looks again that left wing tactics may elect a Republican President that most Republicans dislike.
August 5, 2008
9:20 a.m.
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ToeNee writes:
Froward - Your a contradiction in terms really. Your a diehard socialist yet the handle you've chosen for yourself (froward - Stubbornly contrary and disobedient) is out of line with your ideology.
Then again there is "Obstinate". Perhaps your just a liberal lemming and will follow your Messiah over a cliff no matter what?
August 5, 2008
9:44 a.m.
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temurlan writes:
Jim_in_Erie, don't think our country is insane because of a few childish morons. They are having fun planning crap like this but imagine, with this ban, the beat down that will result if an officer gets hit with human waste. The childish antics will no longer be fun and the waste thrower will spend the entire convention being "processed" in a makeshift detention facility with assualt upon an officer looming in their future.
August 5, 2008
9:49 a.m.
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RickyLee writes:
I carry urine and feces everywhere I go, it's the in thing to do, being human and all. Are they going to arrest everyone?
August 5, 2008
9:55 a.m.
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mojambo writes:
How do you prove intent to use for nefarious purposes?
August 5, 2008
9:55 a.m.
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FlyfishDude52 writes:
Fro - you are mockworthy! Good call Grandma!
August 5, 2008
10:02 a.m.
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Boulder_Badger writes:
Editor: Please correct your typo in this story.
<<Two of the most frequently used examples of a noxious substance are a bucket of urine and a "feces bomb.">>
Shouldn't it be "feces Obomba"?
August 5, 2008
10:04 a.m.
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Heidi writes:
I wonder if grandma also came up with the "69"??
August 5, 2008
10:20 a.m.
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temurlan writes:
I don't think it comes from fro being 39-40 years old.
August 5, 2008
10:37 a.m.
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T1anda writes:
OMG they ban smoking almost everywhere now they are banning pee and poop?
Denver you're just sooo PC!
August 5, 2008
11:10 a.m.
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timeandagain writes:
Despite the fact that it is an obscure word, I still maintain that it was a misspelling on his part when he signed up on the RMN website. Particularly in conjunction with the "69" part... Forward69 would almost make some witty sense. Stubborn 69, Contrary 69, Obstinate 69.... I don't really get it.
He could have saved us all of this speculation and discussion if he had used a more appropriate username... how about "BitterDolt" or "IWhineAlot" or "HaveNot"?? Any other suggestions?
August 5, 2008
11:11 a.m.
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FlyfishDude52 writes:
Good question. Is a sh!tbomb a lethal weapon? What if the feces contained the AIDS or HIV virus? Same thing for urine. I don't think either virus can survive being "out of body," but am not certain of that. Certainly there are several viruses that could be transmitted in this manner. So what type of weapons are these?
August 5, 2008
11:16 a.m.
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Heidi writes:
FlyFishDude,
Deadly weapons. So the assault charge would be changed to assault with a deadly weapon.
August 5, 2008
11:17 a.m.
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DrLesotho writes:
A lot of people missed Glenn's point. The protesters aren't upset because now they can't bring their excrement; they're upset that the city is making it seem like the law is being passed because the protesters want to bring excrement. It was already illegal to throw urine or feces on anyone/anything; the point of the ordinance is to shape public opinion and turn it against civil protest.
And this classic tactic of besmirching dissent is apparently working - all of these commenters bashing protesters who make urine bombs just bought into the city's PR ploy.
August 5, 2008
11:19 a.m.
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steel writes:
Froward's username makes him sound like an obama elitist. Froward wrote:"open a dictionary, and look up "froward" then wrap your head around 69 at the end of my moniker. Or is a Dictionary to secular for you?"
Snotty, nose-in-the-air, elitist answer. Just someone crying for the attention his mommy never gave him.
August 5, 2008
11:19 a.m.
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Heidi writes:
DrLesotho
Do you admire protesters who make urine bombs?
August 5, 2008
11:20 a.m.
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steel writes:
This whole crappy episode reminds me of the South Park episode of "The Christmas Poo".
August 5, 2008
11:24 a.m.
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steel writes:
DrLesotho writes: "And this classic tactic of besmirching dissent is apparently working - all of these commenters bashing protesters who make urine bombs just bought into the city's PR ploy."
So, you're saying you support Spagnuolo? No place to throw your poo now? Try flushing it like all normal people do.
August 5, 2008
11:29 a.m.
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FlyfishDude52 writes:
Didn't this start with spagnonothings comment about if I should find myself with a container of urine I should find someplace to "turn it in?" Hey Glenn, in the US we call those toilets!
August 5, 2008
11:30 a.m.
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steel writes:
I'm curious drlesotho... Does the poo get stuck under your finger nails when you scoop it out of the toilet? Do you have to keep it in the refrigerator to keep it fresh?
August 5, 2008
11:36 a.m.
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DrLesotho writes:
Heidi and Steel: Of course I don't admire or support anyone who would "make urine bombs" or "throw poo." I think anyone who does that at the DNC should be arrested.
My point was that groups like Re-create 68 (even with a stupid, inflammatory name like that) weren't planning on using excrement as a protest device, but now the city has made you think they were.
I don't understand the motivations of those who would protest the DNC, but I think they should have the right to nonetheless, and should not be slandered by a city trying to make them look like disgusting criminals.
August 5, 2008
11:48 a.m.
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steel writes:
drlesotho, how do you know they aren't planning to use them? Past behavior of fringe groups and anarchists shows that they are a favored tool of theirs.
August 5, 2008
12:04 p.m.
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rickg19611 writes:
A Democrat convention without feces? That's a first.
August 5, 2008
12:12 p.m.
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steel writes:
What is the shelf life of poo? How do you know if it's gone bad? Does it start to smell? And who gets the job of packing it into bombs? The new guy? Contract labor? Froward?
August 5, 2008
12:25 p.m.
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Scott writes:
steel asks: "... How do you know if it's gone bad? Does it start to smell? ..."
It's gone "bad" when it stops smelling. :-)
Scott
August 5, 2008
12:25 p.m.
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patchsl writes:
Wow... good thing our elected officials are watching out for our best interests and protecting us by outlawing the obvious. Do these people really believe what they're saying? That government is best that governs least - Glen and his motley crew should be allowed to carry excrement where ever and when ever they want.
August 5, 2008
12:29 p.m.
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steel writes:
patchsl volunteers to pack the poo bombs...
August 5, 2008
12:39 p.m.
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Charles_B writes:
This kind of sums up the modern "conservative" appeal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ybQpf...
August 5, 2008
12:41 p.m.
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Charles_B writes:
How does that taste, by the way?
August 5, 2008
12:41 p.m.
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steel writes:
charles_b what does that have to do with left-wing nut jobs throwing poo? Sometimes you really try to stretch it when you want to take the focus off of the real, liberal isssue.
August 5, 2008
12:42 p.m.
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steel writes:
moron
August 5, 2008
12:57 p.m.
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duncan writes:
Why all this talk of outlawing poo? If poo is outlawed in Denver then only outlaws will have poo.
Outlawing poo would make criminals out of the entire Denver PD and Denver City Council.
August 5, 2008
1:12 p.m.
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duncan writes:
http://blogs.westword.com/demver/2008...
I will not sign this petition. People have a right to haul their own poo around. The Denver City Council hauls theirs to the City Council meetings and so why can't the rest of us haul the stuff around?
August 5, 2008
1:19 p.m.
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arvada_mark writes:
This also reminds of a piece of art called "Blood & Seman II." It adores the cover of Metallica's "Load." Another truly sick & twisted form of expression (the artwork, not Metallica).
August 5, 2008
1:47 p.m.
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jlstaud writes:
Is anyone else in here concerned that this is the second story in the last week about poop. First 9news informed us that the city council in Englewood has decided that animal poop has to be cleaned up from our yard within 72 hours of it being laid there. Now the city council in Denver has informed us that we cannot bring poop in a bucket to throw at someone. Does it not bother anyone else that this is what the city councils are talking about? There aren't more pressing issues in our communities? Stupid politicians!
August 5, 2008
2:06 p.m.
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SockRayBlue writes:
Thank you all for contributing to this column. It has been the funniest one yet. I can't wait to have a big bowl of popcorn and watch Fox News during this DNC fandango.
August 5, 2008
2:17 p.m.
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ezekiel777 writes:
remember when federal funds were spent on "art" depicting Jesus encased in urine? that atrocity was allowed.... and all the objectors ( mostly people of faith) were labled as "backward", "non-progressives"... "anti-art" and lectured to be more tolerant....
so now when the dems find themselves encased in urine.... they strongly object and pass laws prohibiting free speech....so much for tolerance.
it all depends upon,
who's being pooed on.
oh!... i almost forgot.... VOTE NO BO.
August 5, 2008
2:53 p.m.
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Marshdale writes:
Which Wayans brother was it that carried the bottle of urine around? That was an absolute stitch of a skit in that TV show.
August 5, 2008
3:20 p.m.
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Scott writes:
Marshdale,
Damon Wayans. He also did Homey The Clown and on of the "men" for the "Men on ...." skits. The best character, imo, Damon Wayans ever did was Major Benson Payne in the movie Major Payne.
BTW, didn't his whiz jar also have a pickle in it?
Scott
August 5, 2008
3:53 p.m.
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Biff writes:
Could you imagine having to live next door to this Froward guy? I also think it is a bit irronic that all the protestors show up at the DNC....but not the GOP.
I would be willing to bet that if the IRS took a real close look at Glenn Spagnuolo....and this Froward poster...who actually might be the same person....they would uncover lots of discrepencies in taxes owed over the past several years.
And also...forget about the spelling errors....were a few years past that.
August 5, 2008
3:59 p.m.
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jay writes:
if you have poo...fling it now
August 5, 2008
4:13 p.m.
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RickyLee writes:
Spagnuolo's gonna be banned now, because he's a bucket of s__t.
August 5, 2008
4:17 p.m.
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timeandagain writes:
Biff -
As I said, spelling errors are fine... I probably make them all the time myself... I was just saying that "their fore" (as Froward said) goes well beyond a spelling error. It is incorrect in 3 distinct ways - which is pretty amazing for 1 word.
As for Glenn Spangnuolo and taxes, you need to make MONEY to owe taxes and I would safely suppose that he (and Froward) don't make any money.
I saw somewhere that that Glenn was fired from his job as a City of Longmont employee (for incompetence) and now sponges off of his wife (who is supposedly a US Government employee). Now, how pathetic is that for an "anarchist"?? The guy lives in Highland's Ranch and receives Federal benefits through his bureaucrat wife!!!
As Don King would say: "Only in America!"
August 5, 2008
4:29 p.m.
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August 5, 2008
6:43 p.m.
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SockRayBlue writes:
I just remembered..........the last time a junior senator from Illinois won an election we had a civil war.
Beside that interesting bit of trivia----What has Obama done for Illinois?
August 5, 2008
7:12 p.m.
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Mike Noe writes:
Everyone, just a reminder that you are not to post comments that are off-topic or defamatory. Please refrain from insulting other users, and stick to the topic at hand.
Thanks,
Mike Noe
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August 5, 2008
9:43 p.m.
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me2 writes:
Mr. Noe, do you really read all this stuff? Why? Can't you find a hair shirt in your size?
August 5, 2008
10:12 p.m.
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FCZ writes:
With DNC in mind, city bans carrying urine, feces
August 6, 2008
12:03 a.m.
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Phuque writes:
Headline should have been: "DNC Induces Excrement Release"
August 6, 2008
12:08 a.m.
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jax writes:
"Guess that bottle of DEW is going to get confiscated. "OK sir, place the Mt. Dew on the ground and take 2 steps back..Sir! Please step away from the DEW!!!"
OMG! LMAO!!! Well done, Buckwheat, you get the Gold on this one!
August 6, 2008
5:47 a.m.
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PooperGeneral writes:
The Denver cops have been chomping at the bit for this to happen. They have spent 50 million bucks to stop the Sh&t from flying. Lets see how well they spent that money.
The Police State USA begins in earnest in Denver.
August 6, 2008
12:38 p.m.
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SBL99 writes:
Why go through all that trouble? Just get all the skinny models out there and let them puke all over town; let them pass a law against that! Yeah! Hillary for President, Recreate 68! Protest!
Hey, don't tase me bro!
August 20, 2008
9:47 p.m.
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vowel_Movement writes:
My my, now who will be allowed to speak at the convention if all crap and pee are banned.
What will PETA say for the discrimination against the loyal Demo dung beetle?
And the Sturgis Cow Pie tossers on Harleys, are they banned in Denver too?
What is this world coming to? No bull shit allowed at a gathering of Democrats? Go Figure!