Re: Boulder Colorado Hold Vigil For Dead Elk
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BirdEyes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A second off-duty officer, suspected of assisting in loading the animal's body into a pickup truck and taking it away to be processed for meat, also was placed on leave.
<span style="color: #CC0000"> ^^^^^^^ the only smart one</span>
Vigil organizer Jim Riemersma said he wanted to give the neighborhood an opportunity to grieve, celebrate and find “a little bit of closure.”
<span style="color: #CC0000">grieve??? closure??? for a wild animal??</span>
The vigil was held on Mountain View Road at the site of a tree memorial and near the yard where the elk was shot.
<span style="color: #CC0000">tree memorial? maybe a new national monument to come??</span>
“I know a lot of us have had a lot of anger, a lot of questions, a lot of uncertainty,” he said. “Tonight's a celebration, <span style="text-decoration: underline">a celebration of the elk. We loved him. But I think he loved us, too, because he returned to this neighborhood.”</span>
<span style="color: #CC0000">celebration of the elk? But it's at the meat processor. Elk came because it loved them??? ..not because they fed it; I'm sure that's just a coincidence.</span>
“To murder an animal who feels like he's part of the neighborhood is despicable.”
<span style="color: #CC0000">They really need to understand what murder is. Sounding like the elk may have been the one with the higher IQ. There's a reason to grieve and it isn't related to the elk being shot.</span>
The vigil included a mix of people from the neighborhood A framed photo of the elk is in the memorial tree on Mountain View Road in Boulder. Meghan Stephens, of Louisville, said she came with her husband and 14-month-old daughter to <span style="text-decoration: underline">lend support to her sister</span>, who lives in the neighborhood.
<span style="color: #CC0000">One can only hope she was expecting to help serve plates...</span> </div></div>
These people don't care about the elk they just want to feel like they're part of something. If you made a big enough deal about it, they'd come in droves to mourn the mutilation of grass after it was mowed. Anything to make themselves feel good about themselves.
