Last Friday the schools in Granby were in a Lock Down Mode. Apparently there was some guy walking by the schools carrying a rifle and someone called the police.
Ian and I saw this man. We were on our way back from the "feed store." "Feed Store" is surrounded by apostrophes because it's not really a feed store. My friend Zena, who was here a few summers ago, went with me to the feed store. It's actually in the Miller's barn next to the goats and birds they raise. There's feed stacked all around and you pick out what you want then you leave your money in a "lock box." "Lock box" is also surrounded by apostrophes because it's not really a lock box. It's a metal box but it doesn't lock. There's a note on it that says "Please do not steal any money. We've lost the key." The note is dated 1997. True story. Ask Zena.
Anyway, we were on our way back from the "Feed Store" driving by the high school and we saw this man. He was dressed in camo and he was carrying a rifle. It didn't worry either one of us. Grand County is 70% public lands and we have multiple hunting seasons; doe season, buck season, mule deer season, badger season, elk season, cow elk season, cougar season, loose cow season, runaway horse season, lost goose season...it goes on and on. So seeing someone carrying a rifle along the road didn't seem too weird to me or Ian. We didn't call the police.
Apparently someone, obviously someone who doesn't live here (most of the tourists here are from Texas - I didn't think someone from Texas would worry about someone carrying a rifle) so I figure they were probably from "THE FRONT RANGE." It took me a while to learn that THE FRONT RANGE is synonymous for Oregonians learning someone is from CALIFORNIA - this is not a compliment. THE FRONT RANGE is anyone not from this side of the Rockies - flatlanders, city folk, Democrats. They probably called the police.
The local police, following protocol and at the same time wondering which local bozo was walking downtown with his rifle in plain view, shut down the schools. They converged on the guy, probably excited that they had something to do that didn't involve FRONT RANGE PEOPLE, and then leaned against their police trucks (no cars here - only 4-wheel drives) and asked him how the hunting was. The story was that he got tired of waiting for his two buddies to pick him up - they were also carrying rifles and wearing camo, and decided to walk home.
No one was arrested, although he was probably cited just because the police thought they should, on some minor offense, like walking on the wrong side of the road or wearing camo in public.
It was quite the story in Granby. Mainly we were all laughing at the person who called the police - he or she probably won't ever come back here. Ian thought it was hilarious since he and his friends are always walking around town with their Air-Soft guns, he hopes someone calls the police on them, he thinks it'd be cool to be arrested, especially by Officer Sanchez - he's cool.
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