QUID HAS HEARD this week was pretty rough for our kith and kin. Aurora police reported this week that a naked man was found in a neighbor’s backyard having a psychological episode. That’s the bad news. The worse news: He quite possibly severed his own hand with a garden tool before disrobing and taking a sojourn in the neighbor’s yard Sunday night. That’s probably the worst ending to a weekend ever. Cops and fire figures were mum on the man’s condition and cited health privacy protection laws in news reports to protect the innocent, handless and shirtless. Because walking into a neighbor’s yard in your birthday suit doesn’t mean you give up your right to privacy.
QUID HAS HEARD that Aurora’s DARE program is winding down and will be folded into a larger youth program to scare kids citywide. The DARE program, rendered mostly expensive and partially useless thanks to Colorado’s legalization of marijuana, will focus on different aspects of abiding by the law and not joining gangs and such. It’s a valuable effort in schools, and one that serves a purpose, because Aurora’s youth needs to know the truth about recreational drugs — it makes Adam Sandler movies tolerable, and that’s never a good thing — and that students should be steered in more productive directions in their lives. The world has enough journalists.
QUID HAS HEARD that the City of Aurora is telling Denver hotels it has had enough. The city announced a counter suit Wednesday in Downtown Denver, alleging that Denver hotels have wasted valuable time, money and coffee in their pursuit of frivolity and pointless lawsuits — or something. Mayor Steve Hogan appeared at Union Station in Denver on their turf, presumably to signal that the city’s ready to rumble, Jets v. Sharks style. Quid applauds that type of grapes, but if you paid attention to the hype leading up to the announcement, then it’s hard to not feel let down by the announcement. After all, these are just papers folks. Hard to get excited about composing and sending nasty notes back and forth to each other.
The D.A.R.E. program rendered useless by the legalization of pot…..think about it….the people you voted for allow that to happen,,,that’s a fact….sooo you got what you voted for…so stop your sniviling.
Quid,
My grandfather used to say, “why not take what you already have and make it better”?
What Chief Oates needed to do with the D.A.R.E program was to give it a mini facelift. Not retitle, repurpose, rename and, retrain just to have another new initiative he can tag his name to.
Making the Denver Post today, is this headline: POT PROBLEMS IN COLORADO SCHOOLS INCREASE WITH LEGALIZATION.
Going further, D.A.R.E already address’ the negatives of violence and belonging to gangs.
Sometimes a little botox goes a long way.