There was an active shooting a block from my house at like 4:00 AM. I was walking back from King Soopers on a junk food for Overwatch run with my roomie when some swat guys rush up on baseline and started yelling at us to leave now. Now I'm not about to talk to the swat fuck that noise. So I whispered to my roommate to use his magical white people powers to convince the guy to let us go since that's where we lived and it was windy and cold as fuck outside. Edit: I have a sick idea for a card game if anyone wants to hear it Swat guy is like "there's a guy shot four bullets, walking around anywhere between baseline and foothills." To which I reply "well fuck me I'm not gonna get any sleep tonight am I?" so we wait... And wait... And wait... They caught the guy 50 minutes ago as of this post. 7AM. Buddy and I got back half an hour later. I have class at 11:00. So I'll be doing my best to stay awake for my 3 hours of class.
There were 5 shootings within 5 blocks of my house last summee (2 on my block) and one mugging in front of my neighbor's house. Only 1 shooting within a block of my business this summer and one other shooting close to the house. Say what you want against run away housing prices but it had its upsides.
It's just weird because the whole image is that Boulder is where Silicon Valley is moving itself. It's literally a two-sided coin with this city: one side shiny and techy and googly, with bikes and mountain paths and ski resorts...another side with homeless people wandering the park like this is Night of the Living Dead. It feels like a Post-Spring Egypt, except in this case, Cairo and Taba are the same city.