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Estes Park Garbage, where you get your local news

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One day before everyone else. And it's always free. You want the news before everyone else? You want answers while the other suckers are sitting on their thumbs? Come to epgarbage.blogspot.com

Estes Park's new police chief is

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Ian Fleming. Jimmy Stewart. Whoever, the bumbling James Bond guy.

An open letter to Parking Ambassador and all-around trial balloon floater Christy Crosser

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Christy Crosser, who is tied like an umbilical cord to the town, has given her opinion. Bow down, everyone, and worship at the altar of your overlord. Ms. Crosser has just informed the town that she sat in the audience during the recent study session. Bully for her. So did I. This gives us, apparently, a bulletproof pulpit to say or make up whatever we want to in support of whichever side we are on. I will grant that she is the parking ambassador, and that she is in direct contact with more people about parking than I am. I would hope that were the case, or why is she being paid to be a parking ambassador? I happened to sit close to her in the audience, within viewing distance, and noted the she was always shaking her head in pleasure when someone she supported spoke on the topic of road construction and the impact or lack of impact on businesses, and shaking her head in disdain when something she disagreed with was presented. This is obviously her right, but it makes me ...

24 hours later, and it is amazing how 480 news outlets can repeat the same information

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without adding anything new. No wonder journalism and newspapers are dying. Here are two really tiny things that are new: I already figured based on his previous addresses and his girlfriend's numerous videos from Marine-type activities that he was in the military. My question is (and at least the Colorado Springs Gazette could pretend to investigate this or start stumbling towards an answer, instead of just regurgitating Kyle Patterson's three paragraphs) - Is he still in the millitary? Could we enlist some of the military to assist in the search? And then the Daily Mail across the pond, bless them, produces a wonderful clickbait headline by somehow indicating the text he sent to his friend from the top of Longs Peak was somehow "chilling". What part of telling someone you've arrived at the top of a mountain is chilling? Go back to the previous entry to see how skeptical I am of even this straightforward text being real or true, but regardless, the o...

So the guy texted a friend (Natalie Dodgen?) at 1:00 p.m. yesterday that he was on top of Longs Peak

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How do we know that was accurate, or truthful? How do we know he wasn't planning to disappear? Here we go expending thousands of dollars again on search efforts directed towards the very places we should be looking, IF HE IS TO BE BELIEVED, and not on the very places we SHOULD actually be looking if we stopped taking everything unprepared or unreliable witnesses provide us at face value. Last night wasn't particularly cold, so he could have survived everything but a significant injury. If we haven't found him by tomorrow, on the pretty straightforward non-technical routes people take to get up and down Longs Peak, he is not there, and we need to call off the search efforts, unless the family wants to participate/pay, because he is either dead or dissembled into thin air. Search Efforts For Missing Man On Longs Peak In Rocky Mountain National Park Today, May 13, Rocky Mountain National Park rangers began search efforts for Lucas Macaj, 23, of Colorado Spring...

That bad smell coming from Carriage Hills

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The stench known as Taranis (aka Taranis Ore Ass Rex) located on Conifer Drive is up to their "pump and dump" tricks again. Whenever you see an over-the-counter penny stock traded in America with supposed mineral riches somewhere in distant Canada, you can bet your bottom dollar (as Taranis hopes you do) there is nothing in the ground at either site. Taranis is headquartered [sic, if you define a modem and a Walmart printer as HQ] in Estes Park (lucky us), not exactly a hotbed of mining expertise, but if a retired guy has been chased out of three other communities and wants to work his scam out of Carriage Hills, who are we to interfere? The various exotic descriptives ("Thor", "Thunder Zone", "The Tusk") for the supposed exploration site are written for the layman or the teenage video game enthusiast, with some actual or made-up technical terminology (porphyry, epithermal) thrown in, all of which pretty much translates to "bullshit, bu...

Waiting for the other shoe to drop

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Let's go back 10+ years ago, to March 2014, when Kirby Nelson-Hazelton was a Visit Estes Park staff member, Scott Webermeier was on the board of directors, and Elizabeth Fogarty had been selected yet had still not replaced the retiring Peggy Campbell as CEO. Even back then, the CEO was pulling in over $100K per year. Scott Webermeier, who left the school board under something of a cloud in 2003, and failed a re-election attempt in 2007 (this all relates to Richard Kastendieck, the superintendent of Estes Park School District R-3, who was convicted of embezzling more than $60,000 from the district) was a big Fogarty supporter, and was not a big fan of some of the other school board members who witnessed his interactions with Kastendieck. These folks not only remained in Estes Park, but began running for various board positions in other fields. This is all water under the bridge, but the rift in the current Estes Park political scene relates to which side you were on in 2003, w...

It would be helpful if Weld County would share information

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The connection for this, as far as the seemingly out of nowhere mention of Estes Park, may be this in that Amber, the woman with the dead unicorn tattoo, is associated by address to the Rettenbergers, living near Fish Creek, but either Weld Country isn't really that interested in finding her, or they know more about Estes Park than they are telling. Although Kirby H. demanded to be missing, and was last seen getting a skull tattoo, she is five years younger than Amber, and resides in a different neighborhood. Why Amber has what appears to be conglabata covering her chin is unclear, although meth is a wonderful dermatologic sculptor.