Yep it's really true...that's Boulder for you

I should subscribe to the Boulder Daily Camera.  So many incredibly stupid mishaps happen in this town.  It's like reading the Onion if it were 100% true, not exaggerated in anyway yet still strange as all hell.  This is a town where bomb scares are caused by misplaced hippie crystals.  Yes, Boulder really is home to some of the most stupid yet somehow functional people in the known free world.

I say functional because these people can apparently build working booby traps.  In fact these people are so adept at building booby traps that booby traps had to be banned within the city limits of Boulder.

Ban booby traps?  How did this even become an issue, it doesn't even make sense?

It doesn't make sense of course because it's Boulder -  well until you read this article from the Boulder Daily Camera and suddenly it makes total sense, for Boulder at least.  You see, Boulder's ban on booby traps started as part of a new set of regulations for medical marijuana dispensaries.  

And suddenly everything comes together...booby traps to protect pot!  The only part that's still confusing is how a bunch of stoned hippies could sit still long enough to make a functional booby trap without collapsing into a helpless fit of drug induced laughter half way through the process at the the thought of building something that had the word "booby" as part of it's name, only to finally quit laughing and get up the floor after the urge to eat the last remaining crumbs and fragments of Doritos left in the bag could no longer be ignored.  That last sentence was way too long, but it's entirely true. 

After doing a bit more research there is no evidence that anyone has built any booby traps at dispensaries or homes in Boulder.  In fact even the police chief in Boulder has never heard of a booby traps being used in Boulder.  The whole thing only came up because someone got the wild and crazy idea that dispensary owners would rather fashion some strange Home Alone inspired traps than pay for a decent security system seeing as they're having such a hard time making any money selling pot to a town full of rich trust fund kids pretending to be hippies.  Much better and cheaper to rig a blowtorch to burn some greedy bastards hair off after he kicks open the back door than invest in heavy doors, strong locks, and a home security system.  As a business owner myself I can tell you there really aren't any liability issues if someone has their face burnt off while trying to break into your establishment. 

These people must be high...