February 10, 2010 10:02 PM UTC

Greeley Don't Take No Shit

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• by: Colorado Pols

We had to laugh at this story in The Denver Post about a poor college kid in Greeley getting busted for trying to do the old “light a bag of dog poop on fire” prank. That’s because there may be no town in America that takes its poop laws more seriously:

Andrew Charles Donahue, 18, was booked early Sunday after he was caught red-handed with a bag of dog poop and matches headed for the front porch of Wayne Pickens, 57, a longtime Greeley resident and small businessman.

Donahue was booked for investigation of attempted first-degree arson, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and possession of alcohol by a minor, according to Sgt. Joe Tymkowych, spokesman for the Greeley Police Department.

The lesson here: don’t go playing around with poop pranks in Greeley. Just a few years ago a Democratic activist in Greeley was acquitted in a jury trial after delivering a poop-smeared mailer to the office of then-Rep. Marilyn Musgrave. But that incident did lead to one of our all-time favorite political quotes, from Musgrave spokesman Shaun Kenney: “Already we’re getting poop stuck in our mailbox.”