Hippies try to bomb Colorado police station
Earlier this month, David Michael Ansberry, a member of the STP Family street hippies group attempted to bomb a police station in Nederland, Colorado. Ansberry’s distinguishing feature is that he’s 3 feet 6 inches tall. He was arrested after the attempt when he arrived in Chicago by air. From the Boulder Daily Camera;
The group gained national notoriety after one of its members, who went by the name “Deputy Dawg,” was killed by Nederland’s town marshal in 1971.
This past weekend, FBI agents arrested David Michael Ansberry, 64, of San Rafael, Calif., in Chicago in connection with the failed bombing on Oct. 11.
From a reprint of an original article about the death of “Deputy Dawg”;
Former Nederland town marshal Renner Forbes has admitted to what many say they’ve known for 26 years – that he shot and left for dead a volatile 19-year-old hippy in his custody.
Forbes, 68, is in poor health and has been living in a Northglenn nursing home. He recently admitted to investigators for the first time that in July 1971 he shot Guy Goughnor twice, including once in the head.
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However, it was well known that Forbes, a former Air Force pilot who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, had a distaste for “hippies.”
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According to police reports, on July 17, 1971, Goughnor was drunk and causing a disturbance at the Pioneer Inn, a Nederland bar.
“Forbes took Goughnor from the bar, and that was the last Goughnor was seen alive, ” Epp said at a news conference Friday.
Forbes was eventually convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to probation – he died a few years later of an illness.
So, Ansberry set a backpack bomb outside the police station, a robot detonated it in the parking lot and no one was injured. But those hippies sure hold a grudge, don’t they?
Category: I hate hippies
Still trippin’ from that acid, dude.
My bad – I didn’t click to their name “STP”. These guys were speed freaks.
Gross, the Nederland, Colorado PD did society a favor and got another stank ass hippie off the street.
For those not familiar with Colorado, Nederland (and nearby Ward) are where the hippies fled to in the 1970’s and 80’s after the Yuppies drove them out of Boulder. Both towns are filled with junk cars, roaming dogs and weird hippy houses.
I think the hippies still have a reunion once a year somewhere in that area (the location varies). Can’t remember what it is called.
I just remember getting caught in the traffic as we were taking a group of Venturers (or Explorers, depending on the timeframe) to Colorado through Taos. (The Kit Carson National Forest outside Taos was the “lucky” location for their reunion that year.)
Man – it was a trip back to the 60’s. I suppose it still is.
Thats also where the freak kept his dead mother in a freezer in a shed in back of the house….been there a number of years ago, but don’t remember it being big enough for a P.D.?
So that saying is true? Old hippies never die; they just shrink and wrinkle?
Geez, even Bog Body people are better preserved.
Fucking stinking hippies anyway. When are they ever gonna die off. But at least this little turd will get passed around a lot in jail.
Shitbag!
Old hippies never die.
They just move to Vermont.
And put on fake accents like Bernie Sanders.
And get elected to the Senate.
Only when they want to stop for a “short one” will they pass him around! lol
IF ONLY everyone would be humane and HAVE YOUR LOCAL HIPPIES SPAYED OR NEUTERED the species might eventually die off and go extinct.
Maybe the little bastard dies in prison…would be a fitting outcome since he was attempting to kill others. Fuck that guy.
And when he was born, his father looked into his pink face and said, “more than anything, I want my son to grow up and be a hippie dwarf, who, after ingesting a bunch of amphetamines, attempts to blow up the entrance to a police station in retaliation for the 35-year-old quasi-homicide of a dude called “deputy dawg”.
Holy Crap! I was just in Nederland, quaint little town. I was questioned by deputies twice there though when I took a nap in my car, lol… the locals told me they were on edge beause of a recent bombING attempt and here is the info on TAH. I can tell you the hippies are still pretty much all over. I was offered legal weed at least twice while walking along the mountain stream. In Manitou Springs, several lI’ve in the parks. Hmm… wondering about that legalization. Most I talked to were from the Chicago area too.
The article is a scream. It reports the 1971 case as if it were news and then tosses in the pygmy bomber almost as an after thought.
Ack Ack!!!
ETM lives!
“You know what to do Johnny, You KNOW what to do….”
“Peace and love” my ass.
“He was arrested after the attempt when he arrived in Chicago by air.” He was mailed there, disguised as carry-on luggage, or what?
It was well known that Forbes had a distaste for hippies, who besides other hippies didn’t/doesn’t have that? Useless fuckers.
Nonetheless, even a hippie deserves the protection of the law.
The law should work the same for everyone, or else no-one is safe. Forbes was nothing less than a murderer. His actions were as wrong David Michael Ansberry’s were.
In his drug-addled mind Ansberry probably still associates the Nederland PD with the murder of “Deputy Dawg” and decided that if the law was not going to apply to Nederland PD he’d take matters into his own hands.
I don’t agree with him, but viewed from his perspective he had some justification for his actions.
The same laws must apply to every one, or they protect no one.
“The same laws must apply to every one, or they protect no one.”
You be careful with talk like that, Graybeard. You’re going to get this whole site shut down.
Well, OldCorps, if you hear that I’ve committed suicide, you’ll know what happened.
Only if you are shot in the back of the head and found with your thumb in the trigger guard of a gun you don’t own.
sorry Jonn, I meant to type 769.
No…if you are found that way, you know you are a clinton victim of suicide!
Has he been hanging around the Clintoon’s??
Graybeard, I agree with your argument about equal justice, but it might be pointed out that Forbes, the town Marshall, didn’t skate on the murder. He was eventually convicted of manslaughter. Ansberry’s perspective would be wrong in assuming there was a conspiracy or cover-up by the cops. Forbes was apparently arrested as soon as enough evidence was available. Even if it took 20 years.
I know, Perry G. But considering that Ansberry probably is missing a considerable number of useable brain cells after years of speed, acid, weed and who-knows-what, I doubt he can think that clearly.
Case in point – he is not exactly one of those types of guys who goes unnoticed. Real hard to argue he wasn’t there when everyone can remember seeing a hippie midget with a backpack.
As Jeff Foxworthy would say: “Here’s your sign.”
Wrong again, Graybeard. That’s Bill Engvall’s trademark.
Dang, I hate being wrong, but it happens so darn often I’m starting to get used to it.
OK – Bill Engvall it is. Shows how out-of-touch with the entertainment industry I am I guess.
Folks, this is just bizarre. Dwarfs! Hippies! Bombs! Obviously, they shoulda said “Hell, no!” to drugs. This would be headline news in the Enquirer. Maybe the height challenged person (see, I’ve been paying attention) is Elvis’ love child with a alien. Hmmm, that almost makes sense!
I lived in Boulder CO at that time. It’s a stretch to call the “STP Family” hippies. In fact they were essentially panhandles and beggars who did a lot of really heavy drugs. Many have long since died. But this guy was a hippie like TImothy McVeigh was a republican. It’s funny to me though that you guys still have it out for “hippies” these 45 years later.
A lot of the hippies I knew/saw in the 60’s were essentially panhandlers and beggars who did a lot of drugs and slept around like ID-SARC can only fanaticize about.
They just couched their actions in the name of the movement.
I guess it is easier to say “hippie” now than to say “drug-addled nonsense-spewing descendants of the hippies”.
Yeah, well, Joe, I couldn’t stand their smelly asses in the 1960s and I still can’t stand them after ALL THESE YEARS, you asswipe.
Well, ex-PH2, I have to confess some of those hippie girls looked pretty cute running around “free and wild” when I was young and hormone-driven.
I never got close enough to smell them, though.
Most female hippies were plug ugly to begin with and hippiehood excused their unattractiveness. There “love” had to be free and casual b/c no self-respecting, sober male would woo them to get some. And that explains the popularity of cheap wine (e.g., Boone’s Farm) of the era in which a hippie female’s boinker would have to drink a gallon of that crap to nail the dog. (Or so I’ve heard.) The End.
Oops! Accidentally fat-fingered it and hit the “report comment” button. Sorry. But you are right about Boone’s Farm. To a bunch of teenagers just getting broken in to alcohol, Boone’s Farm was very chugable. And I disagree with Ex-PH2’s characterization – there were some really beautiful young things.
The STP Family was very smelly, I’ll give you that.
That little fucker won’t have to drop to his knees while servicing his cell mate in prison.
” It’s funny to me though that you guys still have it out for “hippies” these 45 years later.”
It’s not funny to me. I don’t have it out for them, I dislike them. They are the 60s equivalent, to me, of today’s professional welfare moochers. I prefer those who actually contribute to the country. I have no statue of limitation for those who produce squat and make demands.
They’re just a bunch of lazy, doped-out, STD-ridden vagrants. They don’t want to work, never did, and never did anything useful, period. They are the kind of people who drive industry out of a prosperous country like England and more recently, the USA because industry damages the environment, right? But they did it through labor unions, and we see the results. And they really, really hate this country because it represents everything that they are NOT.
Oh, well, what do I care? I’m retired. And I still despise them. Always have, always will.
Crap, make that statute of limitation.
The name Nederland stirred a memory. I am a fan of the music group Chicago, up and until their guitarist Terry Kath accidentally shot and killed himself, then their style changed and I didn’t care for their new sound. They recorded some of their albums in Nederland. The article mentions Pioneer Inn and through google-fu found this history of Pioneer Inn:
http://www.pioneerinnnederland.net/credits.html
Nederland sounds like a place that would not suit me, wouldn’t mind driving through and having a beer at the Inn.
Nederland used to be a funky place for mountain men and misfits (in the best sense of the word). Now it is getting pretty glitzed out like a lot of stuff near the Front Range.
Jeeeezuss! I read the lead-in and all the rest, still can’t figger out who’s what or when- got the where. Don’t use that shit-it’ll stunt yer growth (I guess).
So, what`s the difference between Shorty here and the guy who pushed obama`s go button, Bill Ayers? Beside mabe a few inches, not a hell of alot, other than Ayers probably never dropped as much acid and he got himself a tax-payer sponsored education. The creepy looking midget will do time in the slammer while Ayers will continue his life as a tenured professor brainwashing our children and teaching Alinsky tactics in order to take down American values. Fucking communists.
Oh, BTW-HRC did her thesis on, yep, Saul Alinsky.
Ayers is not teaching any more. He’s retired from that endeavor.
Well, that is good to know. I singled out Ayers because he and/or his crew have also bombed police stations. Frightening that academia has been hijacked by cretins of his ilk.
He may be retired from “teaching” but he isn’t fully retired. He’s resumed his second love of agitating and instructing the younger followers of his on “direct action”.
I vaguely recall a faction of the “STP Family” that was or still is based out of Haight Ashbury (SF) and are a splinter group the MF’rs out of NYC, another nasty
group. Lombard Gate (Presidio of SF) was the real deal anarchist and communist anti-war protesters favorite spot to hang out on Friday afternoons. Fuck this guy. Fry his ass.