Fight with computer brings SWAT team

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http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/city_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2422_1661447,00.html

By Mary Butler, Camera Staff Writer
January 9, 2003

A 32-year-old Boulder man who had opened his apartment's patio door to 
enjoy Wednesday's unusually warm weather was later overheard screaming 
threats and seen waving what appeared to be a handgun, prompting a 
maintenance worker to call police. 

Officers, as a precaution, evacuated the man's apartment building and 
called SWAT officers to assist in defusing the situation. 

It turned out that the man was simply upset at his computer - which he 
had called a "bitch" he "wanted to kill," police said - and the gun 
was a plastic pellet gun, not the .45-caliber automatic handgun it was 
made to resemble. 

"It was alarming and concerning and expensive for us, but the man's 
conduct didn't warrant any criminal charges," Deputy Police Chief Dave 
Hayes said. 

Three people were evacuated from the man's eight-unit building, at 
3350 Bridger Trail in the Remington Post condominium complex at the 
intersection of 30th Street and Iris Avenue. 

The 3 p.m. incident was resolved by about 4:30 p.m. The man, whose 
name wasn't released because he wasn't arrested on suspicion of any 
crime, was cooperative once police contacted him. Police did not 
confiscate the pellet gun, but with the man's permission, they took 
another firearm from his home "for safekeeping." 

"He was very surprised, embarrassed and apologetic," Hayes said. 

Hundreds of people driving near the housing complex - which is 
adjacent to banks, a grocery store and the Alterra retirement 
community - were detoured as police officers directed traffic to keep 
residents of the complex from going home. Many people watched from 
sidewalks to find out why SWAT officers were carrying large rifles 
around the housing complex. 



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