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Man Admits To Blowing Up Mailbox With Pipe Bomb To Impress Girlfriend
denver.cbslocal.com ^ | April 25, 2016

Posted on 04/26/2016 3:06:22 PM PDT by PROCON


ARVADA, Colo. (CBS4) – A man has been charged in connection with a Postal Service mailbox that was destroyed by a pipe bomb in Arvada last week.

According to the arrest affidavit, John Henry Bowman, 45, admitted to blowing up a mailbox located in a parking lot on the 9500 block of Ralston Road with a pipe bomb.

Arvada police said just before 2:30 a.m. on April 21 several people called about a suspicious noise. Police responded but were unable to determine what the calls were about because they came from several different areas.

At 7 a.m. another person called police and alerted them to the exploded mailbox, which was in front of a building that formerly housed a Safeway grocery store.

Inspectors with the U.S. Postal Service and the ATF joined Arvada police in the investigation and were able to track down Bowman after reviewing police records of suspicious vehicles from the night of the explosion. They found an officer ran the plate on Bowman’s car, which was in the area around the time of the explosion.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: girlfriend; holdmuhbeer; mailbox; pipebomb; usps
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To: Texan5

Hopefully your IRS refund check wasn’t in there.


21 posted on 04/26/2016 3:34:18 PM PDT by Colo9250 (Vote for Trump because your future depends on it. Vote Cruz, we lose)
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To: PROCON

Should have just taken her fishing...


22 posted on 04/26/2016 3:34:18 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Donald Trump - Simple solutions for the simple minded...)
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To: PROCON

The explosion also stunned a nearby beeber.


23 posted on 04/26/2016 3:34:34 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: PROCON

Brilliant! /s


24 posted on 04/26/2016 3:36:04 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: PROCON

Henry Bowman? You’d think he’d be aware of unintended consequences.


25 posted on 04/26/2016 3:39:29 PM PDT by printhead (Standard & Poor - Poor is the new standard.)
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To: PROCON
I don't get how it's supposed to impress the guy girlfriend unless it's some kind of weird Freudian thing about big pipe, explosion and box?
26 posted on 04/26/2016 3:42:06 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: printhead

I’m surprised it took 25 posts...


27 posted on 04/26/2016 3:42:44 PM PDT by Christopher
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To: DesertRhino
And when did our government lose its sense of humor?

Governments are not designed to have a sense of humor.

28 posted on 04/26/2016 3:56:50 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: PROCON

Yikes!

I was thinking firecrackers in a personal mail box.....

From the kids I grew up with in the 60’s, there’d be about 2 dozen in prison...


29 posted on 04/26/2016 4:00:48 PM PDT by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: PROCON
Man Admits To Blowing Up Mailbox With Pipe Bomb To Impress Girlfriend

Well was she hero? What about your cellmate in Federal PMITA Prison? Is Bubba the rapist impressed?

30 posted on 04/26/2016 4:03:41 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - voted Trump 2016 & Dude, Cruz ain't bona fide)
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To: PROCON

31 posted on 04/26/2016 4:04:00 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Cruz and Kasich are in COLLUSION with the establishment GOP - cannot be trusted!)
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To: dp0622

John Henry Bowman, 45,

Kids these days!


32 posted on 04/26/2016 4:04:07 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: G Larry
From the kids I grew up with in the 60’s, there’d be about 2 dozen in prison...

Larry, back in the 60's, we were able to buy firecrackers, M-80's and larger, out of the back of COMIC BOOKS!

33 posted on 04/26/2016 4:04:54 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON; Gamecock

Probably a Van Buren boy.


34 posted on 04/26/2016 4:05:02 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

I’m only 47!! Does that mean i get to act like an @##$#$ a few more years?!?! :)


35 posted on 04/26/2016 4:05:36 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Larry Lucido
John Henry Bowman, 45,

Kids these days!

And his aforementioned sweetie was 20.

36 posted on 04/26/2016 4:07:29 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: dp0622

Whippersnapper!


37 posted on 04/26/2016 4:10:49 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

lol! Ah, i was enough of an @#$@# in my 20s and 30s for a lifetime.

I used to make fun of people my age in Atlantic City.

Now I have to make fun of myself :)


38 posted on 04/26/2016 4:13:07 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: PROCON

When I was younger the way I impressed a woman was by taking her on a flight to some nice location for lunch. When I was in California, that usually meant a flight to Catalina Island and lunch at the airport restaurant. I don’t think blowing up mailboxes would have gotten me anywhere other than jail.


39 posted on 04/26/2016 4:21:32 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Talisker

“Governments are not designed to have a sense of humor.”

Why? Its supposed to be of, by, and for the people. And we are all funny. A government that cant have a sense of humor is useless.


40 posted on 04/26/2016 4:25:23 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,)
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