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HERE’S a touching story of the times. The Boulder, Colorado, Daily Camera reported a couple of weeks ago that an armed police SWAT team had to be called when a 32-year-old man from Boulder was overheard screaming threats to a “bitch” he wanted “to kill” in his apartment. The man, who had earlier opened his patio door because of the unusually warm weather, was seen brandishing what appeared to be a handgun.

As a precaution, officers evacuated the apartment building and closed the surrounding streets to traffic before moving in on the man – only to discover that the “bitch”…

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