The Swamp

Teri Leiker and Clint Ponsford shared a love story that began and ended at the grocery store.

They spent more than 30 years working at the same King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, where Ms. Leiker charmed customers with her big laugh and Mr. Ponsford could spot the peaks of the Flatirons when he went outside to wrangle shopping carts. They had both competed in Colorado’s Special Olympics and helped each other get through a lot: deaths, a breakup and the challenges of navigating this world as two people with cognitive disabilities.

About a year and a half ago, their friendship turned into something deeper. They went on karaoke dates. They watched Disney movies that Ms. Leiker adored. On workdays, they would get up at 3:30 a.m. in Ms. Leiker’s condo to make coffee, trade kisses and watch reruns of “Murder, She Wrote” before Mr. Ponsford left for the early shift.

And on March 22, they were both at work when it was all blasted apart.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 6:31 am Indianapolis

BSF21 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 8:11 am

Pruitt wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 6:31 am Indianapolis

Yea got to go to bed wondering if my best friend was dead last night so that was fun.

He's OK and was in another facility.

I'm so fucking sick of this.

BSF21 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 8:11 am I'm so fucking sick of this.

Giff wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 9:36 am Dang BSF, that's some tough shit.

Meanwhile, my fucking piece of shit state is trying to pass a law to allow people to carry without licenses. We've had three of the biggest mass shootings here in the last five years. Fuck these mutherfuckers.

A_B wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 9:59 am

Giff wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 9:36 am Dang BSF, that's some tough shit.

Meanwhile, my fucking piece of shit state is trying to pass a law to allow people to carry without licenses. We've had three of the biggest mass shootings here in the last five years. Fuck these mutherfuckers.

I believe Indiana is debating a similar law this session as well.

mister d wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 11:31 am Probably not mass shootings, just stand-your-ground and road rage type shit. And I'm sure late nights will be more exciting.

As four or five more shots went off, the pair spotted another person going into a car and retrieving a gun of their own. Moments later, Bouillat said, that person was on the ground, apparently wounded by the shooter.

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 4:01 pm About the 'good guy with a gun' fallacy...

Warehouse worker: ‘It could have been me’

As four or five more shoUYts went off, the pair spotted another person going into a car and retrieving a gun of their own. Moments later, Bouillat said, that person was on the ground, apparently wounded by the shooter.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 4:42 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 4:01 pm About the 'good guy with a gun' fallacy...

Warehouse worker: ‘It could have been me’

As four or five more shoUYts went off, the pair spotted another person going into a car and retrieving a gun of their own. Moments later, Bouillat said, that person was on the ground, apparently wounded by the shooter.

Guys who want to play Wild West gunfighter ought to remember that sometimes it’s the “hero” who loses.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 1:14 pm Kenosha, Wisconsin

Pruitt wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 1:14 pm Kenosha, Wisconsin

HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 5:29 pm Crazy but probably 0.001 of gun murders during same period.
Eta 82/7763 so ten times higher. 1%

HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 7:17 pm Others are better at math but 1% = .01 and .001 x 10 = .01 right?

TT2.0 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 10:10 pm literally the nba finals are on guys come on.

A 22-year-old gunman who posted YouTube videos filled with despair and self-loathing is suspected of killing five people, including a three-year-old girl, in the worst mass shooting in Britain in more than a decade, police said.

The Thursday night shooting spree in the seaside city of Plymouth, in southwest England, stunned the country, which has some of the toughest gun laws in the world.