Gloria wrote:

> Shortly after we moved to Colorado in 1984 a dear friend visited for a
> week. Her conclusion: "I could never live here--there are no RULES
> for anything...." (Hmmm, I guess it's BAD to think for yourself!)

I take it you didn't live in Boulder. Did you see the story about how
Boulder mandated that residents were not allowed to disturb thousands of
starlings who pooped all over their neighborhood night after night?

http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug...ion/na-birds10

"In a town that likes to call itself the People's Republic of Boulder, where
scarcely a plant or animal is without some protected designation, the rights
of the birds to live freely trump the rights of Mapleton's residents to live
poop-free."

Bob