Colorado L.O.W.F.I

The Los Angeles Times reported on December third that Denver, Colorado, in an unusual development, will ask it’s voters if they’d like to have an interplanetary welcome wagon… hey, dibs on the ice cream concession!

Is Denver ready for a close encounter?

Voters will be asked to approve a welcoming panel for extraterrestrials, thanks to a self-described entrepreneur.

By Ashley Powers and DeeDee Correll – December 3, 2009

Reporting from Denver and Las Vegas – Forget sky-high unemployment and those two wars overseas. Jeff Peckman has more earthly concerns:

For one thing, if extraterrestrials were to descend on Denver, what’s the best way to welcome them?

Thanks to Peckman’s tireless efforts and taste for the limelight, Denver voters will be asked in 2010 to boldly approve what no electorate has approved before: an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission.

This week, Denver officials announced that Peckman had gathered about 4,000 valid signatures needed to place the issue before the 350,000 registered voters of the Colorado state capital.

If approved, the city panel would promote “harmonious, peaceful, mutually respectful and beneficial coexistence” between earthlings and extraterrestrials, in part by developing protocols for “diplomatic contact.”

Its seven members would include an expert in taking testimony from people who’ve survived “direct personal close encounters” with aliens.

And in what certainly is good news for residents of Colorado Springs or Boulder who might feel left out, the initiative says: “Members who are not Denver residents may participate from anywhere in the universe.”

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What could be better than a festival featuring frozen dead guys?

Well, as it states on the CBS4Denver site, “Nederland’s Frozen Dead Guy Days festival features a very lively coffin race each year. This year’s winning team came wearing cleats and left with a $300 champion’s check.”

And… “Frozen Dead Guy Days is a weekend-long celebration honoring the late Bredo Morstoel. He was frozen in dry ice a few years ago and his body is in a shed on his grandson’s property.”

How strange!

They have a rather sporty (but un-embeddable) slideshow of the 2008 event at this address, with links to a couple of videos as well… cbs4denver.com/slideshows/Frozen.Dead.Guy.20.673941.html