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November 26, 2009 11:51 PM UTC

What says Thanksgiving more than...

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  • by: Adam Schrager

(Teepeeing the Governor’s Mansion would fulfill several of our childhood fantasies – promoted by Colorado Pols)

…the Governor’s Mansion getting teepeed. Here’s the story:

Colorado’s governor’s mansion has hosted dignitaries like Dwight Eisenhower in its 101-year history, but no one’s sure that what happened to the home of Colorado’s First Family over night has ever happened before.

Gov. Bill Ritter (D-Colorado) and First Lady Jeannie Ritter were awake shortly after dawn this morning looking up at numerous rolls of toilet paper hanging from trees in their yard.

“I still have two kids at home that are teenagers,” the governor said right before he went on a morning bike ride. “It could well be that they have been honored with being teepeed. It’s very likely it involves high school students but we won’t mention what their party affiliation might be.”

The Ritter family’s four kids are staying at the mansion this Thanksgiving weekend with the older two sons back from college. Before starting to clean some of it up, the First Lady also laughingly dismissed any concept that it was a political statement. Others guessed if the home had been egged or soaped, then the culprits would have been playing politics.

“I’ve got way too many high school kids coming in and out of here to think this is a political statement,” Mrs. Ritter said. “Actually, political statements are made with a different kind of paper.”

The 1908 Georgian revival home, officially known as the Governor’s Residence at Boettcher Mansion, has been the personal residence of every Colorado First Family since the early 1960’s. It is located at the corner of Logan and East 8th Avenue in Denver. The Ritters have four kids: August, Abe, Sam and Tally. The younger two still live with their parents.

If you want to see the pictures… go here: http://bit.ly/81kOfw

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  2. no one is above the joys of being the object of adolescent pranks!

    My favorite was the class prank at my high school by the graduating class one year ahead of me: They put a fully intact Mustang inside a completely enclosed courtyard. The only ways they could have done it, without a very large crane (that presumably would have drawn attention), are with a system of ramps that, if you examined the spaces involved, seems impossible, or to have disassembled it, brought the parts in, and reassembled it on the spot. I don’t recall if anyone tried to start it or not….

    1. The second part of the plan is to encourage more to TP, causing a shortage.  Then many Americans will be very uncomfortable, it’ll be our ultimate undoing.  Really brilliant in its simplicity.

  6. Doesn’t the State Patrol provide security for the mansion? If so, perhaps a couple of troopers with a keen sense of humor and perhaps former TP’ers themselves, let it happen.

    Second, did the TP’ers manage the ultimate finishing touch to the job: a bow on the front door?

    1. The article even features a picture of one security camera, but no mention of what, if anything, was captured.

      I can’t imagine pressing charges for this kind of thing, so my care-o-meter is at about zero.  But I am a little curious.

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