{"id":2455990,"date":"2020-03-18T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/pitkin-county-commissioner-calls-cops-on-large-gathering-of-celebrants-not-practicing-social-distancing\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T05:12:00","slug":"pitkin-county-commissioner-calls-cops-on-large-gathering-of-celebrants-not-practicing-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/pitkin-county-commissioner-calls-cops-on-large-gathering-of-celebrants-not-practicing-social-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitkin County commissioner calls cops on large gathering of celebrants not practicing social distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nobody better mess with Pitkin County Commissioner Patti Clapper.<\/p>\n

A group of young people drinking beer \u201cshoulder to shoulder\u201d in Rio Grande Park and not practicing appropriate social distancing learned that lesson Tuesday, when the five-term county board member and former nurse called Aspen police on them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf (one sharp-tongued young man) hadn\u2019t have been so nasty to me, I probably would have walked away,\u201d Clapper said Wednesday. \u201cBut he told me to call the cops, so I did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clapper said she was walking past the park Tuesday evening when she saw a group of about 20 young people drinking beers together.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were standing shoulder to shoulder around a picnic table,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

So Clapper said she went over, reminded those gathered that they were in the middle of a pandemic and suggested they spread out a bit and perhaps better observe Centers for Disease Control recommendations limiting groups to less than 10 people.<\/p>\n

Some in the group explained that they\u2019d just finished their last shift together at a local hotel and were celebrating, Clapper said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen one young man got really nasty with me,\u201d she said. \u201cHe told me to move along.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clapper said she told the young man \u201cwe were all in this together\u201d and that she \u201cdidn\u2019t want to have to call anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018Go ahead and call the cops,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI said, \u2018OK.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Aspen police received Clapper\u2019s call about the matter about 6:15 p.m., though by the time an officer responded he found the party was \u201cfizzling out,\u201d according to a police report. The officer took no action.<\/p>\n

Clapper said she later regretted her phone call to police, though not because she interrupted the celebration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt bad,\u201d she said. \u201cThe police have better things to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

jauslander@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nobody better mess with Pitkin County Commissioner Patti Clapper. A group of young people drinking beer \u201cshoulder to shoulder\u201d in Rio Grande Park and not practicing appropriate social distancing learned that lesson Tuesday, when the five-term county board member and former nurse called Aspen police on them. \u201cIf (one sharp-tongued young man) hadn\u2019t have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 09:25:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}