Police Look For Gopher Groper Sexual Predator

(above) Police sketch of assailant
by Kristen Leigh Painter

Denver police and campus security are working to try to nab a mascot thought to be responsible for a string of sexual assaults near the University of Denver this academic year.

There have been at least four assaults in which a mascot has tried to fondle women who were either walking or jogging alone on South High Street.

Police released a composite sketch of the mascot [above] who groped a woman at about 9:15 p.m. Thursday.

The victim reported she was walking south in the 2000 block of South High Street when she passed a mascot who was heading north.

The woman heard the pitter-patter of paws running behind her. She turned around to see the mascot she had just passed grabbing her buttocks.

She yelled at the mascot, and he ran toward the intersection of East Asbury Avenue and South High Street.

The frequency of the attacks is causing unease for DU students — particularly women. It is believed that a string of recent football loses at the University of Minnesota is causing the abnormal behavior.

Police said the victim described the suspect as being a gopher approximately 19 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches tall, with a thin build, wearing a charcoal-gray hooded sweatshirt with black stripes down the arms

13 comments:

dggoddard said...

Turns out the article is about a "groper" not a gopher. If you see the pervert, turn him in.

Anonymous said...

He is related somewhere in the family tree to a Woolie.

Anonymous said...

U of Minnesota has a football team?? Those guys couldn't beat my nephew's team of 12 year olds.

CIS said...

Really DG? DU has the same issue right now! Glass houses bud...

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19380920

Anonymous said...

making fun of assaults on DU students, you're a f-ing idiot DG,

Anonymous said...

CIS:

What do did you think DG is making fun of here? Of course he knows about the "groper" near DU...

And secondly - calling buttocks grabbing/fondling/groping sexual assault is an insult to those women who have suffered and been violated by serious sexual assaults, such as rape.

This groper dude is clearly annoying and creepy as hell, but this stuff doesn't deserve the media coverage or generating extra 'fear' on the part of female DU students.

old pio said...

I'd recommend you take your sniveling PC complaints to Dianne Murphy, she's the goddess. After all, she took offense at the use of the word "pussy" by the hockey club. The application of that word here seems more than appropriate.

Anonymous said...

Your credibility is gone after your defense of the pedophile cover-up at Penn State.

CIS said...

Well, obviously I should have read the article....

old pio said...

How much credibility does a lying sack of shit have?

Anonymous said...

After 60 years of mostly good things delivered to Penn State and college sports by Paterno, all Old Pio was doing was questioning the speed of the lynch mob based on incomplete examination of the facts. He was not questioning the vailidity of the allegations and the cover up. Despite our quick conviction Paterno (et al) in the court of public opinion, we should all still believe the due process of our court system and the presumption of iinocence until proven guilty.

Paterno is out now, the victim of his old age and his outdated attitudes and flawed priorities.

But in the passage of time, we'll someday see Paterno in the fullness of his contibutions as well as the horrible way his career ended.

Like Richard Nixon, Paterno made a career ending misktake - the cover up is worse than the crime.

Anonymous said...

This dude has taken the good 'ol game of grab-ass to a pretty weird level.

Anonymous said...

4:17, I'm thinking all the kids that were molested after Joepa turned a blind eye would disagree with you.