We were going to skip this KKTV Denver story about an apparent road rage incident that randomly happened in front of the Colorado Supreme Court building in Denver at approximately 1:15 AM MST Tuesday morning – which then led to an asshole with a gun shooting out a window to enter the building, taking an unarmed overnight security guard hostage, firing some more shots, and then surrendering himself to the cops without further incident – but we kind of have to address it.

The source article’s headline “Man holds security guard at gunpoint in Denver at Colorado Supreme Court offices” is indeed technically accurate. It’s also a gross lie by omission that other aggregators who want you to think it was a MAGA terrorist attack would happily twist to get you to click on.

KKTV pulls from a Colorado State Patrol press statement to write that “the situation started with a two-vehicle crash at about 1:15 in the morning at 13th Street and Lincoln. One person reportedly pointed a handgun at the other before shooting out a window at the Ralph L Carr Colorado Judicial Center,” emphasis added to emphasize that it’s not only the Colorado Supreme Court’s home but also of the “the Colorado Court of Appeals and a number of other judicial and legal agencies,” per the state Judicial Learning Center’s website. So they could’ve just said “Carr Center” but didn’t.

Then down at the bottom of KTTV’s article is where they buried the part that says “The CSP and [Denver Police] are treating this incident seriously, but at this time, it is believed that this is not associated with previous threats to the Colorado Supreme Court Justices,” emphasis ours again.

We would like to take this moment to reaffirm National Zero’s pledge to printing clickbait for trolling purposes only. We will NEVER post misleading headlines to sucker readers to help increase advertising revenue. Our obnoxious clickbait is exclusively for our personal amusement.

UPDATE 1/2/2024 11:41 AM EDT: And oh, would you look at that. The Hill beat us to this story, headlined it “Man forces way into Colorado Supreme Court days after Trump ballot decision,” and didn’t quote the state police’s statement saying it appeared unrelated until the sixth paragraph.