Controversy involving the Indian Hills Community Sign

It all started so innocently, with Vince's usual humor putting up a message that said "Turning vegan would be a big missed steak."

Photo by Vince Rozmiarek

Two girls from the city were traveling through, one of whom owned a vegan restaurant on Colfax, and they decided to have some fun with the sign. They rearranged the letters to say "Turning vegan is awesome", which was funny except that they took the extra letters with them and then bragged about it on their Facebook pages.

Photo by Vince Rozmiarek

They also posted pictures of them hopping a rancher's fence and petting cows - a location which was quickly identified as being located at Dinosaur Ridge on C470, and whom someone in Indian Hills knew. The property owner was contacted, Jeffco Sheriff was called to report the theft and the trespassing, and the Denver news stations were contacted.

My friend Micahlynn called them out on what they did with this post on the Indian Hills Community Sign page and all hell broke loose after that. Many community members not only took the one girl to task on that post, as she continued to reply to comments showing absolutely no remorse and remarkably inept trolling skills, but they also went to her friend's business page and started commenting and writing bad reviews. Within 3 hours their 5 star rating dropped to 3 stars.

The business owner was contacted and agreed to bring the letters back to the community center, which she did along with a box of donuts and a half-assed apology (she wasn't sorry she did it, but was sorry it got taken too far").

9News and the Denver Post interviewed Micahlynn and Vince today, here's the first story. The Indian Hills Community Sign Facebook page gained 500 Likes in the past 2 days, bounding to over 4,100 Likes.

All in a day of life on the mountain.

Vegan debate fires up discussion on community sign
Kerry Leary, KUSA
6:13 PM. MDT April 15, 2016

INDIAN HILLS - Actions that were meant to be all in good fun in Indian Hills turned into quite a controversy Wednesday.

The Indian Hills Community Center has a sign that's updated every few days with new funny, pun-filled one-liners and jokes. The sign has a big following, it has more than 4,000 people following its updates on its Facebook page. It all started four years ago with an April Fool's joke.

"There are people from about 40 countries that follow our updates," MicahLynn Kaza, who runs the Facebook page, said. "Some of our posts have reached over three million people."

The community center, which has the sign on its property, is a non-profit that can be used by those who live in the area. It's in a historic building and it's run by a board of volunteers, with the help of fundraising events throughout the year.

Wednesday there was some controversy over the community center's sign, after a certain message was posted.

"We posted a message that said, 'turning vegan would be a big missed steak,' Vince has a wicked sense of humor," Kaza said. "That was the sign that started it, and then these women were driving through town and stopped and changed the letters, which we thought was hilarious. If they had only left the letters, it would have been awesome."