SYSTEM CRASH SNARLS POT DISPENSARY SALES ON 4/20
A point-of-sale system powering Colorado dispensaries went down Tuesday on the biggest marijuana holiday of the year.
Denver-based FlowHub said an outage caused by a third-party authentication service caused the service to crash on April 20, colloquially known as 4/20.
It’s unclear how many dispensaries in the state were affected and a company representative was not immediately available for comment.
The stoner holiday is the highest-selling day for marijuana at The Chronic Factory, a medical-only shop in Denver. General manager Lisa DeGroat said her system crashed about 10 a.m. and the business fired up an older version of the system to process sales. Transactions typically take about 15 minutes, DeGroat said, but the system was running so slowly that waits were up to about an hour.
It’s been a “hectic, world-ending, planes crashing” kind of day, she said.
FlowHub processes more than $3 billion in sales annually for more than 1,000 dispensaries in Colorado and 13 other states, according to its website.
Dog thrown from moving vehicle is critically injured.
A dog was critically injured Tuesday afternoon when it was thrown from a moving vehicle, investigators said.
The incident happened at about 1:45 p.m. in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 76 just before Sheridan Boulevard, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
“According to witnesses, the car was a black Lexus sedan and the dog appeared to be deliberately thrown from the moving vehicle,” a news release said.
The dog, a cream-colored miniature poodle, was in critical condition at the Foothills Animal Shelter.
Anyone with information on the incident, or on a possible suspect, is asked to call 303-271-5070.
Overnight road closures on Sixth Avenue set.
The city of Denver has requested two closures of West Sixth Avenue between Federal and Sheridan Boulevards next week for pedestrian bridge construction. These closures are scheduled to be overnight.
The work seeks to improve the bearing system and prolong the life of the bridge, according to a news release.
Here’s a list of closures: Monday: Eastbound closure: Lanes going eastbound on U.S. 6 near Sheridan will be closed at 8 p.m. and will be fully closed by 10 p.m. These lanes will be reopened by 5 a.m. Motorists traveling eastbound will exit U.S. 6 at Sheridan using Colfax or Alameda avenues to get to Federal. Westbound lanes will not be impacted.
Tuesday: Westbound closure: Lanes going Westbound on U.S. 6 near Federal will close at 8 p.m. and will be fully closed by 10 p.m. These lanes will be open by 5 a.m. the following day. Drivers traveling west will exit U.S. 6 at Federal using Colfax or Alameda to go west to Sheridan. Eastbound lanes will not be impacted.