In a law that sounds like it predates the state itself, it’s illegal in Colorado to call someone a whore or a slut.

Under Colorado law, if someone taunts, challenges or uses “coarse language” against someone, it’s a crime.

Beth Chapman, wife of Dwayne “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman (imagine that guy’s place-setting at a wedding…) found this out the hard way when a warrant was put out for her arrest after the following series of very redneck events:

Beth and hubby Dog the Bounty Hunter were fishing at a lake earlier this month when a car roared by … which didn’t sit well with the famous couple and their kids. Beth allegedly began berating the teenage passenger, whom she called a tramp, a whore and a slut, among other choice words.

The situation escalated … and Beth called 911, claiming one of the people in the party she confronted was ominously carrying a gun with his hand on the grip.

Is there a way to carry a gun non-ominously? Like, just casually wave a pistol about?

Anyway, there’s obvious irony that someone who hauls in criminals for a living is now being pursued by the cops.

But I’m almost 100% positive that if she wasn’t someone well-known—the “whore” who pressed charges never would have.