{"id":1224,"date":"2004-08-05T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2018-08-13T07:11:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T12:11:54","slug":"1224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/05\/1224\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay, Hijinks Now A Felony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two lawyers play around in their office building by shooting BBs at each other, someone in another office sees and calls the cops from beneath her desk, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/News\/St.+Louis+City+\/+County\/D5345C6F4F34FACC86256EE5001A1673?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Workers+scurry+for+cover+in+BB+battle&#038;tetl=1\" target=\"_new\">they&#8217;re going to get it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police said they discovered that two lawyers who work in the building apparently had engaged in a BB gun fight with each other. Police arrested one of them, Gary K. Burger, 37, and booked him on suspicion of <b>flourishing a dangerous and deadly weapon<\/b>, a felony. Police have not yet sought formal charges from the prosecutor&#8217;s office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would take a greater legal scholar than I to sort through the byzantine implications of this law, such as whether brandishing a dangerous and deadly weapon is a worse crime, or whether this law covers holding ceremonial muskets or sabres over one&#8217;s head when presented with it, although one suspects it could at NRA rallies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two lawyers play around in their office building by shooting BBs at each other, someone in another office sees and calls the cops from beneath her desk, and now they&#8217;re going to get it: Police said they discovered that two lawyers who work in the building apparently had engaged in a BB gun fight with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22990,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/22990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}