{"id":2917,"date":"2006-01-25T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2017-12-22T06:51:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T12:51:38","slug":"one-good-discharge-leads-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/25\/one-good-discharge-leads-to-another\/","title":{"rendered":"One Good Discharge Leads to Another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people were just born to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/3D6C1BF7256D20148625710000237F40?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">work in fast food<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then everyone&#8217;s attention turned to a woman in line &#8211; the one with a shredded sequined purse on the tile floor near her feet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She picked up her purse like it was some kind of disease,&#8221; explained Shelley White, the store manager on duty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ain&#8217;t got no gun,&#8221; was the only thing the stranger told the crowd in the restaurant before gathering her purse and teenage daughter from a nearby booth and running out of the place about 1 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>But she did have a gun, investigators said, apparently a low-quality one that discharged by accident when she dropped her purse.<\/p>\n<p>She had a secret too, one that she might have kept had White not rushed to the window and called out the license number for a customer to jot down. <b>The fleeing woman was an off-duty St. Louis police officer.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the woman inadvertantly discharged a firearm, fled the scene, and <b><i>threw the firearm out of her window on the interstate<\/i><\/b> before she was caught, she resigned when the internal affairs department of her police department opened an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who travels into the city almost daily, I would hope the city of St. Louis would weed these people out before they&#8217;re actually, you know, <i>cops<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people were just born to work in fast food: Then everyone&#8217;s attention turned to a woman in line &#8211; the one with a shredded sequined purse on the tile floor near her feet. &#8220;She picked up her purse like it was some kind of disease,&#8221; explained Shelley White, the store manager on duty. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","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=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18948,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/18948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}