{"id":4176,"date":"2008-01-03T03:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4176"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T19:10:38","slug":"when-darwin-awards-and-department-of-righteous-shootings-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/when-darwin-awards-and-department-of-righteous-shootings-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"When Darwin Awards and Department of Righteous Shootings Collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/laworder\/story\/A2CF02ADFEB8ED6B862573C4006B20E8?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">Practical joke leads to cop&#8217;s shooting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police believe a practical joke led to the shooting Tuesday  of a 23-year-old Ste. Genevieve police officer.<\/p>\n<p>The rookie deputy allegedly faked a break-in around 9:45 p.m. at his brother-in-law\u2019s home in Festus, said Festus Police Chief Tim Lewis. The brother-in-law thought an intruder was about to enter his house and reacted by shooting him.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, Festus police noticed a car speeding along Veterans Boulevard and realized the vehicle was racing to Jefferson Memorial Hospital. Once there, they recognized the shooter as an on-call minister for the police department. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practical joke leads to cop&#8217;s shooting: Police believe a practical joke led to the shooting Tuesday of a 23-year-old Ste. Genevieve police officer. The rookie deputy allegedly faked a break-in around 9:45 p.m. at his brother-in-law\u2019s home in Festus, said Festus Police Chief Tim Lewis. The brother-in-law thought an intruder was about to enter his [&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-4176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176","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=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17208,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions\/17208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}