{"id":4363,"date":"2008-04-09T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4363"},"modified":"2017-11-11T17:38:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T23:38:01","slug":"it-could-have-happened-to-any-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/it-could-have-happened-to-any-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"It Could Have Happened To Any Of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors recognize that any of us who experience frustration with home improvement project are only a couple steps and some intelligence away from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/missouristatenews\/story\/9A89796AB2D16A9C86257426004E47CD?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prosecutors are not expected to file charges against a Missouri man who fatally shot his wife while he was trying to install a satellite TV system in their home.<\/p>\n<p>Henry County investigators ruled that Patsy Long&#8217;s March 22 death was accidental. Her husband, Ronald Long, fired his .22 caliber pistol from inside their Deepwater home after he couldn&#8217;t punch a hole through the exterior wall using other means.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On one hand, I am being a little snarky because this seems so foolish as to be negligent, but on the other, I am happy to see prosecutors who can see an accident that doesn&#8217;t want responsibility and a couple percentage points on their conviction rate.<\/p>\n<p>I do think a gun safety course might be in order, though, ainna?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors recognize that any of us who experience frustration with home improvement project are only a couple steps and some intelligence away from this: Prosecutors are not expected to file charges against a Missouri man who fatally shot his wife while he was trying to install a satellite TV system in their home. Henry County [&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-4363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363","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=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17525,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions\/17525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}