{"id":9096,"date":"2011-03-11T07:02:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T13:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9096"},"modified":"2011-03-11T07:02:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T13:02:59","slug":"an-obvious-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/11\/an-obvious-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"An Obvious Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To recap: A young drifter goes into a Starbucks and grabs the tip jar off the counter.  A customer follows him to his car, altercates a bit, and gets hit by the car as the young drifter and his Bonnie lass leave.  The customer dies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/article_a87fee2a-c739-5914-96d0-30e1deeaa6b9.html\" target=\"_blank\">The customer&#8217;s family sues<\/a> because tip jars are an obvious target for deadly larceny.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt alleges that Starbucks &#8220;did not employ security to prevent the perpetration of such crimes&#8221; and that it &#8220;invited the act of perpetration of said crime&#8221; by having a tip jar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, why not?  If Congress can mandate any decision, why cannot the courts determine that anything that can be stolen must be defended by armed security under the penalty of litigation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To recap: A young drifter goes into a Starbucks and grabs the tip jar off the counter. A customer follows him to his car, altercates a bit, and gets hit by the car as the young drifter and his Bonnie lass leave. The customer dies. The customer&#8217;s family sues because tip jars are an obvious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096","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=9096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9098,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9096\/revisions\/9098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}