{"id":484,"date":"2007-05-17T12:44:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T17:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/05\/17\/1179423880109.html"},"modified":"2007-05-17T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T17:44:40","slug":"blogentry-cops-arrest-lifesize-lara-croft-cutout-and-then-keep-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] Cops Arrest Lifesize Lara Croft Cutout (and then keep her??)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too good to pass up is this story about <a href=&#034;http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/register\/20070517\/ttc-armed-cops-in-lara-croft-bust-action-d1d76f9.html&#034;>the police breaking into someone&#039;s house<\/a> because they saw the silhouette of an armed figure in the window. The problem was that the silhouette was a lifesized cutout of videogame heroine Lara Croft that the homeowner, a videogame store employee, had taken home to sell on ebay.<\/p>\n<p\/>The figure remains &#034;impounded as evidence&#034;.  The homeowner , who is apparently waiting to find out if he&#039;ll be charged with anything (ummm&#8230;like what?) is trying to decide whether to sue for wrongful arrest.  Personally I think it&#039;s silly but I&#039;m not really sure that he has to go running for the lawyers.  The story does NOT take place in the United States, so he may not overreact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too good to pass up is this story about the police breaking into someone&#039;s house because they saw the silhouette of an armed figure in the window. The problem was that the silhouette was a lifesized cutout of videogame heroine Lara Croft that the homeowner, a videogame store employee, had taken home to sell on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}