{"id":198984,"date":"2007-09-20T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/20\/new-haven-acknowledges-that-they-were-morons-sort-of\/"},"modified":"2007-09-20T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T04:04:00","slug":"new-haven-acknowledges-that-they-were-morons-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/20\/new-haven-acknowledges-that-they-were-morons-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"New Haven Acknowledges That They Were Morons (Sort Of)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/osama-has-already-defeated-us.html\">members of a 60+ year old running group being prosecuted under terrorism statutes for marking a trail<\/a>?  The local constabulary were talking about pressing charges for the &#8220;Hash House Runners&#8221;, a &#8220;Drinking group with a running problem&#8221;. For marking a running path with flour.<\/p>\n<p>When the doctor who marked the path saw the commotion, he explained what it was, and <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">offered to eat some of the flour<\/span>, but these folks still kept freaking out, despite the fact that the FBI had sent out a notice about the &#8220;Hash House Runners&#8221; saying that they were not a problem some tome previous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhavenindependent.org\/archives\/2007\/09\/city_wont_make.php\">There has been a settlement<\/a>, with the doctor and his sister doing some community service.<\/p>\n<p>If I were them, I&#8217;d tell them to pound sand, and file suit against the city for malicious prosecution.  They&#8217;ve run these races in Washington, DC without incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I wrote about members of a 60+ year old running group being prosecuted under terrorism statutes for marking a trail? The local constabulary were talking about pressing charges for the &#8220;Hash House Runners&#8221;, a &#8220;Drinking group with a running problem&#8221;. For marking a running path with flour. When the doctor who marked the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,982,1076,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-stupid","category-terrorism","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}