{"id":199229,"date":"2007-08-23T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/23\/the-judge-gave-you-500-quid-for-what\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T05:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T10:08:00","slug":"the-judge-gave-you-500-quid-for-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/23\/the-judge-gave-you-500-quid-for-what\/","title":{"rendered":"The Judge Gave You 500 Quid for What???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/08\/21\/bookmaker_blag\/\">a man  held up a bookie with pretending that a &#8220;rabbit&#8221; vibrator was a handgun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the bookie&#8217;s customers (they are legal in the UK), Wayne Vakani, followed the man out, and managed to secure enough information, a hat from which the police drew DNA evidence, that the police were able to nab the perp.<\/p>\n<p>The judge awarded Mr. Vakani &pound;500 for his bravery.<\/p>\n<p>I do understand that his actions were actually brave, he didn&#8217;t know it was not a gun, but I can imagine the ribbing that he is going to get from his buddies, something like, &#8220;Drinks on you mate, you&#8217;ve got the cash after standing up to a phony pickle wielding maniac.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll never hear the end of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that a man held up a bookie with pretending that a &#8220;rabbit&#8221; vibrator was a handgun. One of the bookie&#8217;s customers (they are legal in the UK), Wayne Vakani, followed the man out, and managed to secure enough information, a hat from which the police drew DNA evidence, that the police were able &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199229"}],"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=199229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}