{"id":1382,"date":"2006-08-07T10:13:44","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T18:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/what_did_we_just_say_about_that_smarmy_americas_dumbest_criminals_series.html"},"modified":"2006-08-07T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T18:13:44","slug":"what_did_we_jus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/what_did_we_jus.html","title":{"rendered":"What Did We Just Say About That Smarmy &#8220;America&#8217;s Dumbest Criminals&#8221; Series?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re going to rob people, for heaven&#8217;s sake, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/parks_mans_bling_bust_regionalnews_tatiana_deligiannakis.htm\">don&#8217;t do it while you&#8217;re on the clock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Parks Department employee working in Queens was busted early yesterday after he snatched two chains and a watch from a motorist sitting in a parked car, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Wiley, 50, drove up in his green Parks van to the 49-year-old victim, whose identity was not released, sitting in his Toyota SUV by Forest Park near Woodhaven Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Wiley allegedly reached his hand through the passenger-side window, pulled the victim&#8217;s chains and a Tag Heuer wristwatch at 4:15 a.m., police sources said, then drove off into the park.<\/p>\n<p>Cops found him in an office, where they were able to retrieve the watch. The chains were dropped in the victim&#8217;s car during the struggle.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/all_youve_done.html\">All You&#8217;ve Done Is Give Fox A Reason To Restart That Smarmy &#8220;America&#8217;s Dumbest Criminals&#8221; Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re going to rob people, for heaven&#8217;s sake, don&#8217;t do it while you&#8217;re on the clock: A Parks Department employee working in Queens was busted early yesterday after he snatched two chains and a watch from a motorist sitting in a parked car, authorities said. Lewis Wiley, 50, drove up in his green Parks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}