{"id":1613,"date":"2006-09-27T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T18:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/what_allen_funt_hath_wrought.html"},"modified":"2006-09-27T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T18:22:30","slug":"what_allen_funt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/what_allen_funt.html","title":{"rendered":"What Allen Funt Hath Wrought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over 50 years since Candid Camera first aired and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/you_tube_boob_regionalnews_ikimulisa_livingston_and_todd_venezia.htm\">we&#8217;re still dealing with the ramifications<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Queens man who apparently wanted to become the next &#8220;Jackass&#8221; is now facing up a year in jail after posting a video on YouTube showing him and some pals posing as cops and randomly searching people on the street.<\/p>\n<p>Gazi Abura, 21, of Astoria, and two other camera-toting pranksters allegedly accosted a 31-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy in July 2005 by donning fake badges and pulling phony &#8220;stop-and-frisk&#8221;-style police searches. They recorded the encounters and then put the video on the popular YouTube site under the name &#8220;Crack DVD . . . The Re-Up\/\/Crack Cops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amigo, you&#8217;re getting thugged right now,&#8221; one of the video police fakers told their first victim, Alexis Montoya, 31, of Elmhurst, after stopping him on a sidewalk and &#8220;scanning&#8221; his driver&#8217;s license by putting it into to their car&#8217;s CD player.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The prank video went up on the Web site in mid-August. One of Trivino&#8217;s classmates saw it and told him. The teen went to authorities, who later charged Abura with second-degree criminal impersonation, second-degree coercion and second-degree unlawful imprisonment. The charges could get Abura up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>He was ordered held on $3,500 bail at his arraignment last night.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over 50 years since Candid Camera first aired and we&#8217;re still dealing with the ramifications: A Queens man who apparently wanted to become the next &#8220;Jackass&#8221; is now facing up a year in jail after posting a video on YouTube showing him and some pals posing as cops and randomly searching people on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","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=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}