{"id":2166,"date":"2007-03-02T09:55:32","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T17:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/03\/we_dont_need_no_stinking_badges-2.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T13:48:06","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T18:48:06","slug":"we_dont_need_no_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/we_dont_need_no_2.html","title":{"rendered":"We Don&#8217;t Need No Stinking Badges . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . but super-tough nickel-alloy ones, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/03022007\/news\/regionalnews\/lifesaving_shield_regionalnews_erin_calabrese_and_perry_chiaramonte.htm\">on the other hand<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A rookie cop was &#8220;shielded&#8221; from death in Queens yesterday when his badge stopped a drunken maniac from plunging a knife into the officer&#8217;s heart, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The kitchen knife broke into five pieces as it hit the shield.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Stuart Ingram, who joined the force just three months ago, suffered only cuts to his hand in the dramatic clash with crazed Joseph Leonardi, 50.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it happened, I was in shock,&#8221; Ingram said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the force of the knife, there were no scratches on Ingram&#8217;s NYPD shield. The nickel-alloy badges have been known to deflect a bullet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thanks [to the badge manufacturer] for making it stronger than the knife,&#8221; Ingram said.<\/p>\n<p>Leonardi had earlier tried to run over a Catholic nun, cops said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . but super-tough nickel-alloy ones, on the other hand: A rookie cop was &#8220;shielded&#8221; from death in Queens yesterday when his badge stopped a drunken maniac from plunging a knife into the officer&#8217;s heart, authorities said. The kitchen knife broke into five pieces as it hit the shield. Officer Stuart Ingram, who joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dude_thats_so_weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","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=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}