{"id":3498,"date":"2008-06-07T07:06:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T12:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2008-06-07T07:06:56","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T12:06:56","slug":"mr_met_has_a_posse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/mr_met_has_a_posse.html","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Met Has A Posse . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . to ward off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06072008\/news\/regionalnews\/fan_meathead__vs__met_head_114388.htm\">amazingly idiotic patrons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Cops called out a rowdy baseball buff who tried to take on Mr. Met.<\/p>\n<p>At a recent game, the drunken fan manhandled the Amazin&#8217;s smiling, giant-baseball-headed mascot, police said. He also allegedly knocked down kids and took a swing at a security guard.<\/p>\n<p>The action happened at last Saturday&#8217;s thriller, which ended with a 3-2 Met come-from-behind win against the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Hansen of Gowanus, Brooklyn, was seen &#8220;harassing Mr. Met and pushing little children out of the way&#8221; at Shea Stadium, a law-enforcement source said.<\/p>\n<p>When security officials told the soused sports nut to leave, he refused.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/queens\/fmcp\/shea\/mrmet\/index.htm\">Mr. Met<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . to ward off amazingly idiotic patrons: Cops called out a rowdy baseball buff who tried to take on Mr. Met. At a recent game, the drunken fan manhandled the Amazin&#8217;s smiling, giant-baseball-headed mascot, police said. He also allegedly knocked down kids and took a swing at a security guard. The action happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order","category-sports","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","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=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}