{"id":3579,"date":"2008-06-25T08:02:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T13:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2008-06-25T08:02:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T13:02:28","slug":"i_dont_think_that_worked_in_the_movies_either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/i_dont_think_that_worked_in_the_movies_either.html","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Think That Worked In The Movies, Either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you&#8217;re escaping the police and some buttinsky, keep in mind that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06252008\/news\/regionalnews\/cops_mistake_super_hero_in_pjs_for_crook_117026.htm\">this ploy does not seem to work<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The pajama-clad super of a ritzy lower Manhattan high-rise chased a burglar but was mistakenly grabbed by security guards when the wily thief screamed for help, police sources said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The guy was yelling at no one in particular, &#8216;Stop this crazy guy. He&#8217;s trying to kill me!'&#8221; said super Bobby Gardocki, who admitted he looked somewhat bizarre running barefoot in his jammies after the burglar Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p>Gardocki was grabbed by Manhattan Community College police, who thought he was the culprit. <\/p>\n<p>A building tenant convinced the guards they had the wrong guy and cops arrested the suspect, Michael Estrada, 38, of Queens, nearby. <\/p>\n<p>He allegedly looted a woman&#8217;s apartment of more than $3,000 in jewelry before trying to get into the super&#8217;s flat.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you&#8217;re escaping the police and some buttinsky, keep in mind that this ploy does not seem to work: The pajama-clad super of a ritzy lower Manhattan high-rise chased a burglar but was mistakenly grabbed by security guards when the wily thief screamed for help, police sources said. &#8220;The guy was yelling at no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order","category-manhattan","category-need_to_know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","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=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}