{"id":419,"date":"2005-10-05T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/verbal_judo_could_help.html"},"modified":"2005-10-05T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T18:00:06","slug":"verbal_judo_cou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/verbal_judo_cou.html","title":{"rendered":"Verbal Judo Could Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a friendly reminder, if someone holds a gun to your head and says &#8220;I&#8217;m going to fucking kill you,&#8221; it&#8217;s probably not a good idea to grab the gun out of his hand and chase after him. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/54796.htm\">Even if this method works<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A young man assisted police in capturing a teenage thug after the man and his female companion were beaten and robbed at gunpoint in Brooklyn, authorities said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble began about 9 p.m. Sunday, when Justin Snider, 22, and Zsizsi Verushka, 20, were approached by Keith Dunn and two accomplices at St. James Place near Gates Avenue in Fort Greene, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn, 17, allegedly pointed a gun at Snider&#8217;s head and said, &#8220;We are going to f- &#8211; -ing kill you . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Snider then reached out and snatched the weapon from Dunn&#8217;s hand, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>That triggered an assault in which Dunn and his accomplices pummeled Snider, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The thugs then pushed Verushka to the ground, snatched $20 from her purse and fled, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>As Snider gave chase, Dunn allegedly picked up a rock and hurled it at him, but missed.<\/p>\n<p>Snider was able to catch Dunn and hold him until police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn was charged with assault and robbery.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, just to be clear, while it may have worked this time, doing so is not &#8220;assisting&#8221; the police. Instead, it is rather stupid &#8212; no matter what the Post tells you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a friendly reminder, if someone holds a gun to your head and says &#8220;I&#8217;m going to fucking kill you,&#8221; it&#8217;s probably not a good idea to grab the gun out of his hand and chase after him. Even if this method works: A young man assisted police in capturing a teenage thug after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public_service_announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","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=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}