{"id":4827,"date":"2009-05-04T08:09:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4827"},"modified":"2009-05-04T08:09:12","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T13:09:12","slug":"film_tax_credits_nearly_turn_deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/film_tax_credits_nearly_turn_deadly.html","title":{"rendered":"Film Tax Credits Nearly Turn Deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And in a time when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/the_unintended_consequences_of_film_industry_tax_credits.html\">there is much confusion about what&#8217;s real and what&#8217;s not<\/a> you can&#8217;t be too sure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05042009\/news\/regionalnews\/film_a_bway_smash_167542.htm\">what you&#8217;re seeing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A movie chase scene got too realistic early today when a car jumped a curb during a film shoot and smashed into the entrance of a Times Square restaurant, injuring two people, police and witnesses said. <\/p>\n<p>The action scene gone awry unfolded at the Sbarro at 47th Street and Seventh Avenue shortly before 1 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>Street closing notices posted by the police indicated the shoot was for the Nicholas Cage film, &#8220;The Sorcerer&#8217;s Apprentice.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Mark Watkins, a tourist from Birmingham, England, watched the live action chase from the top of the new TKTS booth. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A black Ferrari and a silver Mercedes were chasing each other,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ferrari took a route down the center of the road, swerving between cars. The Mercedes took the outside lanes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ferrari took a sharp right to the left and lost it, swerving across the lanes, taking out a lamppost and a news stand. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One lady was knocked to the ground and a lamppost landed directly on top of a chap.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Horrifying video at link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And in a time when there is much confusion about what&#8217;s real and what&#8217;s not you can&#8217;t be too sure what you&#8217;re seeing: A movie chase scene got too realistic early today when a car jumped a curb during a film shoot and smashed into the entrance of a Times Square restaurant, injuring two people, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,53,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i_dont_care_if_youre_filming_youre_in_my_goddamn_way","category-jerk_move","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827","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=4827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4828,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4827\/revisions\/4828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}