{"id":5997,"date":"2010-05-06T06:50:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T11:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5997"},"modified":"2010-05-06T06:50:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T11:50:16","slug":"and_you_thought_the_coen_brothers_quirky_take_on_life_was_out_of_touch_with_reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/and_you_thought_the_coen_brothers_quirky_take_on_life_was_out_of_touch_with_reality.html","title":{"rendered":"And You Thought The Coen Brothers&#8217; Quirky Take On Life Was Out Of Touch With Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There should be a special charge added to offenses perpetrated by criminals who prey on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/05\/homeless_man_accused_of_tying.html\">people without legs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A homeless man is accused of tying his legless friend to the bed in a Grasmere motel, hiding his prosthetic legs so he couldn&#8217;t get up, and stealing his property as he lay bound.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Hughes, 33, committed the bizarre theft in the early morning hours on April 19 in the Cosmopolitan Motel at 1274 Hylan Blvd., police allege.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes&#8217; friend, 43-year-old Joseph Valente, was letting him stay in his room in the motel, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>At about 2:10 a.m., Valente awoke to find himself tied at the chest with an electrical cord, police allege.<\/p>\n<p>His prosthetic legs and his wheelchair had been moved away from the bed, a law enforcement source said.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was walking out of his room with a laptop, a debit card, a cell phone and unspecified medication, court papers allege.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, Valente managed to get free and contact authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Police tracked Hughes to a park bench in Manhattan on Tuesday, and arrested him in connection with the crime, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>When an officer told him he was being taken to Staten Island to answer for a robbery, Hughes blurted out, &#8220;Oh, the guy with no legs!&#8221; the law enforcement source recounted.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There should be a special charge added to offenses perpetrated by criminals who prey on people without legs: A homeless man is accused of tying his legless friend to the bed in a Grasmere motel, hiding his prosthetic legs so he couldn&#8217;t get up, and stealing his property as he lay bound. Carl Hughes, 33, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move","category-law_order","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997","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=5997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5998,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions\/5998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}