{"id":723,"date":"2006-02-21T09:35:14","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T17:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/he_kicked_them_in_the_pickles_--_get_it_pickles.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:22:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:22:51","slug":"he_kicked_them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/he_kicked_them.html","title":{"rendered":"He Kicked Them In The Pickles &#8212; Get It? &#8220;Pickles&#8221; . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of idiot tries to rob a pickle store? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/60200.htm\">The Post piles on<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A pair of ski-masked Peter Pipers picked on the wrong Lower East Side pickler yesterday, landing one of them a whole peck of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>The bumbling thugs entered The Pickle Guys shop on Essex Street at around 8:30 a.m. as owner Alan Kaufman was preparing to open for business. One pointed a gun at the veteran cucumber curer, but the less-than-dynamic duo got more than they bargained for when he fought back &#8212; kicking the gunman right in the &#8220;pickles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Kaufman said he was sweeping the floor when the two men, wearing ski masks and latex gloves, lifted the metal grate and walked in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are you doin&#8217;?&#8221; Kaufman asked &#8212; but the crooks shut him up with an angry &#8220;never mind!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hip to the fact he was about to be robbed, the Pickle Guy started jabbing at the would-be bandits with his broom.<\/p>\n<p>One of the robbers pulled a gun &#8212; but rather than recoil, the brave Pickle Guy dove at him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I grabbed his hand, trying to get [the gun] away from him,&#8221; Kaufman said, adding that the scuffle caused the two attackers to fall.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when, Kaufman said, he executed his prized move &#8212; &#8220;I kicked him in the pickles,&#8221; he said, referring to the gunman&#8217;s testicles.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of idiot tries to rob a pickle store? The Post piles on: A pair of ski-masked Peter Pipers picked on the wrong Lower East Side pickler yesterday, landing one of them a whole peck of trouble. The bumbling thugs entered The Pickle Guys shop on Essex Street at around 8:30 a.m. as owner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}