{"id":725,"date":"2006-02-21T10:01:56","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T18:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/if_youre_going_to_kill_over_sporting_events_at_least_make_it_short_track_skating_or_perhaps_even_the_4x10_kilometer_cross-country_relay.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:22:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:22:30","slug":"if_youre_going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/if_youre_going.html","title":{"rendered":"If You&#8217;re Going To Kill Over Sporting Events, At Least Make It Short Track Skating Or Perhaps Even The 4X10 Kilometer Cross-Country Relay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The worst thing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/60229.htm\">this story<\/a> is that no one &#8212; including the players! &#8212; actually gives a shit about the all-star game:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Brooklyn teen stabbed his best friend to death &#8212; telling cops a &#8220;stupid argument&#8221; about the NBA All-Star Game triggered the bloody violence, authorities said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Naquan Butts, 19, and Michael Bethune, 18, were watching the game with a couple of friends in Butts&#8217; Crown Heights apartment Sunday night, when Butts and Bethune began arguing.<\/p>\n<p>It started with each choosing a different team and claiming it was going to win, Butts told police.<\/p>\n<p>Then, he said, the trash talk turned physical and they found themselves tussling right out the apartment door and into the 10th-floor hallway at about 11:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Butts drew a knife and stabbed his pal once in the chest, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The mortally wounded Bethune stumbled into the elevator, but went nowhere before collapsing inside.<\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead at Interfaith Hospital at 12:50 a.m. yesterday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worst thing about this story is that no one &#8212; including the players! &#8212; actually gives a shit about the all-star game: A Brooklyn teen stabbed his best friend to death &#8212; telling cops a &#8220;stupid argument&#8221; about the NBA All-Star Game triggered the bloody violence, authorities said yesterday. Naquan Butts, 19, and Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","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=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}