{"id":229,"date":"2009-12-10T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~zong\/wpress\/?p=229"},"modified":"2009-12-10T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T21:18:10","slug":"times-square-scammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"times square scammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the news today,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nNYC police: Officer kills Times Square scammer<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A plainclothes cop chased a Times Square scam artist through sidewalks crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists Thursday, exchanging gunfire that shattered Broadway theater and gift shop windows, before killing the suspect near a landmark hotel, police said.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe slain man was not immediately identified. Officers suspected him and his partner were working a scam in which they would approach tourists, ask them their names, then write their names on the CDs and demand payment of $10.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad I didn&#8217;t take any of those CD&#8217;s hawked to me every morning in times square last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the news today, NYC police: Officer kills Times Square scammer NEW YORK \u2014 A plainclothes cop chased a Times Square scam artist through sidewalks crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists Thursday, exchanging gunfire that shattered Broadway theater and gift shop windows, before killing the suspect near a landmark hotel, police said. &#8230; The slain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[609,84,603,604,165,610,606,608,607],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cop","tag-gift","tag-holiday-shoppers","tag-landmark-hotel","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-scam-artist","tag-scammer","tag-shop-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}