{"id":39,"date":"2009-11-23T07:12:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T07:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.gotschmucked.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-11-23T07:12:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T07:12:02","slug":"clownsuesnypdoverballoninflatormistakenidentity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Clown Sues New York City for arrest over balloon inflator mistaken identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Alhovsky, a clown (his working profession, and not necessarily a description of his character traits) has sued the New York Police Department for physical and mental injuries.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Apparently My Alhovsky was arrested when he returned to a Starbucks to retrieve a balloon inflator that he left there.\u00a0 Starbucks employees called police to report a suspicious package (the balloon inflator) and police subsequently called the bomb squad to investigate.\u00a0 Police released the clown after a search of his home found nothing suspicious.\u00a0 A jury sided with NYPD against the excessive force case. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/ktrk\/story?section=news\/bizarre&amp;id=7129739\" target=\"_blank\">Link to Full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Alhovsky, a clown (his working profession, and not necessarily a description of his character traits) has sued the New York Police Department for physical and mental injuries.\u00a0\u00a0 Apparently My Alhovsky was arrested when he returned to a Starbucks to retrieve a balloon inflator that he left there.\u00a0 Starbucks employees called police to report a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/?p=39\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Clown Sues New York City for arrest over balloon inflator mistaken identity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotschmucked.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}