{"id":1590,"date":"2007-11-08T08:02:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T13:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2007-11-08T08:19:40","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T13:19:40","slug":"1590","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some lessons to be learned in Henco Commissioner Mike Opat&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/west\/story\/1536202.html\">escape from a pair of carjacking scumbags<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Opat was about to get into his Jeep outside his home in Robbinsdale at about 10 p.m. Tuesday night when he saw the two strangers approaching in the dark, [Henco PR flak and one-time hottest woman in the Twin Cities Media Carolyn] Marinan said Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner nodded in friendly greeting, then turned to slip his Jeep key into the lock.<\/p>\n<p>Within moments, he had been hit with the butt of a sawed-off shotgun, knocked down, kicked and punched. After he grabbed the gun and managed to break free of his assailants, Opat bolted from the alley, yelling for his neighbors\u2019 help.<\/p>\n<p>The robbers fled with his 1999 Jeep, as well as his wallet, cell phone and Blackberry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lessons for everyone; sometimes, resisting is your best option.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos, Councilman Opat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some lessons to be learned in Henco Commissioner Mike Opat&#8217;s escape from a pair of carjacking scumbags: Opat was about to get into his Jeep outside his home in Robbinsdale at about 10 p.m. Tuesday night when he saw the two strangers approaching in the dark, [Henco PR flak and one-time hottest woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}