{"id":52759,"date":"2015-04-20T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52759"},"modified":"2015-04-19T10:41:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T15:41:40","slug":"the-blonde-is-obviously-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52759","title":{"rendered":"The Blonde Is Obviously Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the usual suspects \u2013 99% of Twitter users \u2013 jumped on board in attacking ESPN correspondent Brett McHenry for her altercation with the folks at an impound lot, I thought to myself “let’s hold out for a moment here”.<\/p>\n

Yes, sports “journalists” usually don’t rate much in the way of consideration. If Ancient Rome had had cable TV, ESPN would have made major bank covering gladiator fights.<\/p>\n

But if there’s a group of people in the world that have not earned themselves much in the way of indulgence for their behavior, it’s the folks at tag and tow impound lots like “Advanced Towing”, where Ms. McHenry had her dustup.<\/p>\n

Sure enough \u2013 a few days have past, and it looks entirely possible that Ms. McHenry’s outburst may have been rhetorical self-defens<\/a>e against a tag ‘n tow clerk who was, to put it politely, being a pig.<\/p>\n

A review of the company\u2019s Yelp page reveals many disgruntled customers who aren\u2019t just griping over the fact they got towed.
\nAccording to NBC Washington, there have been incidents where the company towed cars with a golden retriever and even children inside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Are you smelling what I’m cooking, “Mark’s” in Eagan, or Goebbels’ Towing in New Brighton?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the usual suspects \u2013 99% of Twitter users \u2013 jumped on board in attacking ESPN correspondent Brett McHenry for her altercation with the folks at an impound lot, I thought to myself “let’s hold out for a moment here”. Yes, sports “journalists” usually don’t rate much in the way of consideration. If Ancient Rome […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-media","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52759","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=52759"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52867,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52759\/revisions\/52867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}