{"id":28826,"date":"2012-02-21T15:20:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T19:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28826"},"modified":"2012-02-21T15:20:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T19:20:51","slug":"man-arrested-for-endangering-earthworms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28826","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for endangering earthworms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so maybe that&#8217;s not the charge, but those were the only living creatures endangered when Dennis Fleming, 61, of Farmington, New Hampshire came home and found his own home burglarized and saw Joseph Hebert, 27 coming out of a neighbor&#8217;s window. Fleming fired his legally-owned weapon into the ground to get Hebert&#8217;s attention and then held him for police. The police then put both men in handcuffs (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2012\/02\/21\/new-hampshire-man-faces-felony-charge-after-firing-gun-into-ground-near-burglar\/\">Fox News<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fleming&#8230;is scheduled to be arraigned March 20 on a charge of reckless conduct, which could potentially land him a sentence similar to the one Hebert faces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know it was illegal [to fire into the ground], but I had to make that guy realize I was serious,&#8221; Fleming said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a clean record. I really don&#8217;t want to be convicted.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>County Attorney Tom Velardi told Foster&#8217;s Daily Democrat he will review the case and determine if the charge against Fleming is appropriate under the state statutes regarding self-defense and defense of property.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope the city attorney comes to his senses and sees that Fleming made the best choice he could in that set of circumstances, and be grateful that Fleming didn&#8217;t make him prosecute a murder case instead.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so maybe that&#8217;s not the charge, but those were the only living creatures endangered when &hellip; <a title=\"Man arrested for endangering earthworms\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28826\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man arrested for endangering earthworms<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}