{"id":34840,"date":"2013-03-30T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34840"},"modified":"2013-03-30T10:21:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T14:21:07","slug":"mall-cop-tosses-wounded-warrior-out-of-the-mall-for-speeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34840","title":{"rendered":"Mall cop tosses wounded warrior out of the mall for speeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wate.com\/story\/21832409\/wounded-soldier-says-he-was-kicked-out-of-mall-for-using-segway\">a link to a local story<\/a> in Tennessee in which wounded warrior Master Sgt. Michael Trost was tossed out of his local mall for speeding on his Segway, an Americans with Disabilities Act device he needs for walking long distances after being wounded in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A security guard approached me and said I was going to have to take out the Segway. I told him it was an ADA, or a handicap piece of equipment. I had the handicap sticker on it. He goes, not in this mall,&#8221; described Sgt. Trost.<\/p>\n<p>According to the mall, their policy does &#8220;permit the use of battery powered scooters and segways inside the shopping center by people with disabilities. They must be operated in a safe manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trost says he was operating in a safe manner. But after some back and forth, the mall security guard told him he was speeding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if he caught MSG Trost on radar. <\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of this <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/duD3d4kBbOA\">stereotypical mall cop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam sends us a link to a local story in Tennessee in which wounded warrior Master &hellip; <a title=\"Mall cop tosses wounded warrior out of the mall for speeding\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34840\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mall cop tosses wounded warrior out of the mall for speeding<\/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":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34840","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=34840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}