{"id":35397,"date":"2013-05-02T08:40:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35397"},"modified":"2013-05-02T08:40:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:40:40","slug":"blind-vet-kicks-criminals-butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35397","title":{"rendered":"Blind vet kicks criminal&#8217;s butt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff and ROS send us <a href=\"http:\/\/m.okcfox.com\/news\/Blind_Veteran_Attacked_on_His_Way_to_the_VA_Hospital?mobileredirect=true\">links<\/a> to the story of Gordon Besaw and his seeing-eye dog Derby who were on their way to the VA hospital in Oklahoma for treatment for glaucoma when they bumped into Christopher Andrews. Andrews accosted Besaw and got the surprise of his life when the veteran threw him to the ground;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I pulled his shirt and turned my hip and I just hip-tossed him onto the ground,&#8221; says Gordan. Once he got Andrew on the ground, Gordan put him in a choke-hold and held him until police arrived. He says it was instinct. &#8220;I just didn&#8217;t want to hurt the guy, and I didn&#8217;t want him to hurt me,&#8221; he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koco.com\/news\/oklahomanews\/okc\/blind-oklahoma-city-man-subdues-attacker-police-say\/-\/11777584\/19968642\/-\/eo0wu3z\/-\/index.html#ixzz2S8amGcUw\">KOKO<\/a> writes that maybe Andrews isn&#8217;t the sharpest knife in the drawer;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Andrew told police when he &#8220;gets out of jail, he&#8217;s going to apply for the police and demand a Lexus because he&#8217;s better than everyone else.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That boy ain&#8217;t right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff and ROS send us links to the story of Gordon Besaw and his seeing-eye dog &hellip; <a title=\"Blind vet kicks criminal&#8217;s butt\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35397\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blind vet kicks criminal&#8217;s butt<\/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":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35397","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=35397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}