{"id":59260,"date":"2015-04-14T12:33:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T16:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59260"},"modified":"2015-04-14T12:33:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T16:33:17","slug":"phony-cop-blames-senior-moment-for-stopping-real-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59260","title":{"rendered":"Phony cop blames &#8220;senior moment&#8221; for stopping real cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=59261\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59261\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/JOHN-ARTHUR-BENEDICT.jpg\" alt=\"JOHN-ARTHUR-BENEDICT\" width=\"260\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59261\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Andy11M sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/04\/14\/john-arthur-benedict-fake-cop_n_7061182.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592\">Huffington Post<\/a> which tells of John Arthur Benedict who blames a &#8220;senior moment&#8221; for pulling over a pair of real police detectives with his Crown Vic which was equipped with strobe and flashing lights, in Lee County, Florida;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The officers drove a white, unmarked SUV that Benedict later claimed he saw speeding. Police said that the fake cop drove a Crown Victoria with strobe lights and a &#8220;police interceptor&#8221; emblem on it. From afar the cruiser looked legit, so the driver of the undercover vehicle pulled over. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Benedict later described the incident as a &#8220;senior moment,&#8221; and said he&#8217;d never done anything like that before. However, the man&#8217;s son admitted his dad had impersonated a cop before, turning on the strobe lights to direct traffic at accident scenes in Lee and Harris counties, according to the police report.<\/p>\n<p>A neighbor told WBBH that Benedict&#8217;s car had him fooled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I definitely thought it was real and he might be a cop,&#8221; Jack Deraps told the station. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if Benedict is also a member of MESNA [sic]. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy11M sends us a link to the Huffington Post which tells of John Arthur Benedict who &hellip; <a title=\"Phony cop blames &#8220;senior moment&#8221; for stopping real cops\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59260\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phony cop blames &#8220;senior moment&#8221; for stopping real cops<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59260","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=59260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}