{"id":705171,"date":"2010-03-30T22:22:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T02:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003917"},"modified":"2010-03-30T22:26:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T02:26:59","slug":"watch-out-the-j-c-penney-security-guard-has-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/705171","title":{"rendered":"Watch Out, The J.C. Penney Security Guard Has A Gun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/033010-006-gun-thumb-300x200-38756.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>If security guards start carrying guns at department stores, I&#8217;m going to stop referring to them as rent-a-cops. Not because they&#8217;ve suddenly jumped up on my respect-o-meter, but because they <i>might open fire<\/i>. At a mall in Virginia last Sunday, a J.C. Penney security guard pursued a shoplifter into the mall parking lot and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/news\/roanoke\/wb\/241528\">fired a gun<\/a> into the air. The shoplifter was arrested, and the police confiscated the guard&#8217;s gun. The store won&#8217;t say whether it was owned by the guard or issued by management.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, wearing clothes from J.C. Penney just became sort of bad-ass if you live in this town.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/news\/roanoke\/wb\/241528\">&#8220;Security guard&#8217;s gun use at Valley View Mall called &#8216;crazy'&#8221;<\/a> [Roanoke.com] <i>(Thanks to Tracy, who&#8217;s glad there&#8217;s a J.C. Penney catalog to shop from)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If security guards start carrying guns at department stores, I&#8217;m going to stop referring to them as rent-a-cops. Not because they&#8217;ve suddenly jumped up on my respect-o-meter, but because they might open fire. At a mall in Virginia last Sunday, a J.C. Penney security guard pursued a shoplifter into the mall parking lot and fired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XrJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}