{"id":722211,"date":"2010-04-22T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T19:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004871"},"modified":"2010-04-22T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T19:33:41","slug":"man-sentenced-to-12-months-for-stealing-buns-from-burger-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/722211","title":{"rendered":"Man Sentenced To 12 Months For Stealing Buns From Burger King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/bunlessburger-thumb-240x180-39611.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>A fellow in the UK was recently sentenced to 12 months in the clink after using a broom handle to heist a bag of burger buns from his local Burger King. <\/p>\n<p>With a deadly broom handle at the ready, the master criminal talked his way into a then-closed BK and, say the local police, threatened a staff member &#8220;he would hit him with the broom handle unless he stayed still&#8230; Fearing he would be hurt, the member of staff complied, at which point [the robber] snatched a nearby bag of burger buns and fled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The absolute inanity of the theft wasn&#8217;t lost on the police:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why he felt the need to intimidate and threaten someone to that extent simply for a bag of burger buns is beyond comprehension and we welcome the one year prison sentence handed down to him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The robber entered guilty pleas to charges of robbery, possession of an offensive weapon, and obstructing police. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.croydonguardian.co.uk\/news\/8107105.Burger_King_bun_robber_jailed\/\" >Croydon Burger King bun robber jailed<\/a> [Croydon Guardian]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fellow in the UK was recently sentenced to 12 months in the clink after using a broom handle to heist a bag of burger buns from his local Burger King. With a deadly broom handle at the ready, the master criminal talked his way into a then-closed BK and, say the local police, threatened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"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-722211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31Sz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722211","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\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}