{"id":188993349,"date":"2010-12-28T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=188993349"},"modified":"2010-12-28T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T10:09:09","slug":"when-a-driver-pedestrian-argument-escalates-to-gunplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=188993349","title":{"rendered":"When a driver-pedestrian argument escalates to gunplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Dave Jamieson<br \/>\nAre you the kind of self-righteous pedestrian who stares down drivers who block the crosswalk? Have you ever called an aggressive driver a \u201cdouchebag\u201d who needs to \u201cslow the hell down\u201d? Have you ever thrown your latest issue of the New Yorker at a car that came dangerously close to you within a designated crosswalk?<br \/>\nI\u2019ll admit I\u2019ve done all of the above. And it\u2019s stories like this one that make me think I should probably relax:<br \/>\nAccording to Prince William County Police, there was an altercation last Wednesday between a mother-son shopping duo and a couple inside a car in the parking lot outside the Burlington Coat Factory in Potomac Mills Mall. The car, which had a woman behind the wheel and a man in the passenger seat, nearly hit the 15-year-old boy and his mother. Words were exchanged between the two parties. Then the man in the passenger seat pulled out a handgun and pointed it at the mother and son. Argument over.<br \/>\nThe couple is wanted for \u201cbrandishing.\u201d They are both described as white and somewhere between the ages of 50 and 55. The car was a circa-1995 black Honda Civic with visible damage to the passenger side of the hood.<br \/>\nPerhaps the dents are from the body of the last person who told them to watch where they\u2019re going?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tbd.com\/blogs\/tbd-on-foot\/2010\/12\/when-a-driver-pedestrian-argument-escalates-to-gunplay-6499.html\">https:\/\/www.tbd.com\/blogs\/tbd-on-foot\/2010\/12\/when-a-driver-pedestrian-argument-escalates-to-gunplay-6499.html<\/a>oldId.20101228100909481<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dave Jamieson Are you the kind of self-righteous pedestrian who stares down drivers who block the crosswalk? Have you ever called an aggressive driver a \u201cdouchebag\u201d who needs to \u201cslow the hell down\u201d? Have you ever thrown your latest issue of the New Yorker at a car that came dangerously close to you within &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=188993349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When a driver-pedestrian argument escalates to gunplay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188993349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188993349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188993349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188993349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188993349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188993349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188993349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}