{"id":232,"date":"2009-01-26T08:02:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T08:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=232"},"modified":"2009-01-26T08:02:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T08:02:31","slug":"goat-detained-for-armed-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/26\/goat-detained-for-armed-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Goat detained for armed robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.co.uk\/odd\/a144466\/goat-detained-for-armed-robbery.html\" target=\"blank\">Digital Spy&#8217;s Odd Section<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A goat has been detained on suspicion of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Robbery\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robbery\">armed robbery<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Police\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Police\">police<\/a> in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Nigeria\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> have confirmed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>A group of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Vigilante\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vigilante\">vigilantes<\/a> caught the animal and took it to the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Kwara State\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kwara_State\">Kwara state<\/a> force where they alleged that it had attempted to steal a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mazda\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mazda\">Mazda<\/a> 323, reports <em>Metro<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The local group claimed that a criminal had used <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Black magic\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_magic\">black magic<\/a> to transform himself into a goat in order to escape the scene.<br \/>\nPolice spokesman Tunde Mohammed said: &#8220;The group of vigilante men came to report that while they were on patrol they saw some hoodlums attempting to rob a car. They pursued them. However, one of them escaped while the other turned into a goat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We cannot confirm the story, but the goat is in our custody. We cannot base our information on something <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Magic (paranormal)\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magic_%28paranormal%29\">mystical<\/a>. It is something that has to be proved scientifically, that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Human\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human\">human<\/a> being turned into a goat.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Digital Spy&#8217;s Odd Section: A goat has been detained on suspicion of armed robbery, police in Nigeria have confirmed. A group of vigilantes caught the animal and took it to the Kwara state force where they alleged that it had attempted to steal a Mazda 323, reports Metro. The local group claimed that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,13,17],"tags":[90,200,280,933,1272,1465,1583,1707,1740,1800,1813,1922,1923,2168,2398,2563],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gibberish","category-humour","category-linkage","tag-90","tag-africa","tag-armed-robbery","tag-digital-spy","tag-goat","tag-human","tag-january","tag-kwara-state","tag-law","tag-linkage-2","tag-livestock","tag-mazda","tag-mazda-323","tag-nigeria","tag-police","tag-robbery","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-3K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}