{"id":51709,"date":"2014-06-19T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51709"},"modified":"2014-06-19T12:56:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:56:43","slug":"rickey-wagoner-phony-crime-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51709","title":{"rendered":"Rickey Wagoner; phony crime victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=51712\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51712\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wagner-300x287.jpg?resize=300%2C287\" alt=\"Wagner\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wagner.jpg?resize=300%2C287&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wagner.jpg?resize=347%2C333&amp;ssl=1 347w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wagner.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Some of you may have read about Rickey Wagoner, a 49-year-old in Dayton, Ohio who claimed that a Bible in his pocket had saved him from some thugs who tried to rob him. He even had a bullet wound in his leg to prove the encounter. Well, Dayton police are doubtful that it happened that, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jun\/19\/bus-driver-who-said-bible-saved-him-from-bullets-o\/\">Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis assault, as reported, is not true, not accurate,\u201d said Dayton Police Chief Richard Biehl at a recent news conference, The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>Police aren\u2019t going as far as saying the entire story was a fabrication, but they are saying that simulated firings show that a Bible wouldn\u2019t have protected the victim from wounds.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>His story made national headlines \u2014 especially because of the Bible angle that seemed to suggest his saving was directly due to a higher power. But now police say his story can\u2019t be true, and that the Bible couldn\u2019t have saved him as he insisted, AP said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everyone is phony, I guess. By the way, you didn&#8217;t read about Mr. Wagoner here until today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may have read about Rickey Wagoner, a 49-year-old in Dayton, Ohio who claimed that a Bible in his pocket had saved him from some thugs who tried to rob him. He even had a bullet wound in his leg to prove the encounter. Well, Dayton police are doubtful that it happened that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wagner.jpg?fit=640%2C613&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-ds1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}