{"id":2250,"date":"2019-02-11T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2019-02-11T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T01:28:08","slug":"police-recommend-putting-nacho-cheese-in-pockets-to-thwart-pickpockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2019\/02\/11\/police-recommend-putting-nacho-cheese-in-pockets-to-thwart-pickpockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Police recommend putting nacho cheese in pockets to thwart pickpockets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After video footage was released of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrcbtv.com\/story\/39943810\/man-swipes-phone-pickpocketing-woman-standing-in-line\">pickpocket stealing a woman&#8217;s phone<\/a> at a convenience store, Chattanooga Police recommended that people put nacho cheese in their pockets to discourage theft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be a victim, especially to some douchebag thief who dresses like Silent Bob&#8217;s friend Jay,&#8221; said officer Terry Maptrost. &#8220;The best way to thwart  would-be pickpockets is to fill your pockets with nacho cheese.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maptrost advised that any liquid cheese would do the job and said that using slices of American cheese was not recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ll also want to avoid hard cheeses, like Pecorino, cheddar or Gouda,&#8221; said Maptrost. &#8220;Ladies, just squirt a few pumps of nacho cheese into your  purse, and you&#8217;re good to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Imagine the look on some jerkwad&#8217;s face when he withdraws his hand  from your pocket, not holding a wallet, but covered with warm, gooey  nacho cheese,&#8221; said Maptrost. &#8220;Busted! This is na-cho lucky day, sucka.&#8221;<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After video footage was released of a pickpocket stealing a woman&#8217;s phone at a convenience store, Chattanooga Police recommended that people put nacho cheese in their pockets to discourage theft. &#8220;Don&#8217;t be a victim, especially to some douchebag thief who dresses like Silent Bob&#8217;s friend Jay,&#8221; said officer Terry Maptrost. &#8220;The best way to thwart would-be pickpockets is to fill your pockets with nacho cheese.&#8221; Maptrost advised that any liquid cheese would do the job and said that using slices of American cheese was not recommended. &#8220;You&#8217;ll also want to avoid hard cheeses, like Pecorino, cheddar or Gouda,&#8221; said Maptrost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}