{"id":1060,"date":"2025-06-01T12:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T12:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2025-06-01T12:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T12:39:37","slug":"a-police-officer-forced-my-72-year-old-husband-to-lie-face-down-on-scorching-asphalt-all-because-his-exhaust-was-too-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/?p=1060","title":{"rendered":"A police officer forced my 72-year-old husband to lie face-down on scorching asphalt all because his exhaust was too loud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The cop made my 72-year-old husband lay face-down on the asphalt in 97-degree heat, his arthritic knees grinding against the burning pavement while four squad cars blocked traffic for what they called a \u201croutine stop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-three minutes Harold spent there, his gray beard pressed to the road, hands cuffed behind his back as passing motorists slowed to gawk at the \u201cdangerous biker\u201d being arrested. I heard one woman tell her kids to \u201clook at the criminal\u201d while my husband \u2013 a Bronze Star recipient who did two tours in Vietnam \u2013 baked on the concrete like roadkill. All because his motorcycle exhaust was \u201ctoo loud\u201d \u2013 the same pipes that had passed inspection just two weeks prior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young cop, Officer Kowalski, kept his boot near Harold\u2019s head the entire time, occasionally nudging him when he tried to shift position to relieve the agony in his knees. \u201cStay down, old man,\u201d he said loud enough for the gathering crowd to hear. \u201cThese old bikers think they own the roads. Time someone taught you different.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cop made my 72-year-old husband lay face-down on the asphalt in 97-degree heat, his arthritic knees grinding against the burning pavement while four squad cars blocked&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yxnews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}