{"id":176953,"date":"2020-07-29T12:40:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T11:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=176953"},"modified":"2020-07-29T12:40:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T11:40:54","slug":"lad-chained-to-lamppost-freed-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/lad-chained-to-lamppost-freed-by-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Lad Chained To Lamppost Freed By Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A teen who\u2019s \u201cmates\u201d chained him to a lamppost with a bike chain was freed by police after flagging them down as they drove past.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_176961\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176961\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-176961\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/CCE11159-46F7-4D4F-AAB6-269CF46F9A6F-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/CCE11159-46F7-4D4F-AAB6-269CF46F9A6F-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/CCE11159-46F7-4D4F-AAB6-269CF46F9A6F-600x338.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/07\/CCE11159-46F7-4D4F-AAB6-269CF46F9A6F.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-176961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuck.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>His friends left their poor mate tied to the lamppost for hours before the police came and free him&#8230; some mates right?<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened in Leicester, and no, the police aren\u2019t looking for the guys who did it, they actually found it quite funny, as I\u2019m sure many of you reading this will! It\u2019s just a relief the camera man left the lads face out&#8230; you know, to save him any more embarrassment!<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A tweet from the force that rescued him read: &#8220;As they say, &#8216;every day&#8217;s different&#8217; in policing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Well, it certainly was this evening, when we were flagged down by this young lad who been tied to the post by his &#8216;friends&#8217; for a joke.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;The bolt croppers came to the rescue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A spokesman for Leicestershire Police said: &#8220;At around 9pm on Sunday, officers came across a youth in St Saviours Road who was fastened to a lamp post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-gxwzpm-margin-Advert\">\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Officers spoke to the youth, who said it had been done by friends as a prank.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;They used bolt cutters to free him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The thing that\u2019s on my mind is how did he even get restrained long enough to get bike locked to a lamppost? There must have been a lot of his friends in on the prank. Whether it\u2019s considered over the top or not, no one got hurt or anything so that\u2019s all that matters, and everyone involved can look back and laugh about it, even the police!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"css-14gsei8 container--next-up\" data-cypress=\"article-next-up\">\n<div class=\"css-b06fcq\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teen who\u2019s \u201cmates\u201d chained him to a lamppost with a bike chain was freed by police after flagging them down as they drove past.\u00a0 His friends left their poor mate tied to the lamppost for hours before the police came and free him&#8230; some mates right? The incident happened in Leicester, and no, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":176961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[100,71,101,43],"class_list":["post-176953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-news","category-uncategorized","tag-funny","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176962,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176953\/revisions\/176962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}