{"id":216,"date":"2006-11-22T11:48:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T15:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2006-11-22T11:48:57","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T15:48:57","slug":"now-who-has-lumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Now who has lumps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Pulse&#8217;s editorial lambasts Knox County Commissioner &#8220;Lumpy&#8221; Lambert for putting a stop to an attempted armed robbery by pulling his own gun, thereby persuading the would-be robber to drop his weapon and leave (leaving behind his driver&#8217;s license, having just gone for a test-drive at Lambert&#8217;s car dealership), in a piece entitled, <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Metro Pulse: Lambert\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metropulse.com\/articles\/2006\/16_46\/editorial.shtml\"><strong><span class=\"style1\"><\/span><span class=\"style2\">Lambert has His Lumps All Right<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p>Thing is, once the sheriff&#8217;s department caught up with him, additional evidence came to light and the kid (he&#8217;s 19) would up being charged with first degree murder in a completely separate incident &#8212; the killing of a Walgreen&#8217;s truck driver in nearby Powell last weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"WATE: murderer caught\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wate.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=5709317&#038;nav=menu7_1\">WATE<\/a> has the story)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m with Lumpy on this one, folks.\u00c2\u00a0 For that matter, with <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"KNS: Burchett\" href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/kns\/local_news\/article\/0,1406,KNS_347_5149937,00.html\">Tim Burchett<\/a> too.\u00c2\u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t make me an advocate of vigilante justice, because neither of these responsible fellows exacted any punishment &#8212; but they stopped the crime, and allowed law enforcement to handle the rest.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve ever been a victim, you know how slow and uncertain the investigation process is.\u00c2\u00a0 I know.\u00c2\u00a0 I experienced it firsthand.<\/p>\n<p>In Lambert&#8217;s case, he not only helped solve the crime committed against him, but another, more serious offense.<\/p>\n<p>Metro Pulse is showing their pink stripe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Pulse&#8217;s editorial lambasts Knox County Commissioner &#8220;Lumpy&#8221; Lambert for putting a stop to an attempted armed robbery by pulling his own gun, thereby persuading the would-be robber to drop his weapon and leave (leaving behind his driver&#8217;s license, having &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=216\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}