{"id":19662,"date":"2021-02-10T22:39:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=19662"},"modified":"2021-02-10T22:39:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:39:06","slug":"driver-asks-police-for-drive-during-height-of-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=19662","title":{"rendered":"Driver asks police for drive during height of blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>EAST HANTS:<\/strong> A stranded motorist thought calling 911 for a lift into Dartmouth during the height of the snowstorm on Feb. 8 was a good idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell, with East Hants RCMP, said early on the morning, a 911 call was received by RCMP in Enfield. It was from a motorist who said he was stuck in a service station parking lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe driver, who was safe and warm inside the 24-hour service station, stated he wanted police to brave the storm and head out on treacherous roads to pick him up,\u201d said S\/Sgt. Bushell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe stated he wanted a lift to Dartmouth and CAA had refused.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police also had bad news for the motorist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe also politely declined,\u201d said S\/Sgt. Bushell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;110&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST HANTS: A stranded motorist thought calling 911 for a lift into Dartmouth during the height of the snowstorm on Feb. 8 was a good idea. S\/Sgt. Cory Bushell, with East Hants RCMP, said early on the morning, a 911 call was received by RCMP in Enfield. It was from a motorist who said he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[1833,196,1834],"class_list":["post-19662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-caa","tag-east-hants","tag-snowstorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}