{"id":26492,"date":"2022-02-16T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=26492"},"modified":"2022-02-16T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:30:00","slug":"from-the-cruiser-feb-8-to-feb-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=26492","title":{"rendered":"From the Cruiser &#8211; Feb. 8 to Feb. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Brought to you by:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;87&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EAST HANTS:<\/strong> During the week of Feb. 8 to Feb. 15, East Hants RCMP responded to 104 calls for service in the Municipality of East Hants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 13, East Hants RCMP received several prank calls to the number 911.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unidentified caller, who at times was threatening to dispatch call takers, sounded to be young in age, but clearly not in distress and not involved in any emergency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In total, the caller made 24 false calls to the number 911.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making false, frivolous or vexatious calls to the number 911 is an offense under the Nova Scotia 911 act and is punishable with a severe fine. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite February 14 being the day of love, it proved to be a particularly nasty day for driving in East Hants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RCMP officers responded to a total of 7 collisions and or crashes that occurred during the storm. Luckily, there were no serious injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police want to remind drivers that in the absence of driver impairment or vehicle mechanical malfunction, inattention and excessive speed are top contributors to roadway mishaps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s equally important to remember that both of these factors are within the driver\u2019s control and thus preventable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From the Cruiser is brought to you by:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;87&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brought to you by: [adrotate banner=&#8221;87&#8243;] EAST HANTS: During the week of Feb. 8 to Feb. 15, East Hants RCMP responded to 104 calls for service in the Municipality of East Hants. On February 13, East Hants RCMP received several prank calls to the number 911.&nbsp; The unidentified caller, who at times was threatening to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[196,3214,14],"class_list":["post-26492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-east-hants","tag-prank-911-calls","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26492","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=26492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}