{"id":1082,"date":"2010-07-27T17:39:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T17:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:30:14","slug":"pulling-off-the-ritz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/pulling-off-the-ritz\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulling off the Ritz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-10772814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the Beeb<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A jobless lorry driver who pulled off an &#8220;elaborate and outrageous scam&#8221; to sell London&#8217;s Ritz Hotel for \u00a3250m has been jailed for five years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, come on! This story is hilarious. What happened to the good old British sense of humour? I mean, an unemployed lorry driver successfully passes himself off as a good friend of the Barclay brothers and people actually believe him. For this he is punished?<\/p>\n<p>Quoth Det Sgt Ridler, the policeman who led the investigation: &#8220;It was well-planned, it was well thought out and there were victims [&#8230;] Reputations were ruined.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes indeed, people were revealed as immensely gullible and\/or greedy. It was the kind of thing that was bound to come out eventually so he probably did them a favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Beeb: A jobless lorry driver who pulled off an &#8220;elaborate and outrageous scam&#8221; to sell London&#8217;s Ritz Hotel for \u00a3250m has been jailed for five years. Oh, come on! This story is hilarious. What happened to the good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/pulling-off-the-ritz\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[140,141],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life","tag-crime","tag-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}