{"id":14282,"date":"2016-03-02T16:47:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T21:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=14282"},"modified":"2016-03-02T16:52:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T21:52:17","slug":"nyc-dog-owner-attacks-mailman-with-aluminum-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/03\/02\/nyc-dog-owner-attacks-mailman-with-aluminum-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC dog owner attacks mailman with aluminum bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14283\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/carrier-struck-by-bat.jpg\" alt=\"carrier-struck-by-bat\" width=\"478\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/carrier-struck-by-bat.jpg 478w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/carrier-struck-by-bat-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>A mailman in the Bronx was beat with a bat yesterday by a dog owner who took offense to the postman\u2019s request that she leash the animals, police said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 61-year-old letter carrier was on his route in Morris Heights about 2:30 p.m. when he encountered the suspect, along with her two unleashed hounds.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Numerous times the US Postal employee asked the woman to keep her dogs away and leash them up before continuing on to deliver the mail.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But shortly after, inside the lobby of 1886 Harrison Avenue, the worker was again met by the dog owner \u2014 only this time the lunatic was armed with a bat.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cYou think I won\u2019t use my bat?\u201d she fumed, then whacked the mailman in the back with the gold aluminum slugger, according to police.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He was struck a second time in elbow when he chased the suspect down the hall to learn where she lives.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The suspect ultimately escaped up a flight of stairs and remains on the loose.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The mailman was treated for his injuries at Lincoln Hospital.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read this story at the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/03\/02\/dog-owner-attacks-mailman-with-aluminum-bat\/\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mailman in the Bronx was beat with a bat yesterday by a dog owner who took offense to the postman\u2019s request that she leash the animals, police said. The 61-year-old letter carrier was on his route in Morris Heights about 2:30 p.m. when he encountered the suspect, along with her two unleashed hounds. Numerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14284,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282\/revisions\/14284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}