{"id":809,"date":"2006-03-17T22:20:26","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T02:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/03\/17\/god-almaty\/"},"modified":"2006-03-17T22:20:26","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T02:20:26","slug":"god-almaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/03\/17\/god-almaty\/","title":{"rendered":"GOD ALMATY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8160'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/05\/03\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\npremie.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"301\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>ALMATY<br \/>\n        (Reuters) &#8211; Burglars in Kazakhstan locked a funeral parlor employee in<br \/>\n        a coffin and kept him there unconscious while rummaging for cash in the<br \/>\n        shop.<\/p>\n<p>      Serik Sarsenbayev said he was on his own late at night when two masked<br \/>\n      burglars burst into the parlor and beat him until he fainted.<\/p>\n<p>      The thieves then nailed him into a wooden coffin and carried on their search<br \/>\n      for a money safe, he told Reuters by telephone from the steppe town of<br \/>\n      Temirtau.<\/p>\n<p>      He was later freed by the driver of the parlor&#8217;s hearse.<\/p>\n<p>      The thieves made away with the equivalent of $23,000 and remain at large,<br \/>\n      the daily Express K reported.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.excite.com\/\/article\/20060317\/2006-03-17T135100Z_01_L17200020_RTRIDST_0_ODD-KAZAKHSTAN-COFFIN-DC.html\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>What if he hadn&#8217;t woken up in time, and had suffocated?. Or worse, been<br \/>\n        buried alive, only to wake up in the dark, trapped&#8230;.Stories<br \/>\n        like these bring up early, unpleasant memories of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/05\/03\">scary<br \/>\n        movies<\/a> and things<br \/>\n        that went bump in the night. Also unanswered questions.&nbsp;Why did<br \/>\n        the Hearse driver find him? Why does a funeral parlor have $23,000 in<br \/>\n        cash lying around? What&#8217;s the difference between fainting and passing<br \/>\n        out? Inquiring minds want to know.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALMATY (Reuters) &#8211; Burglars in Kazakhstan locked a funeral parlor employee in a coffin and kept him there unconscious while rummaging for cash in the shop. Serik Sarsenbayev said he was on his own late at night when two masked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/03\/17\/god-almaty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}