{"id":1314,"date":"2011-08-03T22:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T22:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2011-08-03T22:47:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T22:47:40","slug":"Mayor-crushes-cars-in-bike-lane-with-a-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/03\/Mayor-crushes-cars-in-bike-lane-with-a-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor crushes cars in bike lane with a tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, no, this isn&#8217;t San Francisco, it&#8217;s Vilnius, Lithuania. Let&#8217;s find out what the San Francisco mayoral candidates think about this<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFrom the <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/02\/vilnius-mayor-crushes-car-in-bike-lane-with-a-tank\/\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fed up with the number of luxury vehicles parking in a bike path along a main thoroughfare in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, the city\u2019s mayor, Arturas Zuokas, released a video in which he uses some military-grade machinery to crush an illegally parked Mercedes Benz.<br \/>\n\u201cMayor Zuokas wanted his message to be loud and clear that the city will not tolerate brazen and disrespectful behavior by drivers who disobey parking rules,\u201d his spokeswoman, Irma Juskenaite, told the Guardian. \u201cThe mayor hopes that he will not have to repeat his performance,\u201d she said, \u201calthough he says that he is prepared to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Posted on the mayor\u2019s YouTube channel and clearly staged, the gonzo public service announcement quickly struck a nerve online, drawing some to imagine their own cities\u2019 mayors in such a role.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IvGaSct3cJk?version=3\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IvGaSct3cJk?version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, no, this isn&#8217;t San Francisco, it&#8217;s Vilnius, Lithuania. Let&#8217;s find out what the San Francisco mayoral candidates think about this From the New York &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-bike","tag-3-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}