{"id":401,"date":"2004-03-17T09:02:39","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T13:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=401"},"modified":"2004-03-17T09:02:39","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T13:02:39","slug":"man-thought-he-was-running-over-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"Man thought he was running over bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px dotted #550; font size: 12x; padding: 5px; margin:\n5px;\">MONTPELLIER, France (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/newsflash\/international\/index.ssf?\/base\/international-0\/1079530747142760.xml\">AP<\/a>) ? A Frenchman was convicted for trying to run over a pedestrian he mistook for Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old, identified as a struggling artist named Pierre, was sentenced Tuesday by a court in this southern France city to a three-month suspended prison term and ordered to pay euro500 ($615) to the victim, who was unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s lawyer, David Mendel, said his client was traumatized by last week&#8217;s terror attacks in Madrid and was temporarily the &#8220;victim of a hallucination,&#8221; while driving Monday through Montpellier&#8217;s historic center.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, a man in his 30s, was able to run from the oncoming car, which crashed along the side of a street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t bin Laden,&#8221; Mendel said. &#8220;If it was, we would have won US$5 million.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTPELLIER, France (AP) ? A Frenchman was convicted for trying to run over a pedestrian he mistook for Osama bin Laden. The 35-year-old, identified as a struggling artist named Pierre, was sentenced Tuesday by a court in this southern France &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=401\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-6t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}