
{"id":3559,"date":"2008-10-02T07:57:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T15:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2008-10-02T07:57:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T15:57:58","slug":"mayor-chilton%e2%80%99s-scooter-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/10\/02\/mayor-chilton%e2%80%99s-scooter-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Chilton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s scooter stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mark Chilton had an unfortunate surprise when he woke up last Thursday morning \u00e2\u20ac\u201c his scooter had been stolen out of his yard.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nChilton purchased the scooter, an orange Mio 50, from the Scooter Store about six months ago. He said it was worth about $2,000. <\/p>\n<p>Chilton said that he locked the scooter most nights, but hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153People need to realize that scooters are a popular target for thieves and they need to be locked,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. Chilton encouraged anyone who sees someone walking a scooter instead of riding it to call 911. <\/p>\n<p>Capt. J.G. Booker of the Carrboro Police Department said scooter and bicycle thefts are probably more common in the Carrboro community than other towns. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We probably get more of that than most places just because of the nature of the way people commute in this community,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We have a lot of folks \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with the student population and even the professional population \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that commute by other means than big cars.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Chilton said that while he was disappointed, there was one good thing that came out of the theft: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Maybe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be out on my bike more.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Dickson Staff Writer Mayor Mark Chilton had an unfortunate surprise when he woke up last Thursday morning \u00e2\u20ac\u201c his scooter had been stolen out of his yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}