{"id":516630,"date":"2010-04-05T18:58:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T22:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec7b70ff970b"},"modified":"2010-04-05T18:58:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T22:58:49","slug":"gunman-robs-pinks-hot-dog-stand-takes-tip-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516630","title":{"rendered":"Gunman robs Pink&#8217;s hot dog stand, takes tip jar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef011571006978970b-800wi\" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef011571006978970b-800wi\" style=\"width: 603px; height: 341px;\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>A gunman robbed the landmark Pink&#8217;s Hot Dogs early Monday, stealing a<br \/>\n tip jar when employees were unable to open a safe, Los Angeles police<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>The thief, who was captured on surveillance video, walked up<br \/>\n to the restaurant at the intersection La Brea Ave. near Melrose Ave.<br \/>\naround 3:35 a.m. and demanded cash from a safe.<\/p>\n<p>When employees<br \/>\nsaid they could not access the money, the man stole a tip jar from the<br \/>\ncounter.<\/p>\n<p>Pink&#8217;s, known for its chili dogs and long lines, was founded in 1939<br \/>\nopened it&#8217;s La Brea Avenue restaurant in 1946.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Wilshire Division Robbery<br \/>\n detectives are handling the investigation. Anyone with information is<br \/>\nasked to call the station&#8217;s detective desk at (213) 922-8205<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Andrew<br \/>\n Blankstein\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Pinks Hot Dog stand in Hollywood. L.A. Times file<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gunman robbed the landmark Pink&#8217;s Hot Dogs early Monday, stealing a tip jar when employees were unable to open a safe, Los Angeles police said. The thief, who was captured on surveillance video, walked up to the restaurant at the intersection La Brea Ave. near Melrose Ave. around 3:35 a.m. and demanded cash from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}