{"id":32277,"date":"2014-07-16T11:40:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T11:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=32277"},"modified":"2014-07-16T12:06:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T12:06:47","slug":"man-saved-by-laptop-and-passerby-after-crossbow-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=32277","title":{"rendered":"Man saved by laptop and passerby after crossbow attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-display-hint=\"\">\n<p>A man was saved by his laptop after a crossbow bolt was fired at him, before being wounded in the head with an axe on his driveway on the New South Wales central coast.<\/p>\n<p>Police have charged a 49-year-old man with attempted murder over the attack, which took place on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the 56-year-old victim was carrying a laptop on his driveway in Somersby when a man shot a loaded crossbow at him. When the bolt hit the man&#8217;s laptop, the attacker ran at the 56-year-old, striking him in the head with an axe.<\/p>\n<p>The pair began to struggle, before another man stepped in to help. The 56-year-old man was taken to hospital with a head wound. The 49-year-old man was arrested and police say they took a crossbow, knives and a piece of wire from him. He was charged with attempted murder and malicious wounding.<\/p>\n<p>The man was refused bail when he appeared at Gosford local court on Wednesday. He is due to appear in court via videolink in September.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Guardian<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was saved by his laptop after a crossbow bolt was fired at him, before being wounded in the head with an axe on his driveway on the New South Wales central coast. Police have charged a 49-year-old man with attempted murder over the attack, which took place on Tuesday afternoon. Police say the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":32280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1702,14],"class_list":["post-32277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-market-women","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}