{"id":1268,"date":"2015-09-23T08:55:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T15:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2015-09-23T08:55:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T15:55:16","slug":"man-punches-old-guy-over-costco-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"Man Punches Old Guy Over Costco Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.sfgate.com\/blogs\/images\/sfgate\/parenting\/2010\/08\/04\/costco_sample320x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So apparently you should be careful when taking free samples at Costco, because someone else might want them all for themself. \u00a0People are VERY protective of their Nutella. \u00a0Guy could get 11 years but I think they&#8217;ll plea bargain it down to him just giving up his Costco membership card.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>BURBANK \u2014 A 24-year-old man has been charged with elder abuse after authorities say he punched a 78-year-old man over free Nutella waffle samples at a Los Angeles-area Costco store.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Prosecutors say Derrick Gharabighi, of Burbank, was charged Tuesday. He pleaded not guilty in an<\/em> <em>afternoon court appearance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He is being held on $50,000 bail, and he faces a maximum sentence of 11 years in prison if convicted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Los Angeles County district attorney&#8217;s office says he was hoarding samples of the waffles at the Burbank Costco on Sunday morning when the 78-year-old told him to take just one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Prosecutors say Gharabighi then punched the older man in the face.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"ndn-widget-embed-1\" class=\"ndn_embed ndn_embedContainer ndn-widget-embed-1 ndn_widget_VideoPlayer-Default ndn_embedded\" data-config-widget-id=\"2\" data-config-type=\"VideoPlayer\/Single\" data-config-tracking-group=\"91264\" data-config-playlist-id=\"13434\" data-config-video-id=\"29728713\" data-config-site-section=\"santarosa\">\n<div class=\"ndn_floatContainer ndn_floatContainer_disabled\">\n<div id=\"ndn-widget-embed-1-player\" class=\"ndn_playerContainer ndn_floatContainer_contents ndn_videoPlayer ndn_videoPlayer_largeView ndn_videoPlayer_view1198 ndn_videoPlayer_view1022 ndn_videoPlayer_view999 ndn_videoPlayer_view849 ndn_videoPlayer_view784 ndn_videoPlayer_view766 ndn_videoPlayer_view702 ndn_videoPlayer_view639 ndn_videoPlayer_view574 ndn_videoPlayer_view499 akamai-flash akamai-player akamai-desktop akamai-medium-video akamai-playing\" data-amp=\"\">\n<div class=\"akamai-video akamai-layer\"><em>\u00a0Police say the senior citizen was hospitalized with a 1-inch cut and swelling above his eye.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So apparently you should be careful when taking free samples at Costco, because someone else might want them all for themself. \u00a0People are VERY protective of their Nutella. \u00a0Guy could get 11 years but I think they&#8217;ll plea bargain it down to him just giving up his Costco membership card. &nbsp; BURBANK \u2014 A 24-year-old <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1268\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customer-stories"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}