{"id":662699,"date":"2026-05-11T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662699\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:41:09","slug":"driver-scores-own-goal-with-unsecured-soccer-net-atop-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662699\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Scores &#8216;Own Goal&#8217; With Unsecured Soccer Net Atop Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A driver scored what police called an \u201cown goal\u201d when he pulled out right in from of them with a cumbersome, unsecured soccer net perched on top of his car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said that while the dashcam clip they released was funny, \u201cthere\u2019s a serious side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the UK, they said, \u201cdriving with an insecure load is illegal and classed as dangerous. Serious cases can even lead to prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver in this case was fined \u00a3120, and given three penalty points. Credit: Hertfordshire Constabulary via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver scored what police called an \u201cown goal\u201d when he pulled out right in from of them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-662699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}