{"id":415762,"date":"2026-05-07T05:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415762\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T05:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:56:10","slug":"pew-pew-man-arrested-for-shooting-cafe-patrons-with-finger-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415762\/","title":{"rendered":"Pew pew: Man arrested for &#8216;shooting&#8217; cafe patrons with finger gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 47-year-old man was arrested after pretending to shoot staff and customers at a Dunedin cafe with his fingers.<\/p>\n<p>The man had left the Union St cafe when police were called at 12.25pm yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Staff alleged\u00a0the\u00a0man was pointing his fingers like a gun and mimicking shooting people inside the cafe.<\/p>\n<p>Customers described feeling\u00a0\u201cintimidated and threatened\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He was located and arrested on Cumberland St and is \u201cwell known to police\u201d, Sgt Matt Lee said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man had\u00a0been charged with behaving threateningly.<\/p>\n<p>He had made bail and is set to appear in court at a later date.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 47-year-old man was arrested after pretending to shoot staff and customers at a Dunedin cafe with his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-415762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}