{"id":90672,"date":"2023-03-11T00:32:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T06:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90672"},"modified":"2023-03-11T00:32:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T06:32:28","slug":"90672","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90672","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/georgia-man-crushed-death-attempting-steal-catalytic-converter-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia Man Crushed to Death While Trying to Steal Catalytic Converter: Police<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Georgia man was crushed to death by a car while he was allegedly attempting to steal a catalytic converter from a local auto-shop, police confirmed with Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Chatham County Police Department, Matthew Eric Smith, 32, was found dead on Tuesday at approximately 9:15 a.m., after a catalytic converter fell and crushed him at South Bound Auto Sales.<\/p>\n<p>Thefts of catalytic converters are surging across the nation as thieves seek out precious metals like platinum, palladium and rhodium that fill the inside of the antipollution car part.<\/p>\n<p>Autoshop owner Mike Abouharb shared that he found the man\u2019s body when he arrived at work in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn\u2019t even get close to him,&#8221; Abouharb told WTOC-TV. &#8220;I called the police right away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police ruled the death accidental, sharing that Smith\u2019s death was &#8220;the result of an attempted catalytic converter theft.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Man Crushed to Death While Trying to Steal Catalytic Converter: Police A Georgia man was crushed to death by a car while he was allegedly attempting to steal a catalytic converter from a local auto-shop, police confirmed with Fox News Digital. According to the Chatham County Police Department, Matthew Eric Smith, 32, was found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=90672\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darwin-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90673,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90672\/revisions\/90673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}