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Occupational Hazard

Two teen-aged robbers in Miami got a little carried away when they attempted to hold up a grocery store. The 18-year-old accidentally fired his gun, hitting his 16-year-old accomplice in the leg. The surprise and pain caused him to tightly grip his gun and it too went off — hitting the first robber in the leg. “I’ve had robbers shoot themselves before, but I never had two robbers shoot each other,” a police detective said after the two were arrested. “I knew there was a mistake,” said store clerk Aijaz Rizva. “They were the only ones bleeding.” (Reuters) ...Surely that was preferable to him.


Publication Date: 2 March 1996

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Volume 2, Page 102
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