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Good Samaritan Hits Thief With Frozen Fowl

Hobbled robber flees in car before police track him down

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 24, 2008 6:15 PM CST

(Newser) – A man armed with a frozen turkey helped hobble a carjacker yesterday in a North Carolina town, the News & Observer reports. The rescuer battered a crook as he attacked a woman in a grocery store parking lot. The robber jumped in her car, smashing... Read full story »

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