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Going Out Without a Bang Too

A man went into a sex shop in St. Paul, Minn., and demanded the clerk exchange the ...uh... genital enlarging “pump” he had purchased, saying it “didn’t work as advertised.” The clerk refused, claiming that any difficulties the man was having were due to “operator error.” The man pulled a gun and pointed it at the clerk, but ran without getting an exchange. The man, police say, remains “at large.” (RC/Pioneer Press) ...Oh, so it’s working after all.
Original Publication Date: 10 January 2016
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 22.

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