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Head Banger

Victoria Colon, 28, filed a worker’s compensation claim for injuries sustained while working at a North Bergen, N.J., Target store. She claimed that a box she was carrying hit the edge of a shelf, and then boxes fell off the shelves and struck her head, neck and back. But when managers checked security camera videos, they saw something very different. According to prosecutors, the video showed Colon loosening a shelf in the storeroom so the boxes on it would fall when she bumped into it. She then positioned herself under the boxes before pulling a shopping cart containing additional items onto herself. Then she picked up a package and hit herself in the head with it several times. Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Mike Zevitz said that, if convicted, Colon could face up to ten years in prison. “If you are considering a crime,” he said, “you have to remember eyes are on you when you least expect it.” (MS/Jersey Journal) ...And the middle of a major department store is where you’d least expect security cameras, right?
Original Publication Date: 18 March 2012
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.

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