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Oh Thank Heaven for 7-Eleven

Employees at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Grants Pass, Ore., called for help when a man came running into the store, asking for protection from a man who was chasing him. The man had been in a fight, “which culminated in at least two people being burned with hot oil,” police said later. One of the burned, a woman, was only slightly injured; the other, the man who ran into the store, proceeded to the Slurpee frozen drink machine and started dousing himself with the drink — Hawaiian Punch flavor, said store clerk Charlie Bentley. “I didn’t actually realize he was injured until police sat him down,” Bentley said, but he “got Slurpee everywhere.” The unidentified man was taken away by ambulance. Bentley said he has worked at 7-Eleven for 10 years, and this isn’t the weirdest incident he has seen. He did not elaborate. (RC/Wallowa County Chieftain) ...Beyond saying “in Florida.”