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Unreal

A shopper at the Lenox Mall in Atlanta, Ga., was waiting for her 8-year-old son to try on some clothes in the Adidas store’s dressing room. The boy found a gun there, under a bench, and told his mother. The unnamed woman wasn’t sure what to do, so naturally she pulled the trigger to “determine if the gun was real,” the resulting police report notes. It was. She managed to not shoot her child, but the bullet caused “property damage” inside the store. Police confiscated the firearm, and didn’t charge the mother with any crime. (RC/WXIA Atlanta) ...Obliviocy: still legal in Georgia.
Original Publication Date: 10 September 2017
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.

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