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Flying Cans of Tobacco Deter Would-Be Robber

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April 15, 2008

The clerk at a cigarette store figured out the best way to stop a robbery. It wasn't the alarm, or even a gun. Police in Des Moines, Iowa, say that when the man struck, the clerk started pelting him with cans of chewing tobacco.

 
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