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Food shop owner with 8-pound ham foils robbery attempt by teen-agers

By Associated Press, 11/9/2001 14:42

GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) Three teen-agers trying to rob a food shop were scared off when the owner hurled an 8-pound ham and started swinging his fists.

''They didn't get anything,'' said Morris McClure, 61. ''I've worked too hard to give up my money to three punks like that.''

Sheriff Steve Cronic said McClure was attacked Thursday after one of the teens asked for ham.

''I went in the back, and when I came back out two of them jumped me,'' McClure said. ''They hit me in the head with something. It hurt like the dickens, but I didn't go down.''

McClure he lobbed the ham, then ''got one real good in the stomach with a left.''

With McClure in pursuit the teen-agers fled, along with a third teen-ager standing outside the store. They were arrested shortly after McClure gave police a description.

Two 17-year-olds were charged with attempted robbery. A 16-year-old was being held at a youth detention center.

-- Anonymous, November 09, 2001

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Maybe they just wanted a loin?

-- Anonymous, November 10, 2001

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