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In September in Edmonton, Alberta, 56-year-old Robert Rozenhart won his seven-year lawsuit against Skier’s Sportshop, recovering damages for injuries he’d suffered on his first in-line skating attempt. The store’s staff had reassured Rozenhart that in-line skates worked a lot like ice skates, and when his instructor was late, he insisted (over employee protests) on venturing out on his own; he was on a downhill slope when he realized he did not know how to stop.
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In September in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Octavio Soto, 44, and Jose Cezares, 23, were hospitalized with third-degree burns after they attempted to cut into the gas tank of a car, in which they’d hidden $100,000 worth of marijuana; they’d removed the tank and carried it into a basement to work on it with a reciprocating saw, and a spark from the blade ignited the gasoline vapors. And in October in Indianapolis, two armed men tried to rob a woman and her husband in their car at a Swifty service station, but the attendant flicked the pump’s hose at the men, dousing them with gas and sending them scampering.
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