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Strolling With Bullets

An old man was shot taking a walk in New York, just taking a walk, and maybe thinking about how near to death he was. It was then that he walked right into a stray bullet. We do not know where the bullet was going or where it would have gone had the old man not stepped in front of it. In another part of the metropolis, a baby is shot (quite by accident), in the head. It was crying in its stroller, but when the bullet arrived it fell silent. They say a young man was taking out his gun for a walk. When a cop saw the 9 milli It was almost 8 A.M at a crosswalk on 40second street. Bullets flew, a window, a pigeon, and a small dog were taken out. The gunfight was reported, as local news, as I watched the TV screen seemed to shrug, despite the busy street nobody witnessed, it just happened. Even so, It was considered to be yet another, 'New York miracle', for although the window that was shot had a hole in it, it survived.

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