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“I want to hate these muggers and murderers. They should be forced to suffer, and, when they kill, they should be executed for their crimes,” the advertisement stated.

He drew his gun and made the mugger hand over the pocket knife, which he threw in the gutter.

First, he maneuvered his food truck to cut off the mugger; then he jumped out to confront the man.

He said that he was a friend of Mrs. Elliott’s daughter Kari McCabe, and that muggers had stolen his money and a term paper he had written about the criminal justice system.

Even the alleys looked inviting, with adult-sized nutcrackers casually loitering there instead of the usual muggers.