Pumpkin helps knock out robbery suspect
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Washington Post Editors
A man knocked out another man who had broken into his house by hurling a pumpkin at him, according to this report:
"He pulled a knife on me, and he just started running off, and I could have everything back. He thought I was just going to let him go," Bridges said.
Bridges said he wasn't going to the let the man get away. He ran after him for about a mile until they ended up on a side street. Then he picked up a giant pumpkin from a nearby back yard and threw it at the man's head.
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Washington Post Editors
| November 12, 2010; 6:38 AM ET
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