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Craigslist Robbery Ends With Assailant Getting His Freakin’ Arm Ripped Off

Christian Datoc Senior White House Correspondent
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A would-be-robber walked away empty handed from an attempted heist in New York City Friday afternoon.

According to the New York Post, the assailant tried to rob another man — from whom he had arranged to buy a pair of Air Jordans on Craigslist — at gunpoint.

After having a gun brandished in his face through his open car window, the potential victim sped away, taking the robber’s firearm AND arm with him.

“I was walking up the sidewalk and I heard a boom behind me,” an on-scene postal worker told the Post. “I just kept it moving. I saw somebody run on the bus with a missing arm.”

Police later pulled over the bus in question, at which point the one-armed man collapsed in the street.

His condition remains unknown.

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