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High School Prank Turns Deadly Serious

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An 18-year-old high school senior Anakin Zehring, was left paralyzed from the waist down after a tragic incident in a Walmart parking lot in Goddard, Kansas on May 11. Zehring and two friends were involved in a mock drive-by shooting, a part of a nationwide trend among high school seniors, using gel blasters to fire water-filled polymer beads at unsuspecting targets. The incident took a turn for the worse when the father of one of …

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Man Paralyzed After Sustaining Rare Injury While Honeymooning in Hawaii

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A honeymoon in Hawaii for an Atlanta man took a devastating turn when he suffered a rare spinal cord injury while surfing, resulting in paralysis from the waist down. Brendan Town was enjoying a two-week honeymoon with his wife, Cho Pak, when the unfortunate incident happened during a surfing lesson on September 7. Initially, Town thought he had strained a muscle and continued surfing, but soon his legs began to lose sensation. Medical professionals later …

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