Officer’s lost gun mistaken for toy
From Times Wire Reports
Hours after an off-duty Philadelphia police officer reported losing a small gun he had in his pocket, a 17-year-old girl found it on an amusement park ride in Ocean City and, thinking the gun was a toy, fired it into a beach dune.
She inadvertently sat on the gun while climbing into the Slingshot ride at Gillian’s Wonderland Pier. Even after firing it, she thought the .22-caliber revolver was a toy. The girl and her family contacted police the next day once they realized the gun was real.
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