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Fri May 24 23:24:59 SAST 2013

Incestuous drunks are back

Orders TV, gets assault rifle

AFP | 10 August, 2012 00:28
SIG Sauer SIG716

Police in Washington are looking into how a resident who ordered a colour TV set via Amazon.com ended up with a high-powered semi-automatic assault rifle instead.

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Seth Horvitz, who lives in the northeast quadrant of the US capital, said he contacted police immediately after a parcel delivery service left the military-style SIG Sauer SIG716 at his apartment door. "They were a little confused at first. They've never seen anything quite like it," he told Fox 5, a local television station.

While the box was addressed to Horvitz, who had ordered a flat-screen TV from a retailer via Amazon.com, an invoice inside suggested the gun was supposed to go to a Pennsylvania gun shop.

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