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Woman Shops With Knife Protruding From Neck
DARBY, Pa. (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania woman spent the better part of an hour shopping at a
neighborhood grocery store without realizing that a passerby had stuck a knife into her neck, police
said on Saturday.
Darlene Jones, 62, set out from home on foot before 7 a.m. (1200 GMT) on Friday, when a running
passerby slapped her on the back of the neck or so she thought. She kept on going, as if nothing
had happened.
Jones walked to the Acme supermarket in the nearby community of Yeadon, just outside
Philadelphia, and bought a package of Oreo cookies and a newspaper before making the half-mile
(1-km) return journey to her house.
Only after she got home did her daughter notice the handle of a kitchen knife sticking out of her
mother's neck. The daughter yanked out the blade, releasing a gush of blood, and quickly got her
to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was listed in fair condition on Saturday.
``Five or six people walked right past her without even noticing,' Darby Police Chief Robert Smythe
told the Philadelphia Inquirer, while describing the incident as a 'random, vicious attack.'
Supermarket surveillance cameras later showed the woman strolling through the aisles of the store,
past clerks and customers, with the knife handle clearly visible.
Jones could not give police a description of her assailant, saying she did not even notice if it was a
man or a woman. |
