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09:22 September 13th, 2006

A disarmingly clever plan?

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Uncategorized

Hey, Big Boy, if you live in one city in Colombia, the price of living the wild, gun-toting gang life just went up.  Way up.

It turns out the girlfriends and wives of gang members in Pereira have called a ban on sex to persuade their menfolk to give up the gun. They are calling it the “crossed legs” strike, which pretty much says it all. If you’re still carrying that big rifle a week from now, people will start to talk. Here’s the story:colombia2300.jpg

 

 

 

Paramilitary soldiers hold up weapons during a ceremony to surrender their guns in La Mesa, Colombia, in this file photo taken March 10, 2006. REUTERS/Fredy Builes

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