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The convenience store apologized. The city promised not to do it again.
Now a former Gas 'N Shop manager wants both to pay for setting up a training drill in which she and others were ordered to the floor by two Schuyler, Neb., police officers posing as robbers.
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About 11 Gas 'N Shop managers were meeting in the sunroom of the store. Some knew the bogus bandits were coming.
Two men entered the store, brandishing firearms. They ordered the employees to the floor and made them turn over their wallets and purses.
The phony robbers were in the store for about 30 seconds. After they left, another Schuyler police officer arrived and took witness accounts.
The two bandits then returned, displayed their badges and told everyone it was a hoax.
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http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=1638&u_sid=1236356WTF? Sounds like a CRIME to me, even though the police did it. And what if one of the unsuspecting mangers had a personal firearm and decided to shoot the "intruders"?