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Man swaps rocket launcher for trainers

A headline whose story could only originate in the USA…

Police who launched a gun amnesty in Florida were shocked when a man handed in a surface-to-air rocket launcher. Under the Kicks for Guns programme, anyone who handed in a weapon was given a pair of trainers, reports the Orlando Sentinel.

One man, who has not been identified, took advantage by exchanging the four-foot-long launcher for a pair of Reeboks for his daughter. The owner said he found the weapon in a shed he tore down.

He told the Orlando Sentinel: “I didn’t know what to do with it, so I brought it here. I took it to three dumps to try to get rid of it and they told me to get lost.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .