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SHOPPING

80-year-old store owner speaks out after shooting attempted armed robber

Maria B. White

An 80-year-old store owner has spoken out about shooting an attempted armed robber who pointed an AR-15 at him.

“It was him or me,” the store owner insisted.

Craig Cope was seen on surveillance video pulling out a shotgun at Norco Market & Liquor store in Norco, California, and blasting the gunman.

“There wasn’t much time to think about it, the guy pointed the gun directly at me and then it was him or me,” Mr Cope told FOX11.

“I was not going to give him a chance. I recognised it as a semi automatic, and maybe someone had converted it into an automatic, the equivalent of a machine gun, but I’m not going to let him get the first shot off at that point.”

Asked what his advice to any other would-be robbers was, he smiled and replied, “This isn’t a good place to pick.”

Mr Cope

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BEAUTY

Paulina Porizkova Responds to Unsolicited Plastic Surgery Advice

Maria B. White

Supermodel Paulina Porizkova is speaking out after she stumbled upon unsolicited advice and criticism about the appearance her own face a cosmetic surgeon had made on Instagram. Over the weekend, Porizkova responded to the doctor’s critiques in a lengthy post on the social media site, preaching about the harm such comments can cause.

In the caption of her post, Porizkova explained while scrolling through Instagram she recently came upon a selfie she once posted, which had been coopted by a cosmetic surgeon to point out all of the work they believed the 57-year-old model needed to get done. Porizkova then went over what the doctor suggested, which included filler, botox, and lasers. She also noted the surgeon’s post has since been deleted.

“This is what an older woman in the public eye gets to deal with. I’m told my face needs ‘fixing.’ It has somehow gone ‘wrong’ by aging,” she

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