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    Manning the cash register at a 711 or a gas station is no laughing matter – especially at night when the crazies and the desperadoes come out. Many an immigrant tale of striving and dreams has ended in a hail of gunshots.  Here is one fiercely brave Indian immigrant who changed the outcome – but was she foolhardy or just plain lucky?

    WATCH: A gas station clerk in Georgia slaps the gun from the hand of the man who tries to rob her store http://spr.ly/6182Bd0fn

    (Courtesy: CNN Newssource)

    Clerk Fends Off Robber In Georgia Gas StationWATCH: A gas station clerk in Georgia slaps the gun from the hand of the man who tries to rob her store http://spr.ly/6182Bd0fn(Courtesy: CNN Newssource)

    Posted by 13 WHAM ABC on Thursday, March 3, 2016

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