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Celebrity chef Paul Prudhomme (of Paul Prudhomme’s Magic Seasoning Blends) says “he was in the midst of setting up his cooking tent at a golf tournament in New Orleans when he heard a kind of “whistley zing” and felt a sting in his arm. Prudhomme shook his shirt sleeve found a .22-caliber bullet in his long johns.” [NPR]
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