Workers Hide From Gunmen At Indiana Post Office

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Updated: 12/20/2012 6:36 am
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - Police say four workers hid inside a Fort Wayne post office for more than two hours after two masked gunmen entered the building.

The gunmen were no longer inside when officers entered the building Wednesday evening. City police spokeswoman Raquel Foster tells WANE-TV that officers surrounded the post office and treated it as a possible hostage scene since a worker calling from a safe area didn't know whether the gunmen were still inside.

The Journal Gazette reports police closed off several streets near the post office on the city's southeast side. Police said one customer who was inside when the gunmen entered the office came out when officers arrived.

No injuries or gunshots were reported. Police didn't immediately say whether anything was stolen.

(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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Economystic - 12/20/2012 3:49 PM
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These are Post Office employees and it is HOLIDAY rush time around there. Stressed out. Need a day off. -call in a hoax. Why not a popular one. Maybe it will be believable?

rosey red - 12/20/2012 1:42 PM
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Lee- one of the few times I am going to agree with you. Sounds made up to me. You have to watch those people from Indiana, I know, I am one of them!

LifesKarma - 12/20/2012 1:27 PM
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I wonder why they were there or what they said to the employees when they got there.

Lee62 - 12/20/2012 11:08 AM
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What's worse; real masked gunmen coming into a post office, or workers making up the story to get attention? Nobody wins.

Economystic - 12/20/2012 9:40 AM
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DEspite it being postal employees I am glad nobody was hurt. I have reservations that any wrongdoing occured withoutmore details. And don't all post offices have videocameras nowadays? Show me the tape.

Gunney - 12/20/2012 8:34 AM
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If someone comes in to a place masked and waving guns, get to the safest place you know about; "unless" you are properly armed, prepared to take the shot, and proficient enough to shoot first, and shoot best...IMHO they did the right thing under the circumstances....ps: make sure it is not just an umbrella....
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