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Teen finds Philadelphia cop's missing gun at amusement park
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 06/22/07
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OCEAN CITY ? Hours after an off-duty Philadelphia police officer reported losing a small gun he had in his pocket, a 17-year-old girl found it on an amusement park ride and fired it into a beach dune, thinking it was a toy.
No one was injured, and the girl and her family contacted police the next day, once they realized the gun was real.
The girl, whose identity was not released by police, found the .22-caliber revolver while visiting Gillian's Wonderland Pier on Wednesday. She inadvertently sat on the gun while climbing into the Slingshot ride at the amusement park.
Thinking the small gun was a toy, she put it in her pocket and later fired it into a sand dune, police Sgt. Dennis Jones said. Even then, she still thought it was a toy, brought it home and forgot about it until her mother mentioned news accounts of a search for the weapon on Thursday.
Amusement park owner Jay Gillian closed the popular facility for two hours Wednesday so city police could search it for the missing gun. Police said the gun resembled a toy, making its discovery by a child potentially disastrous.
"It's so small and tiny," Jones told The Press of Atlantic City for Friday's newspapers. "It's no bigger than a cap gun."
The gun was to be transferred by the Cape May County Prosecutor's Office and returned to the off-duty Philadelphia officer.
"We're ecstatic to get it back and that nobody was hurt," Jones said.
A previous tragedy had police especially worried that a child might find the gun.
In 1990, a 6-year-old girl was shot and killed accidentally by an 8-year-old playmate who found a revolver hidden under a porch here.
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