This week and last, the Winnipeg Sun has been abuzz with a story about a local car thief who was beaten by the driver of another car with which he collided. The thief was clobbered with a baseball bat, resulting in serious head injuries. The assailant did not know the car thief, nor did he know the thief had been involved in another hit-and-run accident only minutes before, or that he was a serial car thief, a drug dealer and a gang member.

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