by As reported by The Vancouver Sun, three men discharged bear repellant during a robbery of Apple’s Oakridge Centre retail store in Vancouver while the store was full of customers last night.
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Police say three men entered the store shortly before 7:00 PM last night while around 40 customers were in the store, discharging the spray and stealing “a small number of electronics [items]” before fleeing.
Five people were treated at the scene by paramedics for the effects of exposure to the spray. A police dog unit recovered some of the stolen items but the thieves have not yet been found.
It is not known whether there is a link to a robbery in January in the same city, where two men robbed a jewelry store at gunpoint before fleeing ‘in a cloud of bear spray’.
