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Teen fires blanks at Queen during London pageant
A 17 year old Marcus Sarjeant fired six blank rounds from about ten feet as Queen Elizabeth II rode through central London in a royal procession. The queen was startled but unharmed and continued the event, while Scotland Yard charged the youth under the Treason Act.
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