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COLOMBIA - BULLETPROOF TAILOR

Today in Colombia, VBS correspondent Ryan Duffy officially becomes our first employee to

take a bullet

for the team. And this is no incidental, glacing sort of hit, but a full-on gutshot, fired at him point-blank, by the very guy who designed the bulletproof parka he's wearing. After an experience like that in most parts of the world, you call it a day, but here it is evidently par for the course to round out a morning of near-death by going on a little field trip to the local burundanga tree with your

crazed drug-dealer

buddy. Go figure.