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Woman Shops With Knife Protruding From Neck

 DARBY, Pa. (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania woman spent the better part of an hour 
shopping at a neighborhood grocery store
 without realizing that a passerby had stuck a knife into her neck, police 
said on Saturday.

 Darlene Jones, 62, set out from home on foot before 7 a.m. (1200 GMT) on 
Friday, when a running passerby slapped her on
 the back of the neck -- or so she thought. She kept on going, as if nothing 
had happened.

 Jones walked to the Acme supermarket in the nearby community of Yeadon, just 
outside Philadelphia, and bought a package
 of Oreo cookies and a newspaper before making the half-mile (1-km) return 
journey to her house.

 Only after she got home did her daughter notice the handle of a kitchen 
knife sticking out of her mother's neck. The daughter
 yanked out the blade, releasing a gush of blood, and quickly got her to the 
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where
 she was listed in fair condition on Saturday.

 ``Five or six people walked right past her without even noticing,'' Darby 
Police Chief Robert Smythe told the Philadelphia
 Inquirer, while describing the incident as a ''random, vicious attack.''

 Supermarket surveillance cameras later showed the woman strolling through 
the aisles of the store, past clerks and customers,
 with the knife handle clearly visible.

 Jones could not give police a description of her assailant, saying she did 
not even notice if it was a man or a woman.