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Brazil’s Recife residents use “evil doll” to scare off bandits and “bad guys”

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The photo of an "evil doll" protecting a street in the Afogados neighborhood of Recife, the capital of Pernambuco state, recently went viral on social networks. To deter criminals and reduce the number of robberies, residents placed the doll on a chair in the middle of Albatroz Street.

"Since there is little security in the neighborhood, we came up with the idea of doing something to deter the criminals who hang around the community. And it works. Some criminals came by, and when they saw the doll, they turned around," said Barbara Regina, one of the . . .

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