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Neighbors Beat Man After Wild ATV Ride With Child

POSTED: Monday, September 12, 2005

UPDATED: 11:36 am EDT September 12, 2005

A group of neighbors in a Seminole County, Fla., neighborhood captured and then beat a man who allegedly took a 5-year-old on a drunken ATV ride, according to police.

The Seminole County Sheriff's Office said a man crashed his ATV near state Road 46 and Upsala Road in Sanford, Fla., Sunday night.

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Witnesses said the man was allegedly driving the vehicle drunk with the child on board.

After the crash, several neighbors held the man and then beat him until police arrived.

The man was transported to the Seminole County Jail.

It is not known if any of the neighbors involved in the beating will be charged.

The child was not injured in the crash.

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