“If this was written down in a script, they’d reject it ‘cause you wouldn’t believe it,” said Queen Anne’s County Commissioner Gene M. Ransom III, the grateful recipient of Duncan’s efforts.
According to witnesses, Ransom was enjoying his food when a bite got lodged in his throat. “All of a sudden, I couldn’t breathe,” Ransom said. “I was thinking it would get better, and it didn’t.”
One of about a dozen people at the table, Duncan jumped up, wrapped his arms around Ransom and thrust his fists into the commissioner’s gut three times, Ransom recalled. Out popped the offending chunk of chicken sandwich, and everyone at the table breathed a collective sigh of relief.
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