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TIL in May 2007, a man was singing the song "My Way" during karaoke and was shot and killed as he sang. The security guard was complaining that the man's rendition was off-key, and when the victim refused to stop singing, the guard pulled out a .38-caliber pistol and shot the man dead.

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