article_snippet: Within a relatively short period of time the incident ended.
article_snippet: the defendant was outside for 18 seconds.
article_snippet: The whole thing lasted less than 18 seconds. '
article_snippet: the defendant returned back to the store to pay for the defendant shopping and was only absent from the queue for 24 seconds which reflects how fleeting the incident was.'
article_snippet: This was a chance encounter and his reaction to that situation was not thought by anyone to be serious and there was certainly no intention to cause serious harm and none was expected to be caused.'