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Hot Springs Worker Pepper Sprayed After Being Robbed

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4)- A man with a gun robbed an employee at the Strawberry Park Hot Springs near Steamboat Springs.

The robber took hundreds of dollars from the ticket booth then pepper sprayed the employee and ripped the phone from the wall.

Bathers were too far away in the hot springs pools to notice what happened.

A shuttle driver noticed the worker was hurt 20 minutes later.

The Routt County Sheriff is investigating the incident.

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