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Reputed underworld kingpin Pasquale “Fat Pat” Musitano appears to be the beneficiary of outsourcing.

Since gangland began contracting out its dirtiest and deadliest work to street gangs, numerous innocent bystanders have been cut down.

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And the hits on underworld overlords keep being botched.

On Monday, a 76-year-old longtime Musitano associate who acts as bodyguard and driver was injured in a head-on crash with a Mercedes in front of the mobster’s Hamilton home.

Cops believe the Musitano associate — or the crime lord himself — was marked for death.

“He’s not an important guy but he basically saved Pat from another incompetent hit team,” longtime underworld observer James Dubro told the Toronto Sun.

Detectives later arrested one 25-year-old Montreal man but released him when both parties got a case of ‘I for-Gotti.’ Two other men were also seen running away.

Recent underworld violence has had more flavouring from the street than the social clubs.

Dubro said a number of traditional organized crime clans have reached tentative alliances with street gangs.

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Musitano survived a hit attempt outside his lawyer’s Mississauga office in April. A triggerman parked four bullets into the underworld figure.

He was released from the hospital two weeks later and is expected to make a full recovery.

“Pat is a dead man walking – literally,” Dubro said, adding he should get out of the country pronto.

“He has some things out there in the street but Pat is a very marked man from all sides from rival ‘Ndrangheta groups (both the old and the new) to Hells Angels and now street gangs.”

But the triggermen’s incompetence is the silver lining in the Musitano family cloud.

“They’re literally ‘The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight’ (a classic crime book by Jimmy Breslin),” Dubro added.