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Berkeley restaurant employees arrested after dispute over burritos
Oakland Tribune ^
| 2/25/9
| Doug Oakley
Posted on 02/25/2009 12:49:40 PM PST by SmithL
A man was unconscious at Highland Hospital on Tuesday evening after he was beaten with a tire iron and a metal pipe in a dispute over burritos at Juan's Place restaurant in west Berkeley, police said.
Berkeley Police spokeswoman Sgt. Mary Kusmiss said two Juan's Place employees were arrested for assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the 4:30 p.m. incident.
Police did not release the name of the victim or those suspected of beating him.
Kusmiss said the incident started when three men who had been drinking entered Juan's Place and inquired about free food, which they often received at the restaurant.
An argument followed and two of the three men brandished a knife and a belt. Two Juan's Place employees then chased the men and beat one of them in front of several witnesses, Kusmiss said.
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Food
KEYWORDS: bandits; berkeley; beserkeley; burritos
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Police detain suspects in the beating of a man outside Juan's Place restaurant in west Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, February 24, 2009. Two Juan's Place employees were arrested for assault with a deadly weapon after they beat the man with a metal pipe and a tire iron following a dispute over burritos, police said. The victim was unconscious at Highland Hospital in Oakland Tuesday evening. The victim and his two friends allegedly brandished a knife and belt before being beaten, police said.
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:49:40 PM PST
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
The owner should bail them out and promote them.
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:50:52 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: SmithL
A canoli...maybe. A burrito no way.
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:51:44 PM PST
by
duckman
(Jesus I trust in You. Mary take over)
To: SmithL
Sounds like a clean case of Justifiable Ass Kicking to me. Let ‘em go.
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:52:09 PM PST
by
randog
(Tap into America!)
To: SmithL
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:53:10 PM PST
by
nickcarraway
(Are the Good Times Really Over?)
To: SmithL
A mexican beating another mexican senseless over a burrito? ...in Berkeley?
Nothing to see here.
To: SmithL
Two Juan's Place employees then chased the men and beat one of them in front of several witnesses, Kusmiss said. Ah, the good old "No Free Burrito Beatdown".
You gotta love the classics.
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:54:29 PM PST
by
SIDENET
(I am just a monkey man, I'm glad you are a monkey woman, too.)
To: max americana
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:54:50 PM PST
by
SIDENET
(I am just a monkey man, I'm glad you are a monkey woman, too.)
To: SmithL
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:55:08 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
To: SmithL
inquired about free food, which they often received at the restaurant. So why were they getting free food? And as with any stray animal, keep putting out the free food and they come to demand it before too long.
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:55:24 PM PST
by
BuckyKat
To: SmithL
Sounds like this genius will be taking his burritos through a straw for a few weeks.
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:56:00 PM PST
by
San Jacinto
(gorebull warming -- the Socialists' Shortcut.)
To: duckman
leave the gun, take the canolis
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:57:49 PM PST
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: SmithL
Kusmiss said the incident started when three men who had been drinking entered Juan's Place and inquired about free food, which they often received at the restaurant. Another case of no good turn goes unpunished. The dumb asses just lost their free lunch.
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:59:21 PM PST
by
ontap
(Just another backstabbing conservative)
To: nickcarraway
Milano was a hit man on the Witness Protection Program. Should’ve stayed in NY with all that publicity.
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posted on
02/25/2009 12:59:49 PM PST
by
Safetgiver
(America: Taking Affirmative Action to the extreme.)
To: dfwgator
There was a story about a 30 inch burrito mistaken as a weapon at a scool in 2005.
![](http://photos6.flickr.com/11815659_64d3e395ef_m.jpg)
Of course a burrito is only dangerous after you eat it.
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posted on
02/25/2009 1:00:32 PM PST
by
dblshot
To: Safetgiver
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posted on
02/25/2009 1:03:35 PM PST
by
nickcarraway
(Are the Good Times Really Over?)
To: nickcarraway
Yes. I heard about this two(?) weeks ago and it went silent on the radio.
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posted on
02/25/2009 1:05:37 PM PST
by
Safetgiver
(America: Taking Affirmative Action to the extreme.)
To: SmithL
Have them rub this liberally over the wounds:
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posted on
02/25/2009 1:14:40 PM PST
by
paulycy
("I'd hate to think of what a group of caffeinated Freepers would do..." - democratic underground)
To: Safetgiver
Not smart. I guess you can take the boy out of the mafia, but not the mafia out of the boy.
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posted on
02/25/2009 1:15:42 PM PST
by
nickcarraway
(Are the Good Times Really Over?)
To: duckman
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posted on
02/25/2009 1:37:58 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
("Do you know the website number?" - VP Joe Biden)
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