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Worker Stabbed Inside Agriculture Department
Washington Post ^ | 12/07/04 | AP/Brett Zongker

Posted on 12/07/2004 12:32:28 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

A worker was stabbed Tuesday inside a Department of Agriculture building during an altercation with another employee, authorities said.

The victim was hospitalized with injuries that weren't life-threatening, and the search continued for the attacker. Marc Raimondi with the Department of Homeland Security said the Federal Protective Service was investigating. The wounded man was taken to George Washington University Hospital with several injuries.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: agriculturedept; stabbing; usda
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1 posted on 12/07/2004 12:32:28 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Man, office politics is getting brutal.


2 posted on 12/07/2004 12:33:18 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ('Hate' is just a special kind of Love we give to people who suck.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

"The worker was stabbed with a broccoli spear." : )


3 posted on 12/07/2004 12:33:51 PM PST by Bluegrass Conservative
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Man, office politics is getting brutal.

"That promotion to Sales was mine, Johnson! MINE, damn you -- !" :)

4 posted on 12/07/2004 12:34:31 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Probably a former Post Office employee.


5 posted on 12/07/2004 12:35:53 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

LOL...


6 posted on 12/07/2004 12:36:47 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ('Hate' is just a special kind of Love we give to people who suck.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Somebody musta stole another's copy of Farm Bureau Today magazine.


7 posted on 12/07/2004 12:38:06 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Well I imagine that the problem had been germinating for some time. Hope they get to the root of it.


8 posted on 12/07/2004 12:38:55 PM PST by CasearianDaoist
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To: CasearianDaoist

I'm sure it stemmed from something deep. It just took time to blossom...


9 posted on 12/07/2004 12:39:32 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ('Hate' is just a special kind of Love we give to people who suck.)
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To: Bluegrass Conservative; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

"Step BACK I said! I have a kumquat and I KNOW how to use it!!"


10 posted on 12/07/2004 12:40:01 PM PST by TheBigB (I sure could go for a charbroiled hamburger sammich and some french fried potatoes!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

He went Farmal?
He went Agral?
Departmental?
Bureacral?


11 posted on 12/07/2004 12:40:16 PM PST by Lee'sGhost (Crom!)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Sound like a case of sour grapes to me.


12 posted on 12/07/2004 12:41:10 PM PST by CasearianDaoist
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To: CasearianDaoist

It is just this kind of dirt that soils the good name of the employees at USDA.


13 posted on 12/07/2004 12:41:12 PM PST by chs68
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; Americanwolf
"Looking out they're going "Agrio" in D.C. All of your vegetables are belonging to us.
14 posted on 12/07/2004 12:41:24 PM PST by Americanwolfsbrother (Democratic Underground: Home of the Mental Midget Society)
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To: TheBigB

"You said you'd tell us about pointed sticks...!" :)

15 posted on 12/07/2004 12:42:10 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
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To: chs68

Well the apple does not fall very far from the tree, dontchaknow?


16 posted on 12/07/2004 12:42:20 PM PST by CasearianDaoist
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

The agriculture department? His farmer must have retired.


17 posted on 12/07/2004 12:42:59 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

I've never been stabbed in the Agriculture Department. Bet that hurts like heck though.


18 posted on 12/07/2004 12:43:46 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (I'm a monthly donor and all I get is this stupid tagline.)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

Something is rotten in the Agriculture Department.


19 posted on 12/07/2004 12:44:04 PM PST by frithguild (Withdraw from the 1967 Treaty on the Exploration an Use of Outer Space - Establish Private Property)
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To: CasearianDaoist

I'm sure there is a grain of truth to that.


20 posted on 12/07/2004 12:44:31 PM PST by Chad Fairbanks ('Hate' is just a special kind of Love we give to people who suck.)
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