Customer at Market in Springfield Cuts Off His Hand

The Washington Post ^ | Tuesday, July 25, 2006 | Karin Brulliard

[Maelstorm]

I was just checking and all I could find listed in Springfield is the

American Halal Meat Market,
7653 ENF Fullerton Road, Springfield, VA 22153
Phone: 703-451-9240

Want to see the parking lot?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7653+Fullerton+Rd,+Springfield,+VA+22153&ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=h&om=1&ll=38.742406,-77.20773&spn=0.000799,0.002637

[Hydroshock]

CLEAN UP ISLE 3!!!

[TChris]

This man is obviously a member of the Religion of Pieces.

* chuckle, snort *

[RSmithOpt]

Duct tape and a corn cob?

Hope this doesn't become a fad.

The ethanol being mandated into gasoline, the price of corn is already high enough!!

[reagan_fanatic]

I thought muslims cut heads off for allah?

[bwteim]

"Nice. I started my first pun thread..."

A hand and five fingers.... I can digit.

[CholeraJoe]

Well, that certainly explains this:

Police Find Hand in Jar at Home of Nude Dancer

[Gorzaloon]

*snort*

Just a Lovers' Quarrel!

[Rastus]

"The bad news is, dad's in a lot of pain. The good news is, I'll have the best hand turkey in the whole 3rd Grade this Thanksgiving!" exclaimed the man's teenaged son.

[bwteim]

"He said, 'I did this for Allah'"

Allah me, why not take allah me?

[fortunecookie]

Did it for Allah? Ewwwww, shudder. It is certainly strange.

I'm not an expert on Halal food, but I'm guessing this threw a wrench into the works - I mean, 'people' aren't exactly Halal are they? I hope they closed down for the day after that, at least the butcher...

[Constitution Day]

It could have been worse:

Man beheads himself in supermarket ("Clean Up! Aisle 6! Bring a mop!")

[Sax]

Was it possessed?

Ash's hand went bad, so he cut it off.

[Lady Jag]

[bwteim]

Your post is on the cutting edge.

BTW, will the the butcher still have a tendon-cy to leave his saw unarmed?

[Professional Engineer]

Duct tape will fix that.

[MinuteGal]

This is what happens when you eat too much goat meat. There's inevitably a billy to pay, and I'm not kidding.

Leni

[Myrddin]

Outside, another witness said, the man announced that he had used the meat saw to cut off his hand "for Allah."

Oh good. What is Allah doing with the severed hand now? I suspect it is rotting in a trash can somewhere.

[Don Carlos]

There it goes--cutting off the hand that feeds ya.

Umm, no. Actually the right hand is used to feed ones self. The left hand is used for (ahem) other functions, in the Islamic world.

[photovoltaic]

Or they offered the rest of the customers a limited, one-time only five finger discount. The other replies are better than I can come up with at the moment.