Posted on 07/25/2006 10:09:22 AM PDT by photovoltaic
Customer at Market in Springfield Cuts Off His Hand
By Karin Brulliard Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 25, 2006; B01
Igbal Asghar reached across the counter at Super Halal Meat market and passed two butchered chickens to the man with the familiar face. Then he ducked into the walk-in freezer to fetch the customer's second order, goat meat. When the butcher stepped out seconds later, the customer's severed left hand lay on the floor by the meat saw, Asghar said. The customer ran down the Springfield store's center aisle and into the front parking lot, leaving a trail of blood and yelling repeatedly that he was "not a terrorist." Outside, another witness said, the man announced that he had used the meat saw to cut off his hand "for Allah." Rescue workers arrived minutes after the incident Saturday evening and took the man -- and his detached hand -- to Inova Fairfax Hospital. "We are shaking still when we are talking about it." Nothing seemed amiss when the man approached the meat counter with his teenage son, Asghar said. The butcher said he recognized the man, whose name he did not know, as a fellow Pakistani. The man chatted on a cellphone as Asghar cut his chicken.
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The man was holding aloft his bleeding left arm -- sliced several inches above the wrist -- and using his right hand to hold up a photo identification badge that hung around his neck. "We thought it was fake," Sinsunwal said of the limb. Then they heard the man mumbling calmly but angrily in a mixture of English and Urdu about working in the area and his children attending school here. "He said, 'I did this for Allah' -- God," Sinsunwal said.
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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
CLEAN UP ISLE 3!!!
* chuckle, snort *
Hope this doesn't become a fad.
The ethanol being mandated into gasoline, the price of corn is already high enough!!
I thought muslims cut heads off for allah?
"Nice. I started my first pun thread..."
A hand and five fingers.... I can digit.
Just a Lovers' Quarrel!
"He said, 'I did this for Allah'"
Allah me, why not take allah me?
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...
Man beheads himself in supermarket ("Clean Up! Aisle 6! Bring a mop!")
Ash's hand went bad, so he cut it off.
Your post is on the cutting edge.
BTW, will the the butcher still have a tendon-cy to leave his saw unarmed?
Duct tape will fix that.
Leni
Oh good. What is Allah doing with the severed hand now? I suspect it is rotting in a trash can somewhere.
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.
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.
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