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Customer at Market in Springfield Cuts Off His Hand
The Washington Post ^ | Tuesday, July 25, 2006 | Karin Brulliard

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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To: photovoltaic

Was it Homer?

Dohhhh!


41 posted on 07/25/2006 10:41:36 AM PDT by Rockitz (This isn't rocket science- Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: photovoltaic
I started my first pun thread...

And for your penance  you need to say the Lords Prayer , you know the one that goes... Deli-Liver  U.S. from the U.N....
42 posted on 07/25/2006 10:44:21 AM PDT by grjr21
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To: photovoltaic
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."

"If I had been an actual terrorist you would all be dead now"

43 posted on 07/25/2006 10:45:32 AM PDT by palmer (Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle)
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To: photovoltaic

"Throw ya hands in the air, and catch 'em like you just don't care..."


44 posted on 07/25/2006 10:46:37 AM PDT by RichInOC (...I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I just couldn't resist.)
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To: dfwgator; Delmont

"Your daughter, she kicked my dog"


45 posted on 07/25/2006 10:47:30 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Meep Meep)
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To: photovoltaic

I hate when that happens. It takes forever to disinfect the place afterwards.


46 posted on 07/25/2006 10:49:32 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: photovoltaic

That isn't what you're supposed to cut off for Allah. A meat-saw circumcision, now that would have been worth reading about. Plus you get a souvenir that you can shoot from a rubber band gun. Don't these guys think about this stuff in advance?


47 posted on 07/25/2006 10:56:41 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
A meat-saw circumcision, now that would have been worth reading about. Plus you get a souvenir that you can shoot from a rubber band gun.

Or call it desert calamari

48 posted on 07/25/2006 10:59:39 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: photovoltaic

Gotta hand it to him!


49 posted on 07/25/2006 11:13:25 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Democrats have never found a fight they couldn't run from...Ann Coulter)
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To: photovoltaic

What w2ould the Budhist say? What is the sound of one hand clapping?


50 posted on 07/25/2006 11:14:46 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Democrats have never found a fight they couldn't run from...Ann Coulter)
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To: photovoltaic

WILLIE AND THE HAND JIVE

Got a cool little chick named Rocking Millie.
He can walk and stroll and Susie Q
And do that crazy hand jive, too.

Mama, mama, look at Uncle Joe
Doing the hand jive with sister Flo.
Grandma gave baby sister a dime;
Said, "Do that hand jive one more time."

Hand jive, hand jive, hand jive,
Do that crazy jive.

Doctor and a lawyer and an Indian chief,
They all dig that crazy beat.
Way-Out Willie gave them all a treat
When he did that hand jive with his feet.

Chorus

Willie and Millie got married last fall.
They had a little Willie junior and that ain't all.
Well, the kids got crazy and it's plain to see,
Doing the hand jive on T.V.

Chorus


51 posted on 07/25/2006 11:16:13 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Rugged individualists of the world, unite!)
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To: Hegemony Cricket

I've got a hankerin' for some ring finger.


52 posted on 07/25/2006 11:25:20 AM PDT by Ieatfrijoles
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To: fortunecookie
"but I'm guessing this threw a wrench into the works -"

Having a problem getting a hand on the words?

53 posted on 07/25/2006 11:30:03 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: photovoltaic

The man had a hankerin' for a hand sammich.


54 posted on 07/25/2006 11:30:37 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: photovoltaic

55 posted on 07/25/2006 11:32:55 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: photovoltaic

"Customer at Market in Springfield Cuts Off His Hand"

Actually, when allah said "give me a hand" he meant applause.


56 posted on 07/25/2006 11:37:09 AM PDT by BadAndy ("Loud mouth internet Rambo")
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To: photovoltaic

I've bought goat meat at that market.

For the last time.


57 posted on 07/25/2006 11:37:23 AM PDT by ko_kyi
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To: Billthedrill
The man chatted on a cellphone as Asghar cut his chicken.

A meat-saw circumcision,

doesn't say he choked it after all....;-)

58 posted on 07/25/2006 11:43:45 AM PDT by Minnesoootan
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To: photovoltaic

They should have weighed it, wrapped it up and labeled it "Finger food"


59 posted on 07/25/2006 11:43:55 AM PDT by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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To: Lion Den Dan
Having a problem getting a hand on the words?

I just can't seem to wrap my fingers around it...

It's just out of my grasp...

;-)

60 posted on 07/25/2006 11:48:36 AM PDT by fortunecookie
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