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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Was it Homer?
Dohhhh!
"If I had been an actual terrorist you would all be dead now"
"Throw ya hands in the air, and catch 'em like you just don't care..."
"Your daughter, she kicked my dog"
I hate when that happens. It takes forever to disinfect the place afterwards.
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?
Or call it desert calamari
Gotta hand it to him!
What w2ould the Budhist say? What is the sound of one hand clapping?
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
I've got a hankerin' for some ring finger.
Having a problem getting a hand on the words?
The man had a hankerin' for a hand sammich.
"Customer at Market in Springfield Cuts Off His Hand"
Actually, when allah said "give me a hand" he meant applause.
I've bought goat meat at that market.
For the last time.
A meat-saw circumcision,
doesn't say he choked it after all....;-)
They should have weighed it, wrapped it up and labeled it "Finger food"
I just can't seem to wrap my fingers around it...
It's just out of my grasp...
;-)
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