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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LOL!
Or the alternative, they offered a 'special' on chicken to the unsuspecting. I hope no one is choking on their chicken dinner as they hear about the mishap at the butcher and the discount chicken they purchased shortly after... No puns intended. ;-)
(ok, some puns...)
Creepy! Yet another ROP alert.
Not entirely true. They use a "wash spout" that looks rather like a watering can;in Urdu it's called a "lota". (low-ta) That is followed up by paper, if paper is available. Muslims are VERY clean, it is part of the religion.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh thats Gotta hurt!
Groovy!
For the Moose limbs, the right hand is the one that feeds ya, the left hand is for 'cleaning'.
Ohmigosh! Neener, neener, neener! He's agonna be thrown out of allah devils now. He'll be wipin' his butt, eatin', and turnin' the pages of the a**-wipin' koran with the same hand. He's agonna go ta hell now for sure!
Now my dog need operation.
Maybe he's a fan of Season 3 of "24".
well I tried to cut off my big toe last week....does that count?
cla...cla....cla....sound of one hand clapping...
I'm going to sue you, you f*****g guy!
I going to call my lawyer, he is going to put you in jail, you STINK you phocking guy,ohhhhh I was just kidding, you tell your father I am going to call police and he go to jail and he stink, I not stink ,you think just cause I liberal demoguy I stink.
This has gotten out of hand.
Islam is a mental disorder.
I hate living down the treet from these people who stink I am going to call my lawyer at once, enough of this!!!
Maybe he did not intend this situation to be permanent, he was only trying to lend a hand.
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