Posted on 12/18/2001 12:55:32 PM PST by buccaneer81
Man smashes liquor, wine bottles
Tuesday, December 18, 2001
Matthew Marx
Dispatch Staff Reporter
A Northwest Side man wielding a golf club smashed thousands of dollars worth of wine and liquor at the Big Bear store at West 5th and Grandview avenues last night.
Asad K. Thahim, 24, of 1450 King Ave. Apt. 35, is accused of creating a panic at the store when he pushed the manager to the floor and began slashing glass bottles.
Thahim walked up to the service counter and said it was against his religion for wine to be consumed and that he was going to smash every bottle in the place, witnesses told Columbus police.
Thahim also took a swing at Andrew Raymond, second-shift store manager, who called police.
Raymond refused to comment last night.
Columbus police charged Thahim with one felony count each of vandalism and inducing panic and one misdemeanor count of assault.
More than $50,000 worth of wine and liquor was destroyed, police estimated.
Thahim was in Franklin County jail early this morning.
He will appear in Franklin County Municipal Court today on those charges and some outstanding warrants from separate criminal and traffic offenses. In one of those cases, he is charged with smashing one 40-ounce bottle of beer on the floor of the Speedway gas station at 1626 W. 5th Ave. on Nov. 30.
Of course they are.
Oh, and I'll occasionally have one of the Samuel Adams brews as well.. 8-)
Yep, one of those 180,000 pushed through by Al Gore.
I don't think any self respecting Clevelander would waste beer by throwing a bottle with anything in it at a referee. I believe they learn at a tender age the priorities are 1) drink, 2) throw. A Clevelander getting that backwards would probably be ejected from the game for excessive, unsportsmanlike conduct.
No sportsman would throw before drinking.
I don't die so easily.
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