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.
LOL
It's against that guys religion to sob, too. *WHACK*
Time for some sad Sinatra tunes about drinking again....
Now I know how cat lovers feel when we joke on threads about cat tragedy.
Stone, would you like to read a passage from the Book of Frank to comfort us all?
Well, I guess he's got good taste, he didn't go for the cheap stuff...
I say we do one better than this man. Let's break into peoples' houses and do the same to their liquor cabinets. I can't stand that people don't live the way I want them to live. They must all live as I do!!!!
I'm willing to donate blood to help...God knows my blood is 98% wine at any given moment of the day.
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