Man Smashes Liquor, Wine Bottles

The Columbus Dispatch ^ | December 18, 2001 | Matthew Marx

[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.

[buccaneer81]

Picture the scene in Animal House when John Belushi screams in horror when th bottle of Jack Daniels falls to the ground.

[proudofthesouth]

Yeh, well its against MY religion to have booze destroyed by some psycho!

[Cicero]

Don't tell me. He was naturalized just in time to vote for clinton in 1996.

[wienerdog.com]

Ol' Asad is a real genius, ain't he? Maybe he is one of those scary sleeper cells we have been hearing about. Allah Apcray!

[OnSafariInBlueZone]

isn't that alcohol abuse?

[Physicist]

Just doing his part in the drug war. I'll bet he howled gigantic curses against libertarians the whole time.

[dighton]

Profoundly disturbing contents. Go back. DO NOT READ.

[Uni-Poster]

First thing that popped in my mind was Steve Martin in "The Jerk"..

Cans!....He hates cans!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

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...

Islam is a religion of pieces?

[ikanakattara]

Let me guess ... given his name (Thahim), I'd say he was Muslim.

Nothing here a 12-gauge couldn't take care of.

[riley1992]

What kind of sick bastard would do this?

[Doctor Doom]

This should be a capital crime.

[jdub]

A teacher I had in high school told me that her father or grandfather (cant remember which) died of a heart attack while berating someone for purchasing liquor.

[jmp702]

He hates these cans!

[Bella_Bru]

Destroying innocent alcohol....ugh...makes me sick.

Honey, don't even look, you'll cry.

[wienerdog.com]

Perhaps, but for a nutty Muslim dude to pull this stunt now indicates there is something afoot that would scare the crap out of alcoholism. I guess he was celebrating the end of Ramadan like any good moon god monkey: let's break some &*^@.

[ArrogantBustard]

Has Carrie Nation come back from the dead?

[wienerdog.com]

Which brings up an ineteresting point: can you imagine what these doorknobs would be like if they drank too?

[Dan from Michigan]

That bastard, and I couldn't do a damn thing. I think I'm gonna cry.

[Cool Guy]

Tequila BUMP!