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Man Smashes Liquor, Wine Bottles
The Columbus Dispatch ^ | December 18, 2001 | Matthew Marx

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.


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To: StoneColdGOP
For punishment, they should put the guy in the stocks....in South Boston... or better.....Belfast.
41 posted on 12/18/2001 1:20:40 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
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To: OnSafariInBlueZone
isn't that alcohol abuse?

LOL

43 posted on 12/18/2001 1:21:18 PM PST by Lazamataz
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To: one_particular_harbour
(wracked by uncontrollable sobbing)

It's against that guys religion to sob, too. *WHACK*

45 posted on 12/18/2001 1:22:03 PM PST by Lazamataz
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To: Bella_Bru
:-(

Time for some sad Sinatra tunes about drinking again....

47 posted on 12/18/2001 1:22:36 PM PST by StoneColdGOP
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To: buccaneer81
I'm gonna cry.

Now I know how cat lovers feel when we joke on threads about cat tragedy.

49 posted on 12/18/2001 1:24:05 PM PST by dead
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To: Central Scrutiniser;StoneColdGOP
Yes, we should.

Stone, would you like to read a passage from the Book of Frank to comfort us all?

50 posted on 12/18/2001 1:24:10 PM PST by Bella_Bru
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To: Cool Guy
Shame to see a natural resource being wasted like this ... Bump CG!
52 posted on 12/18/2001 1:24:36 PM PST by 2Trievers
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To: buccaneer81
More than $50,000 worth of wine and liquor was destroyed, police estimated.

Well, I guess he's got good taste, he didn't go for the cheap stuff...

53 posted on 12/18/2001 1:26:01 PM PST by Doomonyou
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To: one_particular_harbour
Please, let it know it is loved......In times like these, we need to let our alcohol know we care.
55 posted on 12/18/2001 1:27:55 PM PST by Bella_Bru
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To: riley1992
Me, I congratulate the man. What a blow to the immoral industry of alcohol!! We should all be so brave. We must save Americans from themselves. We must not allow people to be able to buy such filth!!!!!!

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!!!!

57 posted on 12/18/2001 1:29:49 PM PST by Texaggie79
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To: one_particular_harbour
I'm too broken up to speak...writing check now to Kendall Jackson for the December 17th fund.

I'm willing to donate blood to help...God knows my blood is 98% wine at any given moment of the day.

58 posted on 12/18/2001 1:31:30 PM PST by ReaganGirl
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To: one_particular_harbour; Central Scrutiniser; Bella_Bru; StoneColdGOP
I think I may have to log-off for a while. It is just getting too hard to type through all these tears. And, I'm thirtsy as hell now.
59 posted on 12/18/2001 1:31:34 PM PST by riley1992
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To: Dan from Michigan
Oh I have a feeling he'll be regretting his crimes against humanity REAL fast...
60 posted on 12/18/2001 1:32:05 PM PST by StoneColdGOP
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