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Queens Deli Customer Stabs Employees

2008_08_stab.jpgYesterday morning, at the Rockaway Deli & Grocery in Queens, a customer apparently lost it and stabbed two employees. According to WABC 7, Ortho Arnold is seen on a surveillance tape getting his change and then spitting in the cashier's face: "As other nervous customers start leaving the store, Arnold pulls the knife." The victims, the owner's son and cousin, were able to fight him off with broomsticks. The owner said Arnold is a regular customer, "He's a little crazy. I mean, he does sometimes some things that are not normal." Arnold, who faces assault charges, claimed the blood from the victims was his own and that he acted in self-defense.

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  • JMH

    "He's a little crazy. I mean, he does sometimes some things that are not normal."

    You don't say.

  • CR

    Rumor has it that Ortho has a twin sister named Gyno.

  • Spear_Chucker

    Why are these people so angry all the time?

  • JRod5417

    I would go apesh*t too if my name was Ortho.

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