'Dead' man walking, morgue staff running.

October 08 2004 at 09:36AM

By Thobani Ngqulunga
Mortuary attendants in Durban were shocked this week when a man, who had been declared dead by paramedics and taken to a government mortuary, suddenly started breathing and woke up in front of them.
Gale Street Mortuary Unit Commander Thegran Moodley said: "The man had been involved in a car accident somewhere in the Umbumbulu area at the weekend. After the paramedics had certified him dead, my staff were called in to fetch the body."
After arriving at the mortuary the attendants had been preparing to label the body when the man had started breathing heavily and had woken up.
"The attendants ran away because they were shocked," said Moodley.
"We called the paramedics to come and attend to this person who had regained life. They took him to King Edward VIII Hospital for treatment."
Hospital staff confirmed on Thursday night that a man had been sent to the hospital from the Gale Street mortuary, but refused to give any details.
Moodley said the attendants were being treated for shock.

Mural Misspellings Cost California City Big Bucks.

POSTED: 1:25 pm EDT October 6, 2004

LIVERMORE, Calif. -- You wouldn't expect to see a lot of misspelled words when you enter a public library.
That's why a California city is paying thousands of dollars to an artist so she'll correct the words she misspelled on a giant mural in the entryway of the new main library.
Eleven of the 175 words and names are misspelled, including Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo and Einstein.
Artist Maria Alquilar was initially paid $40,000 for the mosaic. Now, the city will pay another $6,000 plus her travel expenses from Miami for her to correct the work.
Alquilar blames city leaders for not catching what she calls "oversights."

Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Waitress convinces drunk man to run full-speed into a wall- breaks neck- dies.

 FULL NEWS INDEX By STEVE KENNEDY

A WAITRESS could face life in jail after allegedly persuading a drunk to run headfirst into a wall.
Gerhard Renzl, 30, broke his neck and died in hospital, a court heard.
Lisa Biliamoria, 29, is said to have urged him to take part in a game of Touch Down copied from MTV show Jackass. The aim is to run as fast as possible at a wall.
Sozzled Renzl donned a helmet and ran from ten metres, instead of the usual two or three.
Brit Biliamoria denies manslaughter at her boyfriend’s Livehouse bar near Salzburg, Austria. The trial continues.

"Pizza rage" strikes again, as Chuck E. Cheese gets assaulted with slice of pizza

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MACON, Ga. -- A teenager dressed as pizza mascot Chuck E. Cheese was pelted with pizza and threatened with a beating by an angry parent who said the mascot wasn't paying enough attention to her child, police said.
Macon police reported that the 17-year-old female employee was dressed as the character - a gray cartoon-like rodent with large front teeth - when a 31-year-old Macon woman threw a piece of pizza at her Sunday afternoon.
The report stated that the mother then threatened to "whip" the girl when she changed out of costume.
No charges were filed in the incident, so the name of the mother and employee were not released by police.

DNA Study Finds Chihuahuas are Really Rodents... kind of obvious.

As part of an ambitious effort to identify genes that cause disease in dogs and humans, scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle analyzed DNA collected from 414 dogs representing 85 breeds, including some of the most popular. The findings have sent reverberations though the ranks of dog fanciers, who primp and preen their beloved companions for shows and take great pride in their pedigrees...
Among other findings, the analysis determined that the Chihuahua is actually a type of large rodent, selectively bred for centuries to resemble a canine.
"This is clearly going to raise some eyebrows in the Chihuahua world," said Peggy Wilson, president of the Chihuahua Club of America. "It goes against our belief system. People are pretty passionate about their dogs. There is going to be disbelief."
...
"Oh, heavens, if they make it official that Chihuahuas aren't dogs, it would make my day," said Miami condominium owner Frances LaCroix. "I would finally have grounds to make Elsie Tabernathy get rid of her wretched little yapping pack of – rodents, did you say they were? Oh, that would be marvelous."

Man attempts to ship himself in crate ... shippers leave crate on dock in 90-degree weather. Hilarity ensues.

May 18, 2004
FALL RIVER, Mass. -- A man trying to ship himself to Cape Verde in a crate would have died had police not found him, authorities said.
Jonathan Schempp, 22, was homeless and was trying to reach relatives in Cape Verde, police said.
Schempp had someone seal him in the crate and drop him off at the Atlantic Shipping Co. in Fall River on May 11. But someone called Somerville police four days later to tell them of Schempp's plan. Somerville police called Fall River police, who sent officers and a dog to the shipping company, Fall River police spokeswoman Lisa Ahaesy said.
The dog alerted officers to one crate. Police knocked on the container and heard a faint cry for help, Ahaesy said. Police opened the container and found Schempp inside with food, water and clothing.
"He was dehydrated and confused," she said.
"The crate he was in was not due to be shipped out until the end of the month and the transport would have been another 15 days to Cape Verde," she said. "Had the caller not contacted Somerville police, he would have died."
Schemmp was treated at a hospital for dehydration and arraigned on arrest warrants for minor motor vehicle violations. 

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Man's complaint is misdirected.

Published Tuesday
January 20, 2004

The customer isn't always right.
A man pulled up to the drive-through window of a Chinese restaurant in north Omaha on Thursday to complain about food he had ordered earlier... from a different restaurant.
The customer couldn't produce evidence of the maligned meal - he said he threw the food away. Then he became belligerent with the store owner, according to police reports.
The owner got fed up with the abuse. He handed the surly customer a cordless phone and told him to call the police.
The customer threw the phone at the restaurant owner's face, then pulled out a gun.
The owner ducked, and the man sped off.
- Lynn Safranek

Man admits stuffing shrimp into pants.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- A man pleaded guilty to retail theft for allegedly stuffing $73 worth of shrimp down his pants at a grocery store and then fleeing from the store without paying.
Johnny Rodriguez, 48, of Bethlehem Township, pleaded guilty Thursday in the case. Northampton County Judge F.P. Kimberly McFadden deferred sentencing.
According to court records, Rodriguez was in the Heights Market on Oct. 12 when a worker allegedly noticed that he had his pants undone and he was "sticking items down his pants."
The worker approached Rodriguez, who began removing bags of shrimp from his pants, but when ordered to stay where he was until police arrived, he fled, court records said. Authorities said he made off with four bags of shrimp.
Police said Rodriguez had been convicted of retail theft three times.

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Stray piece of meat lands chef in fryer

A restaurant chef in Germany is in trouble with the law after hurling a piece of meat at his wife that instead hit a female diner on the side of the head.
Police say the 38-year-old woman was enjoying a romantic dinner with her boyfriend at a restaurant in the western town of Bochum, when the raw slab of beef flew out the kitchen door.
The chef is now facing charges of causing bodily harm after the woman was treated for minor injuries to her ear.
Police say the chef was having an argument with his wife at the time and apparently wanted to show her he was the boss.

Streakers in restaurant watch as their car is stolen

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Three men who went streaking through a Denny's restaurant were chilled and chagrined when they spotted a thief drive off in their getaway car, their clothes inside.
Naked in the 20-degree weather, the three young men huddled behind cars in a parking lot until police arrived.
"I don't think they were hiding. I think they were just concealing themselves," police spokesman Dick Cottam said.
The three entered the restaurant before daybreak Wednesday, wearing only shoes and hats. They left their car running so they could make a quick escape.
But the streakers watched through the windows as a man who had been eating inside the restaurant drove off in their car.
No charges were brought against the streakers.
"I think it was just three kids who decided to fool around," Cottam said. He added: "We always tell people to not leave their car running."

Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Today's stupid bank robbery disguise brought to you by a man using a dish towel ...quite possibly, the worst disguise ever

November 21, 2003
 By KOMO Staff
 
TACOMA - I'm guessing he was out of plastic wrap.
Police are looking for a man who robbed a Wells Fargo Bank in the 5200 block of Pacific Avenue in Tacoma Wednesday afternoon.
Pierce County Sheriff's Spokesman Ed Troyer says the suspect entered the bank around 3:10 wearing a dish towel around his head and handed a note demanding cash. The man then left on foot and fled in to the south.
Now, most bank robbers try to disguise themselves. It's just that in most cases, they use something that actually covers their face. This one had a small dish towel wrapped around his head that basically concealed his forehead -- and nothing else.
The suspect is described as a white man, around 40 years old, 5 feet 10 inches, and weighing 180 pounds. Police say he's dirty, scruffy, and was wearing dark blue jeans, a blue t-shirt, a light blue jean jacket and brown cowboy boots. And, as luck would have it, you can see his full face from camera surveillance video (D'oh!)
Oh yeah, and don't forget about the dish towel.
Police are offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and charging of this suspect. Call 253-591-5959 if you have any information.

Think your job stinks? Try smelling people's farts to determine potentially critical medical symptoms

September 16, 2003 - Wireless Flash
Job As Flatus Odor Judge Really Stinks
NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Do you think your job stinks? You could be a Flatus Odor Judge.
That's just one of several of the Worst Jobs in Science according to the editors of "Popular Science" magazine, who just compiled the list for the latest issue.
Topping the chart for worst jobs are the odor judges at a Minneapolis gastroenterologist -- they're are paid to smell people's farts to determine potentially critical medical symptoms.
The second crappiest science job is being a Dysentery Stool-Sample Analyzer. That's a person who opens stool canisters and analyzes feces to test the effectiveness of the kit.
Meanwhile, the Barnyard Masturbator, a researcher who collects semen for insemination purposes, comes in third, beating out jobs like Prison Rape Researcher, Carcass Cleaner and Fish Counter.

Misguided teen brags to friends he can withstand blow to head with skateboard. "Friend" proves him wrong.

MARYLAND HEIGHTS
Challenge leads to teen's brain injury, police say.
A 15-year-old boy grasped his skateboard about 2:30 p.m. Saturday and whacked it into his forehead. See? he bragged to five young peers. Didn't hurt.
The boy, attending a family carnival at St. Blaise Church in Maryland Heights, then claimed he could withstand a blow from any one of them, too, police said Monday.
A 14-year-old accepted the challenge, officers said, grabbing the skateboard with two hands and bringing it down on top of his friend's head, cracking his skull.
The 15-year-old was in critical condition Monday at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur with a serious brain injury, said Maryland Heights police Detective Sgt. Joe Bovaconti.
The 14-year-old was in shock when police arrived, Bovaconti said. He was charged under the juvenile code with second-degree assault and held in the St. Louis County juvenile detention facility.
Police did not release the names of the children involved.
UK Reuters

Delivery guy gets wrong address, pumps 3000 liters of oil into someone's basement

Wed Jul 9,11:20 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German oil delivery man who got his addresses mixed up accidentally pumped 3,000 litres (5,280 pints) of heating oil straight into a house's basement, police in the western town of Marburg say.
 
The mishap happened when the man attached the pump to a disused pipe at the front of the house next to the one he was supposed to deliver to. He then pumped enough heating oil to fill around 30 bathtubs down the sawn-off pipe, completely flooding the owners' basement and ruining their belongings, before spotting his mistake and alerting police. "The house's front door is very close to that of the neighbour's, and the filler neck flap was just to the side of the door -- unfortunately it was defunct and belonged to the wrong house," Marburg police spokesman Martin Ahlich said on Wednesday. Fire services succeeded in pumping out 2,000 litres of the oily mess but a substantial amount got into the sewers and water authorities had to be called in to prevent environmental damage, police said. "The man said he'd been delivering oil for 15 years, but he didn't think he'd been there before," Ahlich said.
UK Reuters

Dog hit by car walks to the hospital, waits for assistance in the hallway

Injured dog finds way to hospital
By Associated Press, 7/9/2003
BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) It was canine intuition when an injured black Labrador retriever did a doggone good job of getting medical attention.
The dog, apparently struck by a car on July 4, found his way to Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital, hobbled through the sliding glass doors and waited for assistance in the hallway.
"It's the darndest thing," said Ted Weigel, marketing director at Beckley. "The dog limped in and laid down where people could see it. It seemed to know exactly where to go for help."
Hospital workers gave the dog water, called a veterinarian and offered to pay the bill.
"There's no way they were going to put an injured animal back on the street," Weigel said.
Dr. Roger Ward treated the animal, and the vet said the canine suffered road burns, scrapes and an infected wound on his leg.
The 7-year-old male dog has been a model patient, Ward said.
"He is incredibly calm and patient," Ward said. "He has a wonderful temperament. He's very gentle and he's been easy to treat."
Ward and hospital officials are searching for the dog's owner.

Woman in minivan looks down to see racoon stepping on the gas for her

Hitchhiking Raccoon Snarls Traffic

A hairier rush-hour in Minneapolis-St-Paul than usual. It happened yesterday because of a hitchhiking raccoon.
Susan Gallagher of Maplewood, Minnesota, had just dropped the kids off at day care and was on her way to work when something pushed her accelerator.
Gallagher checked the minivan's cruise control, but that wasn't it. Then she looked again at the gas pedal and saw a raccoon on top of her foot.
After Gallagher pulled over, some state troopers arrived and decided to remove the van for fear that releasing the raccoon might cause an accident.
As it was, the scene caused a traffic jam on Interstate 35-East.
Animal control took it away but Gallagher still wonders – who was that masked critter and how did it get in her van.
(© 2003 the Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Sock monkey makes fun of Burt Reynolds. Burt attacks monkey!
By DON O'BRIANT
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Clint Eastwood might perform with an ape (anybody remember "Every Which Way But Loose"?), but not Burt Reynolds.
The star of such made-in-Georgia hits as "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Deliverance" lunged at and choked Phineas J. Monkey, the simian puppet serving as co-emcee of Thursday night's full-house gala at the Fox Theatre's Egpytian Ballroom for the Atlanta Film Festival, which officially got under way Friday.
Reynolds, who was being honored along with film stars Parker Posey, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, took issue with the monkey's bantering with the event's other emcee, Sean Daniels, artistic director of Dad's Garage.
Daniels and his monkey (operated by local performer Lucky Yates) had been making jokes about the intelligence of such Hollywood mainstream talent as Brad Pitt and Keanu Reeves.
"Some day, Brad Pitt might want to make a movie in this town," Reynolds cautioned after he took over the microphone. Later, Yates (as the monkey) uttered a meek, "I love you" to Reynolds. The star then grabbed the puppet by the neck with both hands, grimaced and squeezed.
"This event means a lot to me," Reynolds told the crowd before unleashing a one-line review of the event's entertainment -- "You might want to take the high road next time."
He also lobbed verbal missiles at Daniels, who for nearly a half hour had to stand behind Reynolds as the actor commanded the stage and rebutted Daniels and Yates' earlier jokes. One involved Reynolds' "Cannonball Run" movies.
"I don't know about your last movie," Reynolds said, turning a cold eye toward Daniels. "But the 'Cannonball Run' movies made $100.4 million."
After the event, Reynolds said he wanted to clear the stage before his friends Davis and Dee were to be honored.
Daniels later apologized.
"The festival had wanted to lighten up the event and make it a little more casual," he said. "We didn't mean to upset Mr. Reynolds as much as we did. The fact that he tried to rip up a puppet's head, well, all I can say is -- when Burt Reynolds attacks you, that has to go on the résumé."
Daniels said he doubts he and the puppet will be asked back next year.
"The important thing is I want the Image Film and Video Center's film festival gala to be an event to remember," he said. "If we're the butt of the jokes, then that's fine."

Shark drags dog underwater, other dog races into water and kicks ass
Dog saves dog in Australian shark attack
Thu Mar 27,11:05 AM ET

PERTH, Australia (AFP) - A dog saved its kennel mate from a shark attack at a beach in Broome, the pearling port in Western Australia's far north, police said.
A shark more than two metres (6.5 ft) long attacked the first dog at Gantheaume Point, a spokesman said on Thursday.
He said a man walking along the beach with his fiance saw a shark drag one of their dogs -- swimming at the time -- under the murky water.
Their other dog, on the shore when the shark struck, raced into the water and attacked.
Both dogs emerged unscathed from the surf, police said.
Experts say many sharks roam the Indian Ocean near Broome, but attacks on people or domestic animals swimming at beaches are rare.

Man masturbating on a tram ordered over a loudspeaker to 'Please Stop masturbating!'

London - A German man caught masturbating on a tram was ordered -over a loudspeaker - to stop what he's doing.
The man was first spotted by a 19-year-old woman sat a few rows behind him on the tram in Ratingen, near Dusseldorf.
She told the driver who announced over the loudspeaker: "Please stop masturbating."
The man did so without saying anything before getting off the tram at the next stop.
The woman, who said she had been sexually harassed because of the incident, reported the man to the police who are now looking for witnesses.
- Ananova.com

Morocco offers US monkeys to detonate mine

From the International Desk
Published 3/24/2003 6:43 AM

RABAT, D.C., Morocco, March 24 (UPI) -- A Moroccan publication accused the government Monday of providing unusual assistance to U.S. troops fighting in Iraq by offering them 2,000 monkeys trained in detonating land mines.
The weekly al-Usbu' al-Siyassi reported that Morocco offered the U.S. forces a large number of monkeys, some from Morocco's Atlas Mountains and others imported, to use them for detonating land mines planted by the Iraqis.
The publication quoted a highly-informed source as saying, "that is not a scientific illusion but a well-known military tactic."

Copyright © 2001-2003 United Press International

Farmers Put Live Chickens in Wood Chippers. Hilarity Ensues.

Apr 14, 10:33 am ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two California poultry farmers who fed some 30,000 live chickens into wood chippers will not face criminal charges because they had permission from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, prosecutors said on Friday.
But a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States called the farmers "callous and barbaric" and disagreed with the decision not to prosecute them.
The farmers needed to destroy the chickens because they were "spent" -- or no longer able to produce eggs -- and could not make chicken soup out of them because the farms were under quarantine for the poultry virus Exotic Newcastle Disease, District Attorney's spokeswoman Gayle Stewart said.
Stewart said the men, who run a poultry farm near San Diego, asked a senior veterinarian with the Agriculture Department if they could employ the wood chippers and were given permission.
"Once they had permission we decided that they did not have any criminal intent," Stewart said.
Brothers Arie and Will Wilgenburg, who run Escondido-based Ward Poultry Farm, could not be reached for comment on Friday. Earlier, they told the San Diego Union Tribune newspaper that they were doing "what we thought we had to do" based on expert advice and stopped as soon as they learned otherwise.
Wayne Pacelle, a spokesman for the Humane Society, said that explanation was unacceptable.
"The act of feeding live chickens into a wood chipper is an extraordinarily callous and barbaric act and I can't imagine any person with a whit of common sense would use a wood chipper as a killing tool," he said. "No person with any experience in killing animals would sanction the use of this technique."
Pacelle said the District Attorney's decision not to prosecute the brothers rested on the "faulty assumption" that using wood chippers to kill chickens was an accepted practice.

Man tries to rob bank with finger-in-the-coat-pocket trick, tellers bust their gut laughing.

April 9, 2003, 1:29PM
Associated PressLITTLE ROCK - Would-be bank robber Julius Kearney couldn't get no respect, police said today.
They said that when he tried to rob a bank in the central Arkansas town of Pine Bluff on Monday, one teller started laughing and told him the bank was fresh out of cash, and that another teller made fun of him.
Both tellers also doubted that he had a gun in his pocket as he claimed.
Kearney, 23, allegedly entered a bank and told a teller to stuff a bag full of money. His other hand was allegedly thrust in his pocket to make it seem like he was carrying a gun, police said.
The first teller laughed at the robbery attempt and told Kearney the bank was out of money. Kearney then allegedly went to another teller a few feet away and tried the same method to rob the bank, police said.
This time, he was handed deposit slips as the teller told him that if he wanted to steal money, he had better first put some money in the bank, they said.
The tellers told police that Kearney then allegedly threw down his plastic bag in disgust and walked out of the bank. He was arrested a few minutes later about four blocks away after bank employees called police for help.
"Most everybody was happy. He wasn't," said Sgt. Bob Rawlinson of the Pine Bluff, Arkansas police.
Kearney was arrested on suspicion of attempted bank robbery and could face up to 10 years in jail if convicted.

7-11 clerk spends first shift alone drinking beer and stealing everything in sight

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Police were looking for a newly hired convenience store worker suspected of stealing more than $12,000 in cash and merchandise the first night he worked alone.
Andrew Mucci, 42, was hired to tend a 7-Eleven store about a half block from his home. Police said he cleaned out the store.
A manager found the store unattended at about 5 a.m. March 11. Missing were 1,938 packs of cigarettes, $1,200 worth of prepaid telephone calling cards, 643 lottery tickets, 15 cell phones and $1,500 in cash. "The whole caper is on videotape," said Detective Todd Renner. "His whole shift he spends drinking beer and gathering things to steal. It's unreal."

Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Woman chases kids around with dildo, hits one with it

NORRISTOWN -- A 35-year-old West Pottsgrove woman displayed an artificial penis, in a sexual nature, to three juveniles, chased them and hit one child on the head with it, according to court documents.
West Pottsgrove police initiated an investigation of Linda Schultz last October after a parent of one of the victims reported that Schultz acted improperly with two minors, a 7-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl, according to a criminal complaint.
Schultz, according to the arrest affidavit, allegedly placed an artificial penis through an opening in her shorts, portraying to have a penis, while in the company of the two children in a West Pottsgrove residence last June.
"The defendant went as far as to chase the children around with the dildo, hitting (the female child) on the head with it," West Pottsgrove Police Officer Steven James Ziegler wrote in the affidavit of probable cause.
The two victims confided in an adult about the incident in October, according to court records. Police said the children were traumatized by the alleged act and one of the victims repeatedly mimicked the conduct and had to receive counseling.
During the investigation, police also discovered a 15-year-old girl who told authorities Schultz threw an artificial penis at her and made a lewd comment to her while she was in Schultz’s company last year, according to the criminal complaint.
Under state law, by charging Schultz with corruption of minors, police alleged she corrupted the morals of three minors by "subjecting the victims, in a sexual nature, to an artificial penis."
By charging Schultz with open lewdness, police alleged she committed the lewd act of subjecting the victims to the artificial penis when she knew that the act would be observed by others who would be "affronted or alarmed" by the act.

Dad gets busted when daughter brings in crack to show-and-tell

CORALVILLE, IA-January 28, 2003 — Another case of a kid getting a parent in trouble, for bringing something in to school that wasn't exactly intended for show-and-tell.
In Iowa, a man is facing charges – after his ten-year-old daughter brought a rock of crack cocaine to school.
Police were called in after the girl showed a plastic bag containing the crack to the school's principal.
They say the girl told them she brought the rock from home, and that it belonged to her dad.
Police searched the home – and they say they found thousands of dollars in counterfeit bills – along with some empty plastic bags, a scale, and some white rocks that could be cocaine.
Court records show the girl's father has been arrested five times for drug violations.
(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Chinese restaurant worker chases another employee around restaurant with cleaver during dinner hour. No extra charge for floor show.
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By KAY MORAN, Staff Writer
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Thursday, February 27, 2003 -- AMHERST

An Amherst Chinese Food employee brandishing a cleaver reportedly chased another employee around the restaurant during the dinner hour Wednesday before four men tackled him.

Yu Long Zhang, 39, of 102 Mount Warner Road was later arrested and charged with assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, a kitchen cleaver.

The victim, whose name police did not release, was taken from the restaurant by Amherst Fire Department ambulance to Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, where he was treated for an ear laceration and released, police said. Zhang was taken after his arrest to Cooley Dickinson where he was treated for minor lacerations and released.

"I feel very bad about the incident," restaurant owner Tso-Cheng Chang said today.

He was not at the establishment during the incident but arrived later. He said Zhang was a temporary worker there, and that the restaurant remained open the rest of the evening.

Frederick Cheyette of Leverett said he had just walked into the restaurant at 6:30 p.m. when he saw the two employees run into the dining room, one chasing the other with a cleaver.

The man being chased tripped, "and the other guy put a sizable gash in his face with the cleaver," Cheyette said. "Then four guys grabbed him (Zhang)."

It wasn't clear whether the four men were diners or employees.

Zhang had fled and the victim was sitting in the kitchen when Officer Tina Knightly and other officers arrived. Police found the cleaver on the floor in the kitchen and located Zhang on a nearby sidewalk.

"Some of the customers were outside. About half were still eating in the dining room," Knightly said.

Since Zhang, the victim and most of the other workers don't speak English, police called in an officer from another town to translate, Knightly said. They determined that the two men had been arguing about whether to keep a back door to the outside open or closed.