WHAT A HEEL!: A Bronx Tale
Mike Chor, owner of a Twin Donut franchise on Hunts Point Avenue in the South Bronx decided to jump-start traffic with a Grand Opening special menu that included chicken legs, wings, breasts and thighs to its menu and pricing the food 50 cents cheaper than the Kennedy Fried Chicken franchise next door. After sales fell 30 percent, the chicken store owner, Kabeer Ahmad, thought the sky was falling. So in the wee hours of the morning on New Year’s Day he punched a hole in the wall separating the two establishments using a hammer, then sprayed gasoline into the doughnut shop and tossed in a lit match. He confessed to the crime, claiming he had gone out drinking on New Year’s Eve and was plastered when he committed the arson. Ahmad pleaded not guilty to first-degree arson and reckless endangerment at his arraignment. Bronx Supreme Court Justice George Villegas set bail at $250,000 for Ahmad, who faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted.
Ahmad’s story sounds suspicious to The Stiletto - it’s s sin for Muslims to go near alcohol. Just ask the Somali cab drivers working the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.
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