Touch the Pizza, Go Straight to Hell

Perhaps some people just shouldn't become grocery checkers (h/t LGF):

The other day, I got a call from someone who said that an employee at the Target store downtown refused to run his bacon through a scanning machine. He was mighty upset, arguing that the cashier had “no right to work as a cashier at Target” if she wasn’t prepared to swipe his groceries.

But he was a little vague on the details, so I decided to check it out myself. At the Target store on E. Lake Street, a cashier wearing a burka looked uncomfortable when I showed up at the cash register with a frozen pepperoni pizza. She immediately called for help, and another employee rang up the pizza and placed it in the basket.

I asked her if it was because she was Muslim, and she nodded her head. “I can’t even touch it,” she said.

This didn't take place in some foreign Muslim land, but in Minneapolis. This is the same town where taxi drivers were refusing to pick up fares who had alcohol with them, and where the famous flying imams began their national outrage tour. They've got some big problems coming their way.