Produce Rage

Captain Ed, visiting the Southland for a few days (we should do lunch, Captain), points out a local story that I missed:

ORANGE - An argument between grocery store workers over how to stack produce turned violent Wednesday, ending with one of the workers stabbed and another arrested.

Among the piles of plantains and cucumbers at La Carreta Supermarket on Chapman Avenue, the two men stacking produce began bickering about the right way and the wrong way to do their job, police said. The argument became physical and the two men took it outside, throwing punches in the store's parking lot, said Orange police Sgt. Dan Adams.

That's when it got ugly. Abraham Marquez, 24, pulled out a steak knife, stabbed his co-worker in the arm, Adams said. Someone driving down the street saw the brawl and called police. Even with shoppers and workers in the store, it was the only call police received about the fight.

Marquez ran, leaving his injured co-worker in the parking lot, police said. Marquez was arrested at his home a few blocks away. He's being held at Orange County jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

I'm glad to say that the Albertson's store in Mission Viejo where I shop is produce-fight free. If it happens in the storage room, it stays in the storage room.