BARTENDER SHOT FOR USING CLAMATO INSTEAD OF TOMATO JUICE

A Hamilton, Montana, bartender was shot in the ribs and his dog gunned down after a customer got angry about being served Clamato instead of tomato juice in his red beer. Suspect Monte Hanson, 59, went to the downtown bar where Joseph Lewis, his 29-year-old neighbor, was bartending last Friday night. Hanson asked for a red beer – but freaked out when it was served with Clamato, saying that the concoction went against his Jewish religion. Hanson went home and told another neighbor he “had the right to kill Lewis” over the incident. He was told to “sleep it off, as he was drunk,” according to a police report. When Lewis returned home after work at 2 a.m. and took his dog outside, he was allegedly ambushed by a gun-wielding Hanson. The bartender’s pet pit bull dog, was fatally shot. Lewis himself was wounded after being struck in the ribs. Hanson was arrested and charged with attempted deliberate homicide and animal cruelty.
* It sure didn’t taste like tomato juice.
* All this, and he could have had a V-8.
* By the way, here is the recipe for a red beer: 1 glass lager; 2 oz tomato juice. Vomit bucket optional.
* Wow, the guy didn’t just snap. He actually went home and thought this plan through?
* Wait, it’s a religious thing so we have to give him a pass, right?
* If you didn’t like the service, can’t you just fill out a negative comment card?
* How is drinking clam juice against his religion but shooting someone isn’t?
* Meanwhile the dog was thinking, “Don’t shoot me. I didn’t serve the damn drink.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Red beer – a thirst-quenching treat, or a crime against humanity?