I'll have a corned beef on rye thinly sliced

I wish we had delis in South Texas.

Real ones like in NY.

Okay, but without the knife fights.

Wild Knife Fight At NYC Deli
Surveillance Video Shows Wounded Store Clerks Fend Off Enraged Customer With Long Sticks
Second Incident Of Gotham 'Vigilante Justice' In A Week
ReportingLou Young

QUEENS (CBS) ― A bizarre confrontation turned violent at a Rockaway Beach deli on Thursday. Surveillance video shows a customer who was a regular at the store pulling a knife on the employees after he was asked to leave. What happened next left two men injured and the suspect crying foul.

The bloody encounter brought back memories of a similar incident from July 24 when two bodega owners in Brooklyn fought off a bunch of alleged thieves with a machete and large carving knives.

The Queens stabbing suspect was quite the chatty one on his way into the 100th Precinct in handcuffs Thursday afternoon. "All I know is my wounds are deep," explained 29 year-old Arno Ortho. It was an odd comment for a guy who's accused of pulling a knife and slashing the two store employees. "It was only self-defense," he said Thursday. However, the surveillance video seems to tell a different story.

The two cameras running at the Rockaway Deli on Rockaway Beach Boulevard show an angry Orno shouting at the deli clerks shortly after making a purchase. He spits at the man behind the camera and then goes berserk, toppling a display counter and tossing merchandise into the air. As two employees with sticks try to herd him out the door, witnesses said the enraged assailant pulled a knife and began slashing and stabbing at them. One employee received 22 stitches in the forearm.

The store owner, Abdul Allahiben, said the other man is much more seriously injured. "He made a whole big hole over here," Allahiben said pointing to his own forehead. "He's still in Jamaica Hospital. He lost a lot of blood."

Neighbors along Rockaway Beach Boulevard said the Yemeni-born deli owner has been a fixture in the neighborhood for more than a decade. He and his employees, part of his extended family, work long hours and are well liked. "They're the nicest people in the world,"

Charlie Haley said upon learning of the attack. "I can't understand why anyone would want to hurt them." Gene Morizzo put it more succinctly. "They're family; part of the neighborhood family," he said. "It's a shame."

Residents also said they know the assailant pretty well. Some described him as perpetually angry, continually trolling the boulevard in search of marijuana to buy. He had just purchased rolling papers before attacking the store clerks.