<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">An offhand joke about a customer's mom turned an ordinary visit to a Brooklyn convenience store into a bloody melee that left a teenager unconscious from a hammer blow to the head, his friend testified yesterday.
Joshua Bloomfield, 16, said he was just exchanging gibes with deli clerk Zack Kassim at Brownsville's Munchies grocery store on Apr. 13, 2008, when the older man took it a step too far.
"He said something about my mother," Bloomfield said in Brooklyn Supreme Court. "I said, 'How would you like it if I said something about your mother?' . . . he put his hands on me."
Bloomfield then admitted punching Kassim, but said he was just trying to back away after the clerk pulled out a knife.
That capped off the first day in the trial of the store owner, Salah Ahmed, 37, who's charged with taking a hammer to Bloomfield's friend Bunkless Bovian.
Ahmed's lawyer, Gary Conroy, told jurors in his opening statement that Ahmed acted reasonably for a man who believed his store was being robbed.
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