The hot dog incident is behind us-UPDATE

The Telegraph

By Ron Kampeas · March 30, 2009

If you've ever wondered what lands in a Jewish reporter's inbox (and if you have, you have less of a life than even I do), this is not untypical:

Cheskel's Shwarma King: An update and Final Clarification

Cheskel's Shwarma King located at 3715 13th Avenue in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn, the site of an unfortunate incident involving the sale of a non-kosher frankfurter is currently very busy. No longer answering questions about what transpired--that has been answered to the satisfaction of its supervising agency--Bais Din Tartikov but extremely busy trying to fulfill orders of everything ranging from Shwarma, fries and its trademark VIP Chulent.

"Unfortunate incident" involving a frankfurter?

No story unless we get photos.

And high-res.

UPDATE: All right, I asked for this. Thanks to an alert reader, I now know there was real drama involved here -- and yes, there is video! It involved workers picking up the wrong type of frankfurters, a heated exchange and ... an electric knife! Yes!

Here's the Jerusalem Post report.

And here's the CBS TV report

Best line: "I don't want to get killed for a hot dog."

FURTHER UPDATE: Thanks to Vosizneias we now have a timeline for the frankfurter incident.

The restaurant is now under 24-hour video surveillance.

I'm a little worried about the mysterious "person in the middle," however. Did he eat treif? Or not? He (or she?) has the liquid, ethereal quality of the grassy knoll...