No, its a martin...

Man With Dead Weasel Accused Of Hoquiam Assault
Posted: 11:43 am PDT June 8, 2011
Updated: 11:49 am PDT June 8, 2011

HOQUIAM, Wash. -- Police say a man was carrying a dead weasel when he burst into a Hoquiam apartment and assaulted a man.

The victim asked, "Why are you carrying a weasel?" Police said the attacker said, "It's not a weasel, it's a martin," then punched him in the nose and fled.

The attacker was apparently looking for his girlfriend and had gone to her former boyfriend's apartment Monday night where the victim was a guest.

KXRO reports he left carcass behind.

Police later found the suspect arguing with his girlfriend at another location and arrested the 33-year-old Hoquiam man after a fight.

He said he had found the martin dead near Hoquiam, but police don't know why he carried it with him.

A martin is a member of the weasel family.

brilliant

Only in Grays Harbor County people carry around dead weasal's,Well maybe Enumscratch.Good luck,
SZ

Damn it Strike Zone, "IT'S NOT A WEASEL! IT'S A MARTIN!"

I don't condemn violence, but if there is any good reason to punch someone in the nose. That is surely it.

Bizarre. Kinda cool to learn that we have martins in the area, though. I did not know that.

Pine Marten to be more specific...

'bout sums it up for me.

That's hysterical in a White Trash Tweekerville kinda way.

Like something off Reno 911.

I'm glad I'm not alone in finding this funny.

weasel just sounds beter.
Whos gona say I think I'll go over to my old ladies place to see if she can breath some life into my sleepin martin

SZ, if this were Enumclaw, that weasel - er, martin, would actually have been in his pants!

Do you, or don't you? condone? condemn?

This sentence is a mind breaker.

Good catch. I could go either way on violence.

My Favorite Martin.

"not all that common here in WA"

There was a time when two Martin lunches were the norm.

We had the martin's little cousin the ermine hanging out in our office disposing of mice and leaving skeletons.....pretty cool dude, wouldn't want meet him in a dark alley though

If youre going both ways with your weasel (or martin)....probably should not worry about condone or condemn and worry about a condom.

I wonder if a life preserver would have prevented a punch in the nose by a Martin toter?

I prefer my martin shaken, not jerked.

i thought the weasel's name was pauly

Hoquiam man acquitted in dead weasel assault

"It's not a weasel, it's a martin!"

MONTESANO, Wash. – A jury acquitted a Hoquiam man who was accused of breaking into a home and throwing a dead mink at another man during a confrontation that made weasel headlines across the country.

Defense lawyer Chris Crew said Monday the Grays Harbor County jury found 33-year-old Jobie J. Watkins of Hoquiam not guilty of burglary.

Crew said witnesses provided inconsistent accounts and the "prosecution failed to prove a link to the mink."

Watkins was accused of attacking his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend on June 6 in Hoquiam.

The Daily World of Aberdeen reports court records say Watkins admitted finding the dead mink along the road, but never explained why he carried the carcass.

The story spread partially because of Watkins' reported insistence that the dead animal was a somewhat rare marten.

I'll say.

That made my day today when I saw that. It was the article of the day at work.

We had a martin hanging out here for a while, but I'm pretty sure the neighbor killed it......
They are a pain in the butt to have around as they get into everything and kill tons of critters, but I don't kill the animals that live here. As far as I'm concerned that neighbor has no business outside the city. Let him go live where he can be without Nature.

Pretty sure it's a Federal offense to throw a dead person at a live martin.

No link to the mink, can't make a stink.

If the mink doesn't fit, you must acquit.

Leastwise, that's how I remember it from law school.

Fish on...

Todd

Could it have been a fisher?

It was a fatally fractured feral ferret...