Remember this?
Man With Dead Weasel Accused of Assault
HOQUIAM, Wash. (AP) — Police say a man was carrying a dead weasel when he burst into an apartment and assaulted a man in Washington state.
The victim asked, “Why are you carrying a weasel?” Police said the attacker answered, “It’s not a weasel, it’s a marten,” then punched him in the nose and fled.
Well, now the Seattle Times reports…
HOQUIAM, Wash. — Here’s an update to the strange case of a man accused of assaulting another man in Hoquiam while holding a dead weasel. The attacker told the victim and police that the animal was a marten.
Now, Hoquiam Police Chief Jeff Myers tells KXRO the animal actually was a mink. He says martens haven’t been seen in the Grays Harbor area for 50 years.
Both minks and martens are members of the weasel family.
I still say one shouldn’t swan around calling any old member of the weasel family a “weasel.”
- FLICKR: QMNONIC
- Doesn’t care about any of this.
someday soon, Hoquiam, someday soon:
http://www.nps.gov/olym/naturescience/fi…
Good thing it wasn’t a mink he stole …
Mink Stoles can be very dangerous.
Hey, nice marmot.
and, plus…having an aquatic mammal within the….city….that ain’t legal either dude.
I don’t know that a small-town police chief is necessarily the local expert on the mustelidae. I have certainly seen both martens and fishers in the Olympic Mountains, and I don’t know why they’d have been extirpated from Grays Harbor County.
Excellent link, Max @1. I love those li’l guys and hope the reintroduction is a success.
Wake me when somebody attacks someone with a honey badger.
This post is absolutely perfect in every way. Of course, you can’t make this shit up, but I’m just sayin’: This hit every kind of humorous and geographical angle that I’m looking for in a SLOG post. Brilliant.
At least it wasn’t a Minke.
I read the original article, and then the update, when it first happened. In my mind, no matter what the men looked like, they will forever be played by Scott Thompson and Mark Foley. This is a Kids In The Hall skit if I ever saw one.
Hell, I’m just happy that SLOG is taking the lead in teaching people the various families in the order Carnivora. Maybe you guys can tackle Echinoderms next?
Eh, they’re all mustelids anyway, and hence they are sarcopterygians.
You should be relieved: minks are far more weasely-looking than martens.
And though I always welcome more “Big Lebowski” references, I think we all know marmots are in Order Rodentia, not Carnivora like Mustelids are.
I can’t help but imagine a scene where Police Chief Meyers was using this as an interrogation room technique and was just calling it a mink to get the perp riled up.