"If she can't have me, then she can't have the fish."

[Liberal_in_LA]

Oregon man get probation for stabbing ex's fish

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

A Portland man who attacked his ex-girlfriend and impaled her pet fish this summer has been sentenced to two years probation, a psychological evaluation and community service. Donald Earl Fite III, 27, pleaded guilty Tuesday to animal abuse and domestic violence assault.

According to court records, Sarah Harris had broken up with Fite but returned to her Portland apartment July 25 to find him lying on her bed, saying he wanted to get back together.

When Harris tried to leave, Fite shoved her against a wall, grabbed her hair and tossed her against a bathtub.

Harris fled but returned with an officer to find her fish — a bright purple betta named "DeLorean" — on the wood floor with a knife through it.

According to court records, Fite quickly admitted killing the fish, telling police: "If she can't have me, then she can't have the fish."

Fite's attorney, Tom Macnair, said Tuesday that killing the fish was a "very low point" in his client's life.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/10/13/national/a144550D00.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0TrdvhZCP

[Mojambo]

1. I laughed out loud at that bolded line.

I'm sure it wasn't a banner day for the fish either!

[ddeclue]

2. What's with all the fish murderers lately.. last week it was the girl who cooked her boyfriend's

gold fish.

:hide:

[surrealAmerican]

7. It's now officially a trend.

First the goldfish, now a betta, pretty soon we'll be seeing the sad demise of zebra danios.

[ddeclue]

9. NOOOOO!!!!!! I actually have zebra danias in my tank.

Run uh I mean swim fishy swim!

[Jackpine Radical]

3. In my many years of psychologically evaluating criminal offenders, this

is one of the few types I seem to have missed: A piscicidal maniac.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Won't someone please think of the guppies?

I mourn the loss of the poor (Mother/Father)-less state of the small fry.

[surrealAmerican]

8. Hey, he's a betta, if he ever met his fry ...

... he'd have eaten them.

[baldguy]

5. The fish wasn't called Wanda?

[deaniac21]

6. I wonder where that fish has gone.

You did love it so. You looked after it like a son.
And it went wherever I did go.
Is it in the cupboard?
Yes! Yes! No!…
Wouldn’t you like to know? It was a lovely little fish.
And it went wherever I did go.
It’s behind the sofa!
Where can that fish be?
It is a most elusive fish!
And it went wherever I did go.
Ooooh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish!
A-fish, a-fish, a-fish, a-fishy, ooooh.
Ooooh, fishy, fishy, fishy fish!
That went wherever I did go.

[Berry Cool]

10. OK, you've all had fun with this story, but if it were the woman's cat or dog

that had received this treatment, would everyone be laughing?

I think people would be calling him one sick fuck.

Combine that with the shoving, hair grabbing, and the mere fact that he showed up lying on her bed, as an ex-boyfriend who won't let go, and I think everyone would be horrified about this woman being stalked by an ex and say the guy needs to be kept far, far away from her.

But instead, because it's a fish, everyone is laughing and joking.

Hmm.

[MajorChode]

11. But, but, but, what if he had set off a case of hand grenades in an old folks home...

raped three nuns, ripped off the labels on his mattress, and burned down a church.

I bet people wouldn't be laughing then, either.

But he didn't.

Cheers!

[MountainLaurel]

12. No kidding

This is a pattern seen in most domestic violence cases -- injuring or killing the victim's pet. It's usually meant as a warning.

[Mari333]

13. poor fish. my fish think I am God.

I stand above my huge fish tank in the morning and say
"The Mighty One has come to send you manna from beyond! Come my little fish, and delight in the divine food I am sending down from Heaven!"
the fish all rush to the surface and wait for me to sprinkle their food, praising my name.

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. U have a sick relationship with your fish

:P