It's a Marten!

[genlock]

HOQUIAM, Wash. – 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.

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

KXRO reports he left the carcass behind.

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

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

A marten is a member of the weasel family.

[Scott Reppert]

Police later found the 33-year-old Hoquiam man arguing with his girlfriend at another location...

What they don't tell you is the fact that she was screaming, "Where's my weasel?", when the police arrived.

I mean "marten"...

[genlock]

There’s an update to the strange case of one Hoquiam man accused of assaulting another while wielding what the victim thought was a dead weasel.

The 33-year-old attacker told the victim the animal was a marten -- before punching him in the nose.

Now KXRO radio reports that police say the animal was neither a weasel nor a marten. It was a mink. So there, Mr. Know-it-all: