Arnie, what's with you San Diegoans and your pet fish?
Man Arrested For Hitting Girlfriend With Fish
SAN DIEGO, Calif., (Reuters) - Teach a man to fish and he will
eat for the rest of his life. Give Nicholas Vitalich a fish and he will hit his girlfriend with it, police here said Tuesday.
Vitalich, 24, was arrested Tuesday on charges of assault with a
deadly weapon after he allegedly beat his 21-year-old girlfriend
with a large tuna after an argument in a supermarket, San Diego
police spokesman Bill Robinson said.
Robinson told Reuters Vitalich was also charged with resisting
arrest because he fought with officers when they tried to apprehend him.
''The woman had left the store after the argument and was out in the parking lot when the male approached her and struck her with a
large tuna,'' Robinson said.
''When officers got there she had a cut above her eye, bruising on
her right arm and cuts on both legs, from where she was knocked to
the ground,'' Robinson added.
Robinson said witnesses told the officers that the Vitalich
''repeatedly hit her with this large fish.''
He said the fish was fresh, not frozen, but considered a deadly
weapon in the same way shoes or teeth can be weapons. Robinson
said Vitalich was arrested by officers a short distance from the
supermarket. |
