Woman fried, ate goldfish amid fight with ex

[Liberal_in_LA]

Cops: Woman fried, ate goldfish amid fight with ex

Wednesday, September 30, 2009


(09-30) 06:13 PDT Pasadena, Texas (AP) --

Authorities say a Houston-area woman who was burned up at her former common-law husband fried their pet goldfish and ate some of them.

Pasadena police say it's a civil matter and no charges will be filed. The seven goldfish were purchased together by the couple during happier times.

Police spokesman Vance Mitchell says the man reported on Saturday that the woman took the goldfish from his apartment.

Mitchell says the two argued earlier about some jewelry the man had given her but took back. She wanted the jewelry returned.

Officers who were dispatched to the woman's home arrived to find four fried goldfish on a plate. The woman said she already ate the other three.


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[BlooInBloo]

1. Prediction: 0 outrage.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. they were pets!

[BlooInBloo]

5. (a) Fish don't have people-like mannerisms, and (b) The girl did it, not the boy.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. well, over in a fish newsgroup I use to frequent there would have been major outrage

[BlooInBloo]

7. That, I can accept.

:P

[Kalyke]

9. I'll be outraged.

People are just cruel.

We have Mickeys at work we all take care of. I'd be ticked if someone ever purposely hurt them. Cute little boogers.

[WildEyedLiberal]

13. I'll be outraged

A goldfish isn't as cute as a kitten but it's still an innocent animal. This shit's just wrong.

[armyowalgreens]

23. Not necessarily. They don't possess mental capacity anywhere near something like a dog or cat.

They do not suffer like other animals would suffer under similar circumstances.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

21. well it cant be 0 if you are outraged. nt

[BlooInBloo]

22. True.

[REP]

44. Wrong. It's horrible and cruel

Goldfish have been hybridized for thousands of years as pets. They've got personalities. They can also feel pain. I can't understand how someone can live with another creature and not feel some attachment.

Fish may not be cuddly like mammals, but they're still owed decent, kind treatment. (Which reminds me, it's time to give one of my fish his meds.)

[Hekate]

55. Ever heard of "feeder fish"? They're the cheap goldfish in the pet store...

... the ones that always need a "burial at sea" after a relatively short time in your kids' tank. Fa-Lush. Because they were never meant to be anything but some other aquarium-fish's meal.

Of course they're owed decent kind treatment. But even so, at least this woman didn't swallow them alive, which was the frat-boy fad in the 1930s.

Hekate

[HamdenRice]

2. Goldfish: It's the new Carp

Actually, they are closely related to carp, which is one of the main food fishes in Asia, so despite the creepiness factor, I'm sure she is OK and it probably tasted pretty good.

[Feron]

16. Depends on what the fish were treated with.

Just about every med and dechlor I've used specifically bars use for food fish. A treatment I used recently has formaldehyde in it.

Anyway it's the principle of the matter. Anger is not an excuse for torturing and killing animals.

[ddeclue]

3. Terrible but unfortunately NOT illegal - there are no laws against eating goldfish.

He could sue her though. I hope he does.

[armyowalgreens]

25. For eating a couple goldfish, you are suggesting that the man sue her?

And people wonder why we have assholes bitching about tort reform.

[ddeclue]

28. If they were pets - yes. Extreme emotional distress + actual cost of the fish.

Clearly this act was deliberately intended to inflict extreme emotional distress.

[armyowalgreens]

29. I will personally purchase the man 50 new goldfish and fedex them to him.

It costs 75 cents per gold fish. I've never met a person that grew emotionally attached to a gold fish.

If some crazy chick ate my goldfish, I would laugh and think she was crazy. I would not be depressed over the fact that I'm out 1.50.

[ddeclue]

35. If they weren't important to him, I doubt she would have gone to the trouble of eating them.

This is like breaking a guy's stereo or big screen TV, keying his car, tagging it with grafitti or wrecking it, sleeping w his best friend, running up a huge phone bill, burning his CD collection, taking his dog to the pound, etc., etc. a passive aggressive tactic designed to inflict emotional distress.

[armyowalgreens]

36. They are goldfish. That should be the end of the story.

If someone has a strong emotional attachment to goldfish, they need to get out more often.

You might as well have an emotional attachment to a pet rock.

She did not damage an exorbitant amount of property. She did not steal massive amounts of money. She ate a couple goldfish.

She is probably unstable. But this is not equal to sleeping with someones friend. That's just absurd.

[ddeclue]

39. You don't get to decide that - emotional distress is what she intended to cause and she knew what

was doing. That is sufficient.

[armyowalgreens]

42. How do you measure the strength of her intent?

You can't. You can only measure the wrongness of her actions.

[ddeclue]

43. That's for a jury to infer from the evidence.

I'd be willing to take it out on her bank account in a major way if I were on such a jury - I'd say $50,000 just to make a point.

(FYI: I have a 55 gallon aquarium full of fish and this kind of "bunny boiling" crap would really piss me off if I were the victim of it.)

[armyowalgreens]

45. Jesus christ. $50,000 dollars for eating two goldfish?

I'm pretty sure you'd get laughed out of court.

[ddeclue]

48. You'd be surprised. Don't eat someone's goldfish to piss them off.

[REP]

47. Go price some Pearlscales

If you find Pearlscale goldfish for .75 each, you let me know.

[armyowalgreens]

50. Wow. They are worth $5.00

This changes everything.

[REP]

51. Where?

And what kind?

[armyowalgreens]

58. Excuse me. 6.99 for 1-2. 5.99 for 3 or more.

http://www.petsolutions.com/default.aspx?ItemId=74540&EID=74540&SID=FROOGLE

[subcomhd]

8. I'm sure the supporters of the yonic matriarchy will defend her.

[Kalyke]

10. Defend her?

Hell no.

The story doesn't say - he may have well been a righteous asshole and abused her or cheated on her - but that doesn't give her the right to kill an innocent pet.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

31. yonic matriarchy? really?

[armyowalgreens]

37. I don't even know what that means.

[madmusic]

49. In gender studies

In cultural terms, phallocentrism is used to describe a male-centered doctrine or behavior, and sometimes refers to patriarchy, while gynocentrism is used to describe female-centered doctrine or behavior, and sometimes refers to matriarchy. Furthermore, the term yonic has often been used to describe something as vaginal and is considered the counterpart to the term phallic

http://en.allexperts.com/e/p/ph/phallus.htm

[GaYellowDawg]

11. Right - why be coy about anger when you can just eat koi?

What a psycho.:crazy:

[BlooInBloo]

15. You said koi!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naYVZs9Ymhc

[Bobbie Jo]

12. I misread your OP.

Woman fried. Ate goldfish....:smoke:

I kinda get that, but motivated by spite....not so much.

[dogday]

14. Her SO must of really loved those fish... She was out

to hurt him as much as possible...

I hope they don't have cats and dogs or other pets, and this crazy woman has eaten her last pet...

[rucky]

17. And I thought revenge was best served cold.

[timeforpeace]

18. And that's the way it is, Wednesday September 30 2009.

[edbermac]

19. Just waiting for PETA to go postal on this.

:nuke:

[Uncle Joe]

20. Nooooooo!!!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

24. i am not outraged as i eat fish atleast a few times a week, so cant pretend the fish death

is tragic

however its very awful to eat someones pet. takes someone supremely petty & vindictive to do that

[Uncle Joe]

27. I agree. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

26. He should have replaced the goldfish with piranhas.

[snooper2]

30. Everyone loves Goldfish! yummy

:rofl:

[cherokeeprogressive]

59. Love 'em with clam chowder. n/t

[triple point]

32. Fiddlesticks. When I was young we ate 'em raw.

:shrug: :silly:

[sofa king]

33. I, um, used to swallow goldfish in college.

Ask me anything.

[BlooInBloo]

46. I like your screen name.

[EmilyAnne]

34. What a mean woman. That's completely sick. She killed and ate their pets. I hope she is charged

with something or the guy sues her.
I don't care if it seems petty because they are just fish.
They were living creatures that this guy cared for.

[reflection]

38. Shades of Kevin Kline...

[TheKentuckian]

40. That's almost exactly what I was thinking!

Kkkkk...Ken.

[reflection]

41. coming... to k-k-k-kill me...

:spray:

[ShortnFiery]

52. Why am I having a flashback to the flick "War of the Roses?"

:scared:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ebv3i_9Ltc

[La Lioness Priyanka]

56. lol

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

53. I feel bad for the fish, but this is kind of funny...

[Butch350]

54. You gives a rats A**!

[Hekate]

57. "You won't give me the gold? Watch me eat your goldfish!!"

:spray: