Portland man gets probation after stabbing ex-girlfriend's pet fish

nickb492 · Oct 14, 2009

Strange story involving a man, a women, and a fish. Link includes a picture of the guy. Favorite line is "If she can't have me, then she can't have the fish."

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/portland_man_gets_probation_fo.html

A 27-year-old Southeast Portland man who beat his ex-girlfriend and then stabbed her pet fish and left it impaled in her apartment has been sentenced to two years of probation and a psychological evaluation.

An attorney for Donald Earl Fite III said he didn’t want to talk about the details of the assault, but that stabbing the fish was “a very low point” in his client’s life.

According to an affidavit filed with the court, Sarah Harris had broken up with Fite, but returned to her East Burnside Street apartment in Portland last July 25 to find Fite lying on her bed. Fite wanted to get back together, but Harris didn't.

When she told him she had plans that evening, Harris refused to let her leave the room she was in, the bathroom, according to the affidavit. She tried to push past him. He threw her against a wall. She again tried to leave, punching him in the nose to get by. He grabbed her by the hair and threw her against the bathtub – ripping out her hair extensions and causing her to hit her head.

She escaped and called 9-1-1 from a pay phone. When she returned with an officer, she discovered her fish, a brilliant purple betta named DeLorean, had been impaled on her wood floor. It still had a knife sticking through it.

Fite admitted to police that he killed the betta, saying, "If she can't have me, then she can't have the fish."
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aghast · Oct 14, 2009

Wanda: Aristotle was not Belgian, the principle of Buddhism is not "every man for himself", and the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.
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Egghead · Oct 14, 2009

LCII · Oct 14, 2009

Egghead said:

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thats the face of a fish murderer if I ever saw one

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