It's a Marten, Not a Weasel

This distinction is critical, as one crime victim in the state of Washington recently learned:

Police say a man was carrying a dead weasel when he burst into a Hoquiam apartment and assaulted a man.

The victim asked, "Why are you carrying a weasel?" Police said the attacker said, "It's not a weasel, it's a marten," then punched him in the nose and fled.

This incident makes more sense once you learn an important fact: the assailant was actually looking for his girlfriend at the time.

Link -via Lowering the Bar | Photo of an actual weasel by Flickr user Cecil Sanders used under Creative Commons license

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Now it makes sense, Miss C. He was bringing his girlfriend a mink. That's sweet.

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Turns out that it was a mink.

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2011/06/neither_a_weasel_nor_a_marten_turns_out_hoquiam_assault_was_by_a_mink.html

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That picture looks much more like a stoat than a marten. I think someone's looking for a punch in the nose.

(ted - it's sarcasm)

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How does the fact that he was looking for his girlfriend bring sense to the story?