China Daily, eat your heart out.
Full story here. Thanks to Glenna Hall. And congrats to the unbylined headline genius of the Seattle Times.
Plus, great dialogue from the story:
>>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.<<
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