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Subscribe to RSSA Florida woman was charged with domestic battery she used the antlers of a mounted deer head to beat up her ex-boyfriend, authorities say.
Chelsea Harrison armed herself with the deer head after her ex-boyfriend Terry Nowakowski broke down the door Tuesday to get into their Zephyrhills house, authorities told the Tampa Bay Times.
She "began striking him in the face and body with the ends of the antlers until she lost her grip dropping it to the floor," according to a story on tampabay.com, citing a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report. Nowakowski, 20, managed to flee and call for help, the website reported.
Read the original story on tampabay.com
The victim told authorities that he and Harrison, 23, were no longer a couple but have a 3-year-old daughter together and both own the home in Zephyrhills, according to tampabay.com.
The fight reportedly began when Nowakowski walked outside the home and called his new girlfriend "which he believes angered Chelsea," tampabay.com reported.
When he tried to get back into the house, he found the door locked. He claims she then punched him when he poked his head inside a window after removing a screen. At that point, he decided to break down the door and got hit with the antlers, the website said.
He reportedly suffered cuts and swelling in the attack.
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that can be considered assault with a deadly weapon!
You're right. And that would be crucial evidence in a custody battle.
I love it when the male hating femi-nazi domestic violence laws are turned on the female. I'm sure someone at N.O.W. is hard at work to try and save the females from themselves.
That will teach him not to stick his head in a window or call his new girlfriend at his ex-wifes house. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Was it Rudolph?
He's not married to her. He owns the house, or at least half of it. He lives there. Since he is single, he can have girl-friends.
It sounds like she doesn't want him, nor want anyone else to have him. SHE is the abuser.
No wife, it said girlfriend. and he has a right to enter his "home" according to the law. Keep in mind the nut job woman "thinks" he called a "girlfriend." Both made up execuses to defend herself of a crime. Put her in jail to 3 years, maybe she will reach adulthood.
Did you miss the part where he broke in the door? She's got a good case. Not saying she should have locked him out, but once he knocked down the door whe can argue self defense.
I don't know that you can argue self-defense if she punched him in the face for entering through a window before he knocked down the door.
ON a serious note....as long as we are doing the whole ?maybe? thing....
Maybe, because of her violent outbursts he has already removed anything that could conventionally be used as a weapon and she had to resort to antlers on the wall to fulfill her violent ambitions.
I guess this takes feeling horny to a whole new level!
ROFL!
The U.S. is so lucky to have Florida! Where else would we stick are retards?
"are" retards?? I take it you live in Florida then.
Nope just a type. Usually happens after reading to many Florida stories! Unfortunately Florida stories are like car accidents, as hard as you try you can't help looking!
You might want to take a break from the FL stories. They just caused more types.
She punched him in the face when he poked his head in the window that's when he decided to break down the door!
DUH! That's the logical next step! Everybody Knows that!
Sounds like she may having been afraid for her safety. Without knowing much about the event, it sounds like he deserved what he got. I don't care if he is a co-owner of the house or not. He can not threaten her safety. And there was a child on the scene. Good for her. (Again, without much of a back-story).
The big question - who shot the deer in the first place? Poetic justice if the boyfriend.
Wait? What? The ex-boyfriend poked his head through the window after breaking out the screen. He then broke down the locked door to a home he no longer lives in to get to the ex-girlfriend. She then (assume) protects herself with the deer antlers as he enters her home. But she is the one arrested?
I think we are missing some key details as to why he was not charged with breaking and entering and trespassing at the least. I could see her being charged if she chased him down the street and stabbed him, but from the story it sounds like self defense against an intruder to her home.
Wow: Where did you get THAT story. It's not the one I just read above.
They BOTH live there. They BOTH own the house. They BOTH are parents of the child.
The problem with the vine is folks make up their own versions of a story and others believe them.
The guy was not arrested because they both own the house together. If he had done what she did, he would have been charged with domestic violence.
Hey Tumble, are you trying to tell me we shouldn't believe everything we read on a vine? That's ludicrous, next you'll be telling me there is no Santa! You need to stop this insanity!
If my landlord tried to break down my door I would be pretty perturbed too. Just because he is part owner doesn't mean he can cut the screen and break down the door. If' she's been living there and he hasn't, he is still a guest and needs to act like one.
Got to admit Tumbleweed, the longer the thread the more they sound like the old "telephone" game we played as kids.
no where does it say that he lived there. Only that he owned part of the house.
It's called commen sence. If he didn't live there, he would have been aressted.
Arizona no where in the above story does it say the EX Boyfriend lived in the home. It says he is a joint owner; my husband and I were separated, he was a joint owner on the house but it was NOT his "home". He could not come and go as he pleased.
I tend to agree that this situation makes it sound like he may have been living in the home but it may be equally true that the legalities had not been worked out in court. The charge of domestic battery leads one to believe they do in deed live together however the situation leads one to also believe he was no longer living full time in the house.
Charged is not a conviction so we'll have to follow the news in order to see how it plays out.
JustaMom:
Men are often arrested for domestic violence even if they make the call and have obvious signs of being attacked. The VAWA logic behind that is the notion he's bleeding from the head because she was "protecting herself."
He must have lived at the house and she must have still been enraged when police arrived, otherwise it's unlikely she would have been arrested.
Oh my! Lets ban "assault" antlers! Sheesh! Let me get this stright, he broke down her door and she armed herself with whatever was handy, said antlers! She defended herself from an ex in her own home and she is the one arrested? Something doesn't sound kosher here! Red
They both lived there. It was also his house...She locked him out of THEIR HOUSE because she was angry.
Learn to read the whole story and then you can comment.
She assaulted him in HIS home.
She obviously still loves him. Her emotional reaction to being ignored by the arrogant idiot who, instead of doing everything in his power to make their relationship work again and take out the trash and help with the laundry, aggravates the daylight out of her by cooing on the phone with his new sweetheart was, to lock him outside. He got his just desert, and from now on, he will be happily taking out the trash for his new lovey-dovey. Another deadbeat Dad, a failure of a partner, another heart-broken woman. He will probably sue her in court, for the doctor's visit and bandages. She will have to pay, taking money out of the Christmas fund she wanted to use to buy toys for their child. And he will use the money to take out his new girlfriend to a nice diner, and a cruise in the Bahamas.
Just another version of the same ol' story. It is so easy to father a child, even an idiot can do it. But it takes a real man to raise one.
Hey MH, way to make this story all about you and your life experience!
Concerned....so what does this story have to do with "raising a child"? It was about two consenting adults who co-habitated....he stepped out of the house to make a phone call and she locked him out....then he decides to get back into the house anyway and tries through a window...she objects by hitting him in the face...not to be deterred he goes through the door....again an obvious escalation she takes the wall art off the wall and.....well there you go...man attacked by antler wielding roommate...
Concerned MH: Maybe the guy is trying to get away from a crazy woman. Maybe he's already witnessed her violence. Maybe the only reason he's still at the house is because he fears for his child's safety. Maybe he called the police because he considered the woman may turn the antlers against the child. Maybe he's fighting for custody right now.
I know that sounds politically incorrect, but American women do kill more of their own children than any other mothers in the industrialized world. So there's reason he may have been concerned for his child's well being.
@Concened MH: "Just another version of the same ol' story. It is so easy to father a child, even an idiot can do it. But it takes a real man to raise one."
That may be precisely the reason he's still living with an obviously violent woman. To protect his child. As the father, good luck if he tried to fight for custody. However now, with her assault charge, he will have a better chance.
@txmom: "...so what does this story have to do with "raising a child"?"
Everything.
RevSpinnaker....sorry should have included the entire quote...
So it is not the same old story of ex's...at least not the story we usually hear....the father was a part of the household where the child lived. There is no indication that the father was a bad person. There is no indication that the guy who got beat up was a bad father at all. The woman didn't seem to assault him for any aspect of parenting rather for having the good sense to walk outside of the house to make a call to his current girlfriend....how is that in anyway bad? It seems rather considerate to me that he would actually get up and seek privacy for this phone call.
I suppose that I can safely say it was bad parenting for the mother to go poking antlers at the father in front of the child....bad, bad mommy. She should be teaching the child that you could put an eye out with one of those things....and that it is wrong to blind daddy.
Perhaps instead of busting through the doors and windows, he should have walked away until she became calm. He enraged her further by trying to get in. I am not saying that anyone should allow violent behaviour, but if you know the other person is having a meltdown, get out of "antler range". They sound like trash, but even trash should be allowed to protect themselves.
(I'll say what I said on another post today.... Look Ma, NO GUN!!!)
Antlers don't kill. Scorned women with antlers kill. (A mental imagine that makes me laugh.)
He enraged his ex because he stepped outside to make a private call. She locked him out of his house because she was angry. She attacked him when he chose to re-enter the house....she was the one enraged why shouldn't she have stepped out to calm down and come back when she was rational. Who knows if they would be considered trash, it seems that as young people they were attempting to live in a situation that served their child best.
She should have been the one to make the sound decision. All she would have had to do was say I need to step out please watch our daughter. Still bad mommy.
Door was locked...he should of cut his losses and gone home to his new girlfriend
Jeff: This IS his home.
He may have been worried about leaving his child with an enraged woman.
That's a comment I would have expected from some femi-nazi. Have the guy tuck tail and abandon HIS home and go live with a girlfriend. I don't think so.
does the term "dumb ass" appply here??
Sorry mary: The tide has turned. We are now finding out the ladies can also be abusive.
mary....probably...but for which one?
It sure took long enough. But with the women's prisons more than triple in population of what they were just 20 years ago, who'd have thought?
If someone is breaking down a door to get to you, what is coming is never good...I don't care who owns the house, a rational person does not break a door down, an abuser does .......
...or someone concerned for the physical well being of their child.
Rev, there is NO evidence of that thought process in the article. You are projecting.
Talk about taking a bull (deer) by the horns. Wonder if the dude felt like a deer in the headlights?
Let's see, the fellow is twenty, his child is three, that means he was seventeen when it was born and his girlfriend was twenty.
Well, she likes babies. LOL
A man would have been charged with statutory rape. Possibly sent to prison but would definitely have to register as a sex offender.
But wait, this happened in Florida. For all I know their age of consent is probably 15.
T.R.A.S.H.
A smart man would 1) not have called the new girlfriend in front of the old and 2) given the old girlfriend a chance to cool off after she hit him the first time. This guy is clearly not playing with a full deck or has absolutely no sense of self-preservation.
I am old-fashioned (okay, I am just old) but a lot of this nonsense could be avoided if folks would just stop running around making babies indiscriminately. Find the person you want to spend the rest of your life with and then raise a family - none of this baby-mama and baby-daddy nonsense. It isn't fair to bring a child into a mess like this.
SHE punched him in the face and HIT him with the antlers, and "HE'S not playing with a full deck"????????? RIIGGGHHHHHTTTTTTT!!!
ah betty: Did you miss the part where he went outside to make his call?
Betty: A smart man would never have gotten her pregnant to begin with. Then again, he was 17 and she was 20. He was barely a man and she was smart enough to know better.
Then again, she may have gotten just what she wanted only things diddn't work out as she planned.
You claim, "This guy is clearly not playing with a full deck or has absolutely no sense of self-preservation."
He may be more concerned about the "preservation" of his child in the hands of a loonatic.
The minute she started showing signs of abusive behavior towards him, he should have called the cops and let them deal with her.
She was just trying to help him get ahead.
And this is why when I mount a deer head, I do it with "nerf" antlers!
And Shoot the thing with soft rubber bullets. LOL
Mike you don't do it with nerf antlers because you're afraid of getting jabbed in the head and face.
You use nerf when you're mounting a deers head because you don't like getting jabbed in the stomach!
Is that a deer attacking that man?.... NOPE Chuck Testa
"Mess with the bull and you get the horns"
I bet you he said "PEEK-A-BOO"! when he poked his head in the window and it scared the crap out of her!
It was a natural reaction when she punched him in the face!
Would have been just bad form to say "here's Johnny"
Would have been funnier if he said "Watcha Dooing"!
and her reply: "Punching you in the face"!
That was a hardy laugh.....
I suppose it is just another cautionary tale....always keep your house keys in your pocket.
I heard this story this morning on 105.9 KZZK. I honest to God laughed when I heard that she punched him in the face for trying to break in through a window. Maybe he was trying to get to the kid...I don't know I wasn't there so I can't say for sure...
But the fact of the matter is, is that he should have kept a spare key or maybe a few lockpicks on his person to use on the back door. If she punched you in the face for trying to sneak in through the window, what the hell did you think she was going to do to you when you broke the door down genius?
I'm not saying her behavior is righteous; that could be the furthest from the truth. What I am trying to say is that he if he was that worried about the kid he had plenty of other options to choose from rather than the ones he did. Call the police, call your ex-girlfriend's parents if they're still nice to you and tell them about the situation, hell talk to your own parents about the situation and see if they can help. He didn't have to repeatedly try to break in. After he failed the first time, a light bulb should've went off over his head and this thought should have went through his head "This is not a good idea. Maybe I should try a different tactic."
Now because he broke in, he got mauled by a dead deer's head and is being treated for injuries.
Sounds to me like they both got out of control and neither was capable of behaving like an adult. I feel bad for the child who had to witness this violence and stupidity. Who's to say who the child would be better off with or what the guys intentions were when he broke down the door, and who's to say if she was defending herself or trying to kill the guy. Most of the comments are just angry speculation by other angry people basing their veiws on thier own messed-up relationships.
I'll bet his friends are getting a kick out of this story. Who wants to admit that his girlfriend beat him up with a stuffed animal? HAHA.