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Subscribe to RSSA Wisconsin man charged with domestic abuse told police that a "ghost" had attacked his wife and was responsible for her injuries, according to a police report discovered by The Smoking Gun.
Michael West, 41, was arrested for battery, strangulation, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest.
Police found West's wife Rebecca crying and bleeding when they responded to a report of a domestic dispute on Jan. 15, at the West residence in Fond du Lac, Wis. Drops of blood stained her jersey and areas of the kitchen, according to the police report.
The woman told police her husband punched her repeatedly in the face and attempted to strangle her "to the point that [her] vision went black and [she] felt like she was going to pass out," the report said.
Police said West appeared intoxicated and was yelling and swearing at the two officers questioning him. The man claimed his wife had fallen several times, injuring her face and neck.
When asked specifically about the marks on the woman’s neck, West said, in slurred speech, "A ghost did it."
West resisted arrest, but was eventually handcuffed and taken into custody. His wife told police the fight was started over the impending foreclosure on their home.
West remains in police custody pending a preliminary hearing on Jan. 27, police told msnbc.com. The $1,000 cash bond set by the judge has not been paid.
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What a douche bag.
Yes he is. This guy needs a really good a&& kicking!
In prison, he can surely be visited by "ghosts" on a nightly bases.
Yea...his inner "Ghost".....
Ghosts named Bubba equipped with an Anal probe.
You mean she is getting away with self-mutilation by putting the rap on him?
A $1000 bond. Is that all? sounds like attempted murder.
Well at least he didn't claim the devil mad him do it...roflmao
I'm guessing his wife tripped over the coffee table and fell onto his fist repeatedly. Such a common thing to happen these days... /sarcasm
I can't believe the cops didn't buy that ghost story.....sounds logical and realistic to me.....happens all the time at our local haunted house
I suppose the 'ghost' is also responsible for their impending foreclosure...didn't keep up the payments?
First thing I thought of were the A hole ghosts from American Horror Story. This may be season 2 episode 1. I also was wondering if she had one of those fake pieces of cheese on her head since there was blood on her jersey. Packer rubes are always good for a laugh
I'm guessing this wasn't Casper !
Both the abuser and the ghost had to be members of the Party of No.
What a coward. First he beats a woman then owes it up to a ghost rather than taking the blame.
This is not a man. This is a lowlife scumbag with no respect for anyone. If you're going to lock him up, don't let him out. If he's done it once, he'll probably do it again.
I never realized ghosts could actually touch you. I always thought if i seen one i would try to scare it, but not anymore...
I was thinking the exact same thing, this was definitely not casper the friendly ghost, this was more like his friend punchy.
Amazingly...I can see some nitwit defense lawyer arguing this case in court !
Ghosts can't touch you? Amy, haven't you ever seen "Ghost" with Patrick Swayze? :)
Or Ghostbusters...
Oh, what a loser. At least man up if you beat your wife up. I mean blaming it on a ghost? So the ghost had incentive to put marks on his wife's neck while he was by coincidence drunk and being abusive? (eye roll)
Oh come on, we all know if a ghost beats someone up he doesn't do it while the husband is drunk...he does it while they're sleeping and beats him up too. I think that guy needs to learn some abusive ghost protocol before he takes that argument to court.
Maybe it was a drunken & abusive ghost...not all of them are 'Friendly' !
@tom8896 #26.3
So are you saying that Whoopie Goldberg beat up this guys wife? Cuz Patrick needed a medium to be able to do the 'touching'. Which still creeps me out when I think of that scene.
How about the movie The Entity?
In no way does that sound right~~~~~~~~~~~ How about "don't hit women".
After watching "Paranormal2" anythings possible ha ha
After watching a movie of fictionalized events "anything is possible?" The only thing that is possible is peoples' willingness to believe in nonsense. Might as well try to claim Santa Claus or a unicorn did this to her.
I dunno, Damien. Does Santa have a believable alibi?
DamienOujia you must have an incredible willingness to believe in nonsense considering the username you chose....... just saying.
Key phrase here. The wife had blood on her "jersey".
If youre gonna play football with a ghost, you better bring your A game.
The writer may be British. In the UK, a jersey is just a knit pullover.
for shore..........
Key phrase here. The wife had blood on her "jersey".
Slap the cuffs on that ghost!
Oh, wait, that won't work.
"A ghost did it."
Yeah right. And it will be an alien who sodomizes you in prison.
Dude, there aren't any aliens in prison. Sasquatch on the other hand...
OK, perhaps illegal alien ... Give him a Dirty Sanchez
Well played, Darrel. A+!
I agree, good 1 D. Dirty Sanchez, indeed!
Maybe he was the one possessed by a nasty ghost... who do you call? Ghostbusters!
Deceasism! Call Congress. Since they can't help the living much, maybe they can investigate discrimination against the dead. Stop deceasism now.
I could spout a sarcastic one-liner tying this to the hard right of the GOP, but I'll hold it in...it would be waaay to obvious a joke.
Hopefully this loser gets put away for a while...then again, he'll probably plead insanity and get a light sentence, as he has at least a 'ghost' of a chance. /s
All I can hope is that if a ghost did it he haunts him in prison. If it didn't I hope his cellmate tries the ghost defense if he happens to become possessed and beat him up.
The only "demon" here is in the bottom of his whiskey bottle.
A mean drunk spouts off as he's being arrested, and MSNBC thinks it's news? Must be a slow day for you guys.
I agree but here I am reading it and the comments! Must be a slow day for me too!
I think the plot for Paranormal Activity 4 just stepped up the plate.
As if we need another one of those.
It is mindboggling what people will try sometimes.
Another tale from the shallow end of the gene pool.
Somebody peed in his gene pool.
And forgot to put in the chlorine.
WOW! That's better than claiming "the devil made me do it."
Ladies and Gentlemen meet the president of douchebagistan
Bravo!
A real life episode of American Horror
How is it 'manning up' to admit that he hit a woman? A real man would never lay a hand on a woman like this weak-minded/willed imbecile did.
Even if she comes at you with a knife? I guess that's taking it like a man.
@thepunisher:
If she went at him with a knife and he was acting out of self defense, then that is different.
But here's the thing: this man was NOT acting out of self defense. He was a drunken whelp who took his anger out on an innocent woman and nearly KILLED her, THEN had the audacity to blame it on ghosts because he's afraid to assume responsibility for this heinous crime.
So what Jeppy said is appropriate for this article. A real man WOULD lay a hand on a woman if she was after his life, but this woman was not after his life, and this POS is not a real man.
I dunno about you, but I think it's a big step to take responsibility for anything you do and not blame it on a ghost/Satan/whatever.
I think he meant he should take responsibility for his actions.
A ghost, huh? I thought I had heard it all when people blamed possession on their acts of violence. Maybe he'll have this "ghost" exorcised from him in prison in the form of a beating.
I'm not sure that'll work - I understand you can beat the cr@p out of someone, beat the h377 out of them and even beat the devil out of them, but I'm not at all certain you can beat the spirits out of him - you just have to wait until kidneys and liver do their work :).
Once again...you can't fix stupid.
He doesn't have a ghost of a chance with that phantom excuse. It will come back to haunt him. I can think of no better apparition than the specter of him goblin some spook in the joint.
Ba-Zing! Too funny.
Wonder how long it will be before you are collapsed for that last innuendo . . .
.. at first they came for my neighbors Home and I said nothing..
You know, 'cuz a drunken deadbeat who blamed a ghost for his wife's black eyes and bloody nose has everything to do with the Nazis.
/sarc
Thank you for once again proving Godwin's Law.
Ive never heard of that law, pretty interesting if its at least as true as Murphy's Law (anything that can go wrong will go wrong).