# 2 Frat Boys koi-napped, killed, BBQed and ate Goldie, beloved pet of UC Santa Cruz **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 6, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000 "2003-06-06T03:47:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/21 "2003-06-06T09:18:45Z")
> [@](#): > > I have no wish to carp about this, but may the scales of justice weigh heavily against these criminals. I hope there is no catch to the judge’s penalty because these pond scum need to be fined more than just a fin! They have no sole. I trout they understand the kind of crab they are getting into. It gives me a haddock when I end up herring this kind off tail. But I’m not going to bust a seal, I’m making it a porpoise of mine to not take the bait and flex my mussels, cause the cods will take care of it. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/22 "2003-06-06T11:44:50Z")
Paging Kid Addotta, paging Mr. Kid Addotta… ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/23 "2003-06-06T11:51:22Z")
I’m sure the cops know who did this, they are probably letting them flounder around for a while, hoping they’ll turn themselves in. ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/24 "2003-06-06T12:00:49Z")
They probably did it just for the halibut. ---
**Author:** ![herman\_and\_bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f1d935/32.png) [@herman\_and\_bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herman_and_bill)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/25 "2003-06-06T12:13:00Z")
Carpe Carpio Marco Polo had introduced the Romans to the carp, having brought some back from China, along with firecrackers and rice cakes. For the Romans, “Seize the carp” meant to grab a fish for yourself now. Not to wait, not even to take time to cook it, but to eat of life and enjoy. For tomorrow you may die. We who are about to eat raw fish salute you. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/26 "2003-06-06T12:21:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weirddave \* > \*\*Paging Kid Addotta, paging Mr. Kid Addotta… \*\* I could be wrong, but I think it is Kip. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/27 "2003-06-06T12:34:33Z")
You could be right, actually. How’d I type a “d” there? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/28 "2003-06-06T12:49:27Z")
Kip Addotta, Kid Addotta…I don’t get it either way. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/29 "2003-06-06T14:27:48Z")
Fortunately, there is [someone](http://yoga.tripod.co.jp/flash/kikkomaso.swf) to avenge the death of poor Goldie the fish! ---
**Author:** ![Debaser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@Debaser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debaser)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/30 "2003-06-06T14:39:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mhendo \* > \*\*Frat boys are morons? > > In other news, Pope found to be Catholic, and bears reported to shit in woods. \*\* Yep, them frat boys sure are morons. Just like everone from the south is dumb and all italians are criminals. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/31 "2003-06-06T14:46:25Z")
Psst…[**Neurotik**](http://www.com-www.com/musiclyrics/addottakip-wetdream.html) ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/32 "2003-06-06T18:49:25Z")
But was the fish named Midas or Goldie? The reports conflict. And I hope these two are punished rightly. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/33 "2003-06-06T20:45:34Z")
I’m sitting within a couple hundred feet of that pond right now. When I heard about this, it made me want to cry. All my time at this college, the koi pond has been a place sit for a few moments and take a break from my busy life. I always thought it was pretty special that we could have such beautiful fish out in public and everyone always treated them well. The koi pond has always been a little special corner of campus. But now it is more of a blot. I can’t believe the fuckers ruined the koi pond for me, and so many others. ---
**Author:** ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/34 "2003-06-06T21:06:10Z")
I’ll grant you the theft, but not the cruelty. What is cruel about eating a fish? No doubt the guys are grade A assholes, but I don’t see any crulety to animals here, unless they tortured it or something. It was just a fish, a nice friendly fish, but just a fish. /puts on flame proof suit. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/35 "2003-06-06T21:43:41Z")
They _did_ whack it with a rake, **Rhum**. If’n ya don’t think that’s cruel, we can whack you with a rake a few times, too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/36 "2003-06-06T21:52:40Z")
No, I don’t think that is cruel, at least no more cruel than getting a hook through the jaw and then suffocated to death the way many fish die. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/37 "2003-06-06T22:13:22Z")
I think you sort of have to take it for granted that any animal living on campus is living under a suspended sentence. Although for this to have been a true frat stunt, they would have had to swallow Goldie whole and alive. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/38 "2003-06-07T01:50:27Z")
Flame proof suit won’t help you against radiation, Rhum. Here is some plutonium in your pants. Frat Life and Jackass don’t mix. And if it turns out MTV was complicit. They shouls be sued for a lot of money. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/39 "2003-06-07T02:25:13Z")
This is so bizarre. I can’t believe MTV filmed about fraternities at _Santa Cruz_. WTF? When I graduated from UCSC in 2000, there were 4 sororities and 6 fraternities. (I think 8 of these organizations were specifically for Asians, too. They seemed to be pretty much ethnic organizations wearing Greek letters. It all looked pretty pointless.) Those numbers may have changed, but I know that this hasn’t: there is no Greek housing on campus. Greek life is non-existant. _No one cares_ about fraternities or sororities. Being in the gamelan ensemble or playing intramural ultimate frisbee is _way_ cooler than being in a frat at UCSC. These guys are morons. No self-respecting Banana Slug would join a fraternity, and these guys prove it. I bet they’re College Eight students. (God, I hope this doesn’t double-post.) ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000/40 "2003-06-07T03:35:57Z")
For some reason I read the title and imagined **Goldie** to be a dog…I am actually kind of relieved that it was only a fish, although the guys are total morons for having done what they did. Still, at least Goldie wasn’t a dog… (my Cegep had two Corgi dog mascots - that must be where I got the idea from) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-frat-boys-koi-napped-killed-bbqed-and-ate-goldie-beloved-pet-of-uc-santa-cruz/180000.md?page=3)