Pair accused of assault over Wii Christmas gift

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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – A couple accused of assaulting each other over an unappreciated Christmas gift have been ordered to stay away from each other. Randi Flornbi, 24, and Heath Flantdig, 26, were arrested on Christmas day. Police said the pair argued after Flantdig complained about getting a Wii game system from Flornbi instead of the remote control airplane he asked for. When Flornbi started to leave, Flantig allegedly grabbed her by the hair and she turned around and hit him,

In court Monday, Flornbi asked that the no-contact order be lifted, saying they just had a bad Christmas. But the judge denied the request, citing a little known New Hampshire law that prohibits anyone over the age of 12 to get in a fight over not getting toys for Christmas.

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Couple arrested in Christmas Day brawl over video game
Wii are the world
By Richard Weir  |   Saturday, December 27, 2008  |  http://www.bostonherald.com  |  Local Coverage

Woe is Wii.

A Portsmouth, N.H., couple yesterday blamed each other for their black and blue Christmas when they got into a violent fight - and arrested - after an argument over a gift of the popular Nintendo video game.

“This was the worst Christmas ever,” Randi Young, 24, said a day after she and her boyfriend, Heath Blom, 26, were both cuffed and carted off by cops on misdemeanor charges of “domestic-related” simple assault.

Police were called to South Street home where the couple lived with Blom’s grandparents at 1:55 p.m. Christmas day. Officers arrested the pair upon observing bruises on each of them.

Portsmouth police said tempers flared because the boyfriend was smarting over not getting the present he wished for. “Heath Blom wanted a remote-controlled airplane for Christmas, and not the Wii,” said Sgt. Kuffer Kaltenborn.

Blom, a flooring contractor, said the cops got it wrong, and that he had asked his grandparents to get him the $1,000 airplane for his birthday next April. “You can’t fly an RC plane in the snow,” he said.

But he admitted disparaging the Wii game to his grandma and angering his girlfriend, who accused him of being an ingrate.

Blom, still nursing a shiner from the fight, said she called him names “for not liking the Wii.”

“He said he hated it. It hurt her feelings,” remarked Young, who said her boyfriend “told his grandparents that he changed his mind” about waiting until his birthday and wanted them to buy him the pricey plane for Christmas. “When he didn’t get the plane, he got really upset. He acted like a 10-year-old kid,” she said.

One fight led to another and soon Young was packing her bags. Blom said he got angry when his girlfriend hid the Wii game. “I thought she was walking off with it.”

“He dragged me down two flights of stairs, by the hair,” Young said.

But Blom said, “I stood in the doorway trying to block her. She punched me in the eye. She punched me three times. I said ‘That’s it.’ And I pulled her hair.”

Ricky Young Sr., 52, said Blom and his daughter, who he said was left with a “knot on her head” and a swollen nose, “fight like little kids. . . But to fight on Christmas, of all days. That’s crazy.”

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