Him again

Erin Alberty has an article in The Salt Lake Tribune about domestic abuse on a small scale:

Actor Gary Coleman was booked into the Utah County jail Sunday after police received reports of a "civil disturbance" at his Santaquin home. Jail records show he was booked on suspicion of domestic assault. However, Santaquin police wrote in a press statement that Coleman was arrested on a warrant alleging he failed to appear in court in a previous case.
A civil case against the "Diff'rent Strokes" star was dismissed on 12 January after a man reached a settlement with Coleman and his wife over allegations Coleman hit the man with a truck during a fight in a Payson bowling alley parking lot. Coleman pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from the incident and was ordered to pay a $100 fine.

Rico says the guy's obviously got some serious anger-management issues, but why doesn't his wife just beat the crap out of him and solve the problem? (Don't bother commenting; Rico is all too familiar with the battered-woman syndrome. If she could, she would.)