PUNCHING KITTY: 2009 - 2013

Punching Kitty was a writing project for the city of St. Louis to have a little fun and try to get everyone to stop taking themselves so seriously…and hopefully highlight some critical issues along the way. Not everyone liked it (it turns out people don’t love being made fun of) but we converted a lot of people and I take pride that the site was truly well read. From the local media, to area police departments, Punching Kitty truly became a source for news and entertainment for St. Louis.

We had a lot of fun, but all good things need an ending and ours was on March 13th, 2013. When we closed up shop the news made local radio, TV, and even the front page of STLToday (The St. Louis Post Dispatch’s website) where we were the top story over a new pope being named. Wild stuff.

While we will no longer actively write, the site will stay up as an archive for St. Louis.

- The Editor

Uplands Park Cop Admits to Banging Craigslist Hookers

 Posted on July 30, 2010  |  The Editor

Leon Pullen, a 32 year old Uplands Park police officer invented something amazing! “I’m a cop right? Well maybe I can tell people to give me stuff in exchange for not arresting them! How has no one thought about this before?!” Officer Pullen isn’t all that bright. [Pullen] scoured online advertisements posted by the escorts, then pretended to be a customer, according to court documents and testimony at his plea hearing in federal court here. [Read More]
cops  leon pullen  rape  Uplands Park 

Nelly Surprise at Downtown Chuck Berry Concert

 Posted on July 30, 2010  |  The Editor

Glad to see Nelly is allowed to preform somewhere these days. Though by the time the show started it wasn’t much of a secret, Nelly’s “surprise” appearance in which he shared the stage with fellow native St. Louisan Chuck Berry at the Democratic Convention concert downtown last night sure geeked a lot of people up anyway. Hopefully the fancy dinner and dancing date we took the Democratic Party officials on where we pushed our boobs up and wore that dress that our mom thinks is slutty, but works every time if you know what I mean…we mean sex…will get the DNC to feel up our city’s thigh enough where we can photograph it and bribe them to hold their conference here and then they’ll figure, “What the hell? [Read More]
chuck berry  concert  democrats  dnc  nelly 

KSDK Hitches It’s Wagon to the Worst Football Team in NFL (Rams)

 Posted on July 29, 2010  |  The Editor

We know what you are thinking: “Gosh I wish there were more shows about football on, and specifically shows about the worst team in the league.” Well buddy, we have a surprise for you! KSDK-TV said Tuesday that it will launch a new, half-hour Sunday morning sports program in September as part of a new agreement with the St. Louis Rams. Tentatively titled “Rams Tailgate,” the magazine-type program will showcase the lives of Rams players and coaches both on and off the field, the television station said, and “go beyond the traditional X’s and O’s of typical football pregame programs. [Read More]
ksdk  rams  tv 

Branson, MO Officials Aren’t Comfortable With a Nelly Concert

 Posted on July 29, 2010  |  The Editor

Branson, MO: Progress, diversity, words we mean the opposite of. For the second time, officials for country music mecca Branson, MO have denied a proposed concert by rapper and St. Louis native, Nelly. Concert organizer Paul Dunn announced on July 4 that Nelly would perform as part of the reopening of the Grand Palace. But the city on July 9 denied a special event permit, citing concerns about parking, crowd control and noise. [Read More]
branson  concert  nelly 

Post Dispatch Steals Our Term With a Pretty Picture!

 Posted on July 29, 2010  |  The Editor

Excuse me, but what the f*ck is this shit?

“Poopstock?!” Oh man that’s clever! In fact it’s super freaking clever because we said, or “coined” it if you will, a full 4 days before this little drawing came out. (Here, here, here, here and here…oh and here) Mention? Credit? Nope.

Guess Kings of Leon aren’t the only ones that get shit on around here.

Screw this! We’re leaving! Some of this photo got in my mouth and now we’re done.

via …screw this. No more via’s for them!

One last thing, we made a drawing in response to this lovely little “Matson cartoon”. Click though the jump to see it.

[Read More]

cartoon  cartoons  dicks  post dispatch  stltoday 

Remember to Wash Your 7-Year-Olds Only on the Delicate Cycle

 Posted on July 28, 2010  |  The Editor

A Joplin, MO girl was tossing around a washing machine for 12 full minutes before her mother and the laundromat staff could get her out. Authorities said Chloe Crow and her sister tried to use a washing machine at a laundromat, but after putting their money in, the machine didn’t work. Chloe climbed inside the machine, thinking it was broken. …yup, that’s the move. Please remember to tell this girl that this is an appropriate way to check if things are working. [Read More]
kids  morons  washing machine 

Stadium Health Inspection Report: The St. Louis Blues Are Really Clean

 Posted on July 28, 2010  |  The Editor

The Blues Win Something! Hello? Hello?! They Won Something. No one cares? Ok, we might have been overselling it somewhat. They didn’t really win anything…but their stadium did! According to ESPN, out of the three major sporting venues in St. Louis, only the Blues’ home, the Scottrade Center, score perfect with no “critical violations”. The score is a percentage of vendors with health code violations out of the total vendors. [Read More]
blues  busch stadium  cardinals  edward jones dome  Health  health inspection  rams  scottrade center 

Kyle Turley Has the Last Word on Poopstock

 Posted on July 28, 2010  |  The Editor

Lets be honest, we’ve called Kings of Leon all kinds of fun things in the last few days after their now infamous pouting scene after getting pooped on made its way around the globe. Nothing too bad though, just light hearted jokes. 7/24 – They’re giant pussies. 7/24 – Jesus these guys are freaking retarded. 7/24 – Congratulations, you just outted yourself to even your most die-hard fans that you are no more “rock” than Hanna Montana. [Read More]
kings of leon  kyle turley  poopstock 

Video of Girls Screaming in Zac Efron’s Face in St. Louis (also something about Poopstock)

 Posted on July 27, 2010  |  The Editor

Found on YouTube: A video taken by someone that waited a very long time to get to the front of the Zac Efron line when he came into town for a showing of his movie Charlie St. Cloud at Ronnies in South County. You can hear screams of “I love your hair!” and “Don’t leave!” throughout the clip. Also, if you look closely, a pigeon tries to poop on Efron at one point but a beautiful bald eagle swoops by at the last second to kill the pigeon. [Read More]
poopstock  zac efron