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
Ed “You Punks Get Off My Lawn” Willis thinks so, as he stated in his Letter to the Editor:
We can improve the economy, benefit the environment, and save lives, all in one fell swoop. However, this change will require a great deal of courage and a strong sense of responsibility on the part of parents and lawmakers. We must take the car keys away from 16 year olds. The minimum age for a driver’s license should be 18.
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The RiverFrontTimes’ DailyRFT has Jeff Smith’s resignation letter, plus about 300 other posts about Jeff Smith.
JoeSportsFan.com has video of my personal favorite Busch Stadium beer vendor showing how the pros announce what they are selling!
Who loves the bad economy? Libraries of course!
Speaking of libraries, apparently you can masturbate in them! Who knew? Not me! I mean there are some computers that I think are pretty covered so I mean its wouldn’t be that big of a deal, but…look, I mean who’s to say what constitutes masturbating anyway?
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It pains us, it really does, but as the evidence mounts, we have no choice but to stamp long-time Cardinals pitching coach with the dreaded “pussy” label and last we checked there’s still no crying in baseball.
Lets quickly recount the ways…
Its one thing to get pissed a little when people rag on your son, its another thing when your son is a major leaguer, and its a whole different thing when your son is a poor major leaguer and is still up here only because he’s clearly given leeway that other players that aren’t related to the pitching coach get.
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Congratulations to St. Louis’ own full contact women’s football team on winning their league championship!
The St. Louis SLAM women’s full contact football team are now the champions of the Women’s Football Alliance for the first time in team history after a 21-14 victory over the West Michigan Mayhem last Saturday. The undefeated SLAM traveled to Pan Am Stadium in New Orleans, LA, for a championship game showdown with the undefeated Mayhem, and they returned home to St. Louis with the championship trophy on board. The SLAM finished a perfect 8-0 in the 2009 regular season and made their run to the championship with wins over Las Vegas, Jacksonville, and finally West Michigan.
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In 2003 the St. Louis police department raided the homes of several potential protestors of the World Agriculture Forum held in St. Louis that year. After six years worth of lawsuit, the hippies got the cops to settle and, like all bad little boys that do illegal searches do, write an apology letter:
The department sincerely regrets the grievances of plaintiffs arising from the department’s response to the May 2003 World Agriculture Forum including the extended detentions or damages of personal property of the plaintiffs. Infringement of civil liberties of the citizenry was not warranted by what may have transpired at protests in other cities. The department recognizes and values the importance of civil discourse
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A St. Louis area police officer pulled over a BMW for speeding the other day and when inspecting the car they found:
$54,200 bones.
Eight prepaid cell phones.
Several ID cards.
Six dozen Western Union reciepts.
17 midgets.
The driver claimed to have been working for an organization that had him buy a prepaid phone to get secret text message instructions on how and where to get cash to send out. Sadly he won’t tell the authorities where the money or the instructions came from, but I think we both know it was some kinda of awesome sounding group like “Red Claw” or “The Anarchy League” that has a secret island lair that the paid an ass-load of money to make look like a skull.
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You guys are planning on voting for us as St. Louis’ best blog right?
I mean look at all we’ve done for you! Remember that thing we got you that one time? What about that time you were so drunk and we helped you do that thing you couldn’t do? …and don’t think we forgot about helping you bury that dead you-know-what in the woods because you just had to try that one thing out on her when you were all whacked out on that stuff!
[Read More]According to a new report on the St. Louis economy, we won’t return to the pre-recession job availability level until 2014.
The region will have lost 64,700 jobs, or 4.7 percent of its pre-recession total, by the time the local economy turns around in five years, according to a forecast released Monday by IHS Global Insight.
“While most areas will begin increasing employment again in 2010, it will be tepid, with only 118 metros crossing the 1,000-job mark next year,” IHS said. “Solid gains will not return for the majority of the country until 2011.”
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A courthouse clerk in Pineville, MO was fired after lying to co-workers by saying she had cancer and then receiving roughly $10,000 in gifts.
Officials say 42-year-old Tammy Young told people she had been diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a malignant form of tumor, and had been undergoing treatment at three different hospitals.
But co-workers in the county prosecutor’s office became suspicious and her story began to unravel, leading to her firing in July.
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From newsday.com:
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will travel to St. Louis next week with the American Federation of Teachers president.
Spokesman Justin Hamilton on Friday confirmed the secretary’s visit. He said Duncan will visit three St. Louis elementary schools on Thursday and be joined by AFT president Randi Weingarten.
I pretty much picture the Secretary’s visit to some of St. Louis’ schools going down in super-cleaned school along a pre-designed path by rooms filled with all of the good students being taught by good teachers reading books St. Louis borrowed from Chicago for the day while the rest of the kids, horrible teachers packed in the basement guarding a bee in a glass jar.
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