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
The O’Fallon MO police department have joined Twitter! In other news, the Fonz successfully landed his death-defying jump over the shark.
The OPD have squeezed out a total of four tweets, the first on August 19th, and have managed to scrape together a surprising 49 followers. @ofallonpolice themselves, are only following St. Louis’ Major Case Squad (@majorcasesquad)
As of this writing, they did not respond to our question via a Twitter reply:
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Tell me if you’ve heard this one: Two southeast Missouri guys are fighting over a girl. [Editor’s Note: I’m going to guess the girl’s name is Cheyenne, and prefers half-shirts.] At one point one of guys whips out a knife, but they managed to remove him from the house. Undeterred, the Knife Guy starts banging loudly on the windows which prompts Other Guy to come out and they begin to get in an old fashion brawl which ends with Knife Guy biting the freaking earlobe off Other Guy.
During a flight from Oakland, CA to St. Louis a man got a little frisky and decided to pull out his junk and show it to lady on the flight.
From Fox2Now.com (emphasis mine):
A Southwest Airlines flight headed to St. Louis was forced to make an emergency landing after a man stripped naked in mid-flight. Flight 947 originated in Oakland, California. About half an hour after take off, the airline says a man exposed himself to a female passenger, then hit her when she screamed.
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It was raining and homeless guy walking the St. Louis streets spies a nice empty and dry tank so he crawls in…gotcha!
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A homeless man is expecting recover after passing out in a tank that continued residue of a hazardous chemical.
[The Tank] had residue from a chemical called Toluene, which is used in paint and paint thinners.
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If you’ve been suffering from the Swine Flu in St. Louis, today is your day because our apparently one horse town is finally getting some sweet sweet Swine Flu vaccine action!
The first 100,000 batches of swine flu vaccine will be distributed in St. Louis County at the end of October, the county’s Health Director, Dr. Dolores Gunn, said Tuesday.
Gunn said emergency personnel and health care providers would get the first doses, followed by pregnant women and people under the age of 24. Any doses left from the original batch would then be distributed to the public at large.
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We told you! We knew Pam Maples wouldn’t be the last high-priced head in the basket below the Post Dispatch’s guillotine. Yesterday news broke that the deputy managing editor, Christy Bertelson is retiring. Yup, retiring. Read in to that what you may…
Bertelson has worked at the Post for 23 years, working her way up from reporter to her current post, and helping lead the PD through their best times.
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We’ve been hearing buzz about this for a while now, but the press release we got last night sealed the deal! Plus this film is pretty much 100% connected with St. Louis, so thats pretty cool. Well I guess we have to talk about this!
The winner of seven notable awards including, “Best Cinematography”, “Jury Award”, “Audience Choice Award” and “Best Dramatic Feature” has partnered with the Landmark and Wehrenberg Theatres in Saint Louis for the film’s initial national launch.
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Welcome to the new greatest thing on the internet…and it has to do with cats, so we can get away with posting it!
Our favorite shots…
Last Thursday we ran a story (with accompanying video) about a guy that refused to pull forward at the drive through and wait for his grub and thus demanded a refund. Things didn’t go well after that:
After waiting ten minutes I knocked on the drive-thru window and asked for the food or money back. No response. I pulled out of drive-thru, parked my car and entered McDonalds. I patiently waited at the front counter. After 2 minutes the manager addressed me, saying they would not serve the food or provide a refund and to talk to the police outside.
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One of the many job posting websites, Indeed.com, has compiled and posted a list of the top 50 cities based on the ratio of jobs to unemployed people.
We came in at #40.
Detroit was #50. …which makes another win for the Lou against D-Town!
According to the site, St. Louis is rocking a ratio of one job opening to every six unemployed people. For comparison sake, the #1 city was Washington D.C. with the exact opposite ratio of six job postings for every one unemployed little orange guy. Detroit came in dead last with only one job posting for a whopping 18 unemployed people!
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