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

Guy Records Himself Flushing Each Toilet in SLU’s Ritter Hall

 Posted on August 3, 2012  |  The Editor

Close ups of the label, slow pans from the top to the bottom, long shots of him reaching over to flush and then waiting until it completes before walking over to the next stall to start the process all over again. No words. No edits. Just 2 minutes and 55 seconds of a guy, his camera, and his love for crappers. We present to you **“Bathroom Tour: Ritter Hall St. Louis University American Standard Toilets and Urinal” **in all of it’s weird internet glory: [Read More]
slu  st. louis university  toilets  Video  youtube 

Some Guy Got A Lot Hurt By a Little Train At the Transportation Museum

 Posted on August 3, 2012  |  The Editor

No museum puts you right in the middle of the subject matter like the St. Louis Museum of Transportation! Yesterday, they even had a real life train wreck! It’s all part of their “Summer of Horrible Transportation Stuff” program! An employee at the downtown [sic] transportation museum was injured after being struck by a miniature train on Thursday. Officials said the man was working on the train tracks at the Museum of Transportation in the 2900 block of Barrett Station when he was struck by a train that takes visitors on a tour of the grounds. [Read More]
transportation museum 

12 Year-Old Tased in South County Victoria’s Secret

 Posted on August 2, 2012  |  The Editor

A police officer tased a 12 year-old girl in the South County Mall’s Victoria’s Secret after coming in to arrest her mom for multiple unpaid traffic tickets. [Charlene Bratton] had just tried on some shorts and was about to buy them when she says a St. Louis County officer came looking for her. Bratton had warrants, she says, for numerous unresolved traffic tickets. “He said, put your hands behind your back. [Read More]
south county  taser 

City of Shrewsbury On the Lookout For Kissy Cop Impersonator

 Posted on August 1, 2012  |  The Editor

We were forwarded a “Public Awareness Bulletin” from the City of Shrewsbury last night, and while we have to imagine that vast majority of email you get being on this mailing list is horribly boring, this one was a keeper. A female motorist has reported that, on July 30, 2012 at approximately 9:00 P.M., she was traveling northbound on Shrewsbury Avenue from Weil Avenue when she noticed the following vehicle traveling behind her [flashing red and blue lights]. [Read More]
kissing  missouri  sextastic  shrewsbury 

One Ice Cream Truck, Two Robberies

 Posted on July 31, 2012  |  The Editor

An ice cream truck stopped outside the O’Fallon Place apartment complex in North City was the scene of two different robberies happening at the exact same time…and they both happened after the thugs had paid for their ice cream. 19 year-old Ronell Ross, handed his money to the ice cream truck driver’s 10 year-old son just moments before he busted inside, putting his gun against the head of the woman driver while her son plead for her life. [Read More]
ice cream  north city  robbery 

St. Louis’ Not-So-Missed Connections

 Posted on July 30, 2012  |  The Editor

Everyone knows and loves perusing Craigslist’s Missed Connections section, and while we don’t like to make a habit of it, we’re no different. It’s amazing how entertaining it is to read people’s desperate attempts to get a hold of someone that they met in a chance connection like checking out at a Schnucks or grabbing a bite to eat at a local White Castle. It’s also amazing how many people don’t seem to fully understand the intent of “Missed Connections”. [Read More]
craigslist  missed connections 

Drunk Couple Arrested For Skinny Dipping

 Posted on July 27, 2012  |  The Editor

It’s Friday and we’ve got no energy for a setup. Talk to us Mr. Blockquote! A couple in Belleville had a little too much summer fun when they decided to swim completely naked in their neighbor’s pool. The two were reportedly drunk at 11:30 a.m. when officers arrived in the 200 block of North Fourth Street. Well well! Now we’re talking! A little day time drunken skinny dip? What’s wrong with that officer? [Read More]
belleville  illinois  skinny dip 

BREAKING: Creepy-Looking Guy Does Something Totally Creepy

 Posted on July 27, 2012  |  The Editor

They say you shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover, but that’s more of a rule of thumb applied to plain-looking or even slightly worn covers, it doesn’t apply to book covers that show some creepy glassy-eyed weirdo rubbing familiar looking panties on his face and you’re not sure where his hands are. You’re not buying that book. It’s ok to judge that one because it’s so obviously gross, just being caught lingering while you look at it might get you put on some government list. [Read More]

Even the Cops Don’t Want to Walk the Streets of St. Louis

 Posted on July 26, 2012  |  The Editor

St. Louis used to be the kind of place where some people would complain about how the streets were unsafe, but the government and the police would claim it’s not that bad, tell us how they’re working really hard, and show us all how it’s getting better. That day is gone. Even the police, people who wear armor and have been trained to carry weapons, have decided they’d rather just not be out there. [Read More]
batman  police  violence