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
Pam Maples, the managing editor of the Post Dispatch is out as of August 18, ending her three year stint in that position.
Oh and they say she is “resigning”, if you want to believe that.
We don’t.
Here’s why:
No one…I repeat…no one…puts out a press release or an announcement on a Friday evening unless they want people to never notice it.
The Post Dispatch is no refilling the position.
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We braved the blistering heat of Sunday and headed south to check out the Tomato Festival at St. Louis favorite Iron Barley. We missed the actual creation of the World’s Largest BLT, but that didn’t dampen our spirits as we took plenty of great photos and even put together a little video our the event which you can see right below.
Its hotter than balls out right now and will be tomorrow. Stay in the A/C and watch the 10 Cutest Cat Moments:
[Editor’s Note: Video switched out because I’m dumb. See comments.]
A Sunset Hills Burger King manager threw a mother and her six month old baby out of the restaurant because the baby didn’t have shoes on.
From Mahalo’s page on the subject:
Jennifer Frederich brought her baby daughter into the restaurant barefoot and ordered food. The manager told her, “you can order ‘to go’ but you’re going to have to leave if she doesn’t have shoes on, it’s against health code.” Frederich said “…She’s only 6 months old, she doesn’t walk. She’s not touching the ground.”
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The Rams have been bad horrible shittastic for way too long now, but people are feeling that the team is at least heading in the right direction starting this year. They got a new coach, beefed up their offensive line and put all the old guys on one of those busses that takes elderly people to Wal-Mart on Wednesdays.
Like most new coaches implement, the new Rams coach promised a tough training camp, and although we have just barely scratched the surface, we were wondering how it was going, so we turned to Steven Jackson, Rams running back’s Twitter account:
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Do you ever wish your local government would look each other in the eye at a meeting and decide to put the plot of a lame 80’s movie sequel in to motion? Well its your lucky day Fenton, because your town just emulated Police Academy 4!
From the press release:
The St. Louis County Police Department, West Count Precinct and City of Fenton Precinct will co-host a Citizen Police Academy at the Rockwood Band Meeting Room 1037 Majestic Drive, Fenton, Missouri 63026. The classes will be held on eight consecutive Thursdays, beginning on September 17, 2009, from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM, with graduation on November 5, 2009.
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Hey ladies of St. Louis! Do you ever feel like you need to dress up in weird outfits or nothing at all and go to a strange-looking man’s office so he can take pictures of you for free as long as he can keep some himself and maybe post them on his website? Well have I got the guy for you! …also, I’m very sorry your daddy didn’t love you.
We checked the Punching Kitty inbox last night and found this:
Welcome to the party Mayor Slay!
There’s some beers in the cooler, pull up a lawn chair and have yourself a read.
We will graciously accept any advisor role you would like to bestow on us.
Call me: 314-266-8477
A fire ravaged the house of Carole Buck, wife of the late Cardinals broadcaster Jack Buck, and mother to current broadcaster Joe Buck yesterday in Ladue. Though the cause is not known at this time, they do know that many of the family’s baseball collectables were damaged.
The fire clearly did a lot of damage as you can see from the photo above, but its confusing thing is that it was only rated as a two-alarm fire. We’ve had chili hotter than that! Maybe it was a crapy house.
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