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
Anheuser Busch Jumps in to the At Home Draft Market with St. Louis Exclusive
Posted on December 29, 2011
| The Editor
While we’re a little late to the party since it was released a couple of weeks ago to select stores in the St. Louis market, we thought we’d mention AB’s Draftmark system anyway because it’s pretty cool actually [Editor’s Note: AB supplied a Draftmark system for the Punching Kitty HQ to try out.] and this thing is tailor made for a New Years at home.
The idea is a lot like the Coors and Heineken home drafts, but your draft is reusable with currently three different refills available: Bass, Budweiser and Shock Top.
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The Inevitable 2011 Round Up
Posted on December 29, 2011
| The Editor
As we have done the last few years, it’s time for our round up of the “top” articles from this very site in 2011. In the past we have done this in two posts, one listing the top 10 “most popular” posts based on page views and “likes” and a second list of our personal favorite posts. This year’s going down a little differently however for two reasons:
As we close our our third year of existence, the stats for posts written in 2011 are getting harder to pull out from the older stories that still get significant traffic.
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Stolen Tow Truck Used to Rob Family Dollar Store
Posted on December 27, 2011
| The Editor
Apparently there is something in a Family Dollar store than has some value: The safe.
Thieves used a tow truck to yank a large safe from a Family Dollar store early Monday morning, police said.
Police said it was unknown how much money was in the safe.
We’re betting is was mostly dollar bills, half of which were wadded up and probably wet for some reason. The other half smelled like menthol sadness.
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Dear Punching Kitty: Happy Holidays Edition
Posted on December 22, 2011
| The Editor
The other day we told you about a nun getting donkey punched and robbed in St. Louis, and while we were pretty sure it was the greatest thing written ever…not just good, but “Bible Good”. However different strokes for different folks! Here’s a comment that was submitted last night about that post:
KADASH_SHALAM:
Your sense of humor is as disgusting as the assault it’s self!! Shalam.
First off, we really appreciate you signing your internet comment!
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Lonely During the Holidays? Yahoo Answers is Here to Help
Posted on December 21, 2011
| The Editor
It’s a few years old, but the answer is still on the money and the question is timeless.
via Yahoo! Answers
Welcome to St. Louis: We Rob Nuns Here
Posted on December 21, 2011
| The Editor
So it’s come to this. We’re robbing nuns now.
St. Louis thugs, clearly running out of regular folks to terrorize within the city limits have decided to start going after the formally untouchable: Nuns. Yup, totally beating up and robbing nuns now. Watch your back babies, kittens and Rams QB Sam Bradford. You’re just as cute and harmless as you’ve always been, but apparently a lot closer to fair game than you’d think.
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KMOV Refuses to Say The South City Peeping Tom Was Masturbating
Posted on December 20, 2011
| The Editor
There’s a “Peeping Tom” terrorizing South City neighborhoods creeping outside people’s windows and hanging out in alleys furiously jacking it. Even worse, he’s dying for that eye-contact.
The man has been spotted several times in the 7600 block of Virginia Street performing a solo sex act.
Residents say the man would stand outside people’s windows performing a sex act on himself, and those residents say has been happening for weeks.
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Some Little Bitch Tried to Steal From a One-Legged Old Lady
Posted on December 19, 2011
| The Editor
Watch out everyone! Tough guy coming through! Brandon Welch, 20 (but apparently going on 12 by the looks of that photo) needed some money and he tried real hard to make it the honest way. He wanted to do some yard work, and even asked a whole two times before deciding to just get a mask and go the home invasion route on the only person in St. Louis his little ass thought he could take: A 80 year old lady in a wheelchair because she lost a leg to gangrene.
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The New St. Louis Holiday Card Has Been Selected!
Posted on December 16, 2011
| The Editor
A little over a month ago, Mayor Francis Slay announced his yearly call for submissions to design the St. Louis Holiday Card, or at least A Holliday Card…and while they have to say “holiday” for the diversity blah blah blah of the city, if you were thinking about drawing a Kwanza card you can just stop right now. We all know that’s just not gonna happen.
The top 10 winners get their cards hung up in City Hall so that grumpy people waiting in some god forsaken line to pay some fee they’d only recently heard of will see them and a begin to mentally pick out the inaccuracies in them, forgetting entirely that a child made it.
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Repeatedly Stabbing Your Mom is No Way to Win an Argument
Posted on December 14, 2011
| The Editor
You come home late one night and your mother is waiting for you. You’re a little drunk, but you can play it off and control yourself but screw that! You’re 44 years old and the last thing you want to do is to have this discussion about your drinking again with Mom…but you know you can’t avoid it now. The arguing starts and you’ve been down this road so often you might as well have a script, but tonight’s different.
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