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

Area Schnucks Finds Shredded Glove in the Ground Beef

 Posted on October 3, 2011  |  The Editor

The Schnucks grocery store at 1060 Woods Mill Road is recalling all ground meat sold on Saturday October 1st after finding the scraps of a plastic glove while cleaning the grinder later in the day. At 8 p.m. Saturday, a thin piece of plastic glove was found in the grinder during cleaning, according to a press release announcing the recall. All Schnucks ground beef and sausage was removed from the sales floor and discarded. [Read More]
Health  meat  recall  schnucks 

The Rams Still Aren’t Very Good At Scoring More Points Than Their Opposing Team in the Time Allotted

 Posted on October 3, 2011  |  The Editor

What have we done to deserve all these trickster St. Louis teams? “Oh I, we’re the Cardinals. We’re going to be pretty good there year! …oh wait, no we won’t. Ooop! Lets make the playoffs suddenly…no we won’t, wait…yes we will…just…barely. Hello Phillies! *shot in the face* Just a flesh wound!” “Hey everyone, we’re the Rams! We did a lot of good stuff last year and spent some money in free agency so everyone says we’re definitely going to be even better and will totally make the playoffs. [Read More]
football  nfl  rams 

Dan McLaughlin Busted For Drunk Driving Again

 Posted on September 30, 2011  |  The Editor

Everyone’s “favorite” Cardinals broadcaster, Dan McLauglin, was busted for drinking and driving again Sunday night. This time after crashing his car in a single car accident in Chesterfield. Cardinals broadcaster Dan McLaughlin has been cited for drunken driving for a second time after a stop by Chesterfield police on Sunday. Police said McLaughlin, 37, was stopped at 10:13 p.m. on Baxter Road and Isleview Drive after he crashed his vehicle. No other vehicle was involved, police say, but they declined to elaborate. [Read More]
cardinals  dan mclaughlin  drunk  mugshot 

Holy Balls! The Cardinals are in the Playoffs!

 Posted on September 29, 2011  |  The Editor

Some how, some way, the Cardinals managed to come back from a 8.5 game lead on September 1st to make it to the playoffs while also letting us enjoy watching the Braves choke away the second largest lead ever in this history of baseball! (Also we hear the Red Sox and Rays had a similar situation. Turn on ESPN to hear all about that.) So what does the little dirty joke blog do with a news story like this? [Read More]
baseball  cardinals  mlb  playoffs 

Woman Turns in Fiancee After Discovering He’s a Pedophile

 Posted on September 28, 2011  |  The Editor

“What? No! You’re crazy. He’s not like that at all!” “We need a van because the extra cargo space is nice, ok?!” “What do you mean we need more Butterfingers? Didn’t I just buy a bunch of them!?” “Oh come on mom! How does someone look like a pedophile?” “Hey honey? Can I borrow your phone for a second I gotta check the traffic for my dri…what the hell is this? [Read More]
pedophile  warren county 

An Overly Theatric Thief Robbed Some People in Dellwood

 Posted on September 27, 2011  |  The Editor

Did you guys see the guy running around Dellwood Sunday night with a shotgun and wearing a hockey mask? Well don’t get too excited…it turns out that he wasn’t Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles extra Casey Jones as we originally thought. Meaning, one, that our autograph is seemingly worthless, and two, that he was probably the guy that robbed the home for mentally disabled adults around those parts. Sure, this is St. [Read More]
dellwood  theft 

Quick, Everyone Get Back on the Cardinals Bandwagon

 Posted on September 26, 2011  |  The Editor

Two weeks ago the Cardinals bandwagon was a pretty empty place. Tony LaRussa was on there, and the whole Fox Sports Midwest staff are contractually obligated to stay on there and make cheery promos to be run immediately after any blow-out loss by the Cardinals, but other than that there wasn’t much going on. Pujols even asked if he could use the extra bandwagon space in the off-season because he might have some moving that needs to be done. [Read More]
baseball  cardinals  mlb  playoffs 

Don’t Walk on the Poplar Street Bridge

 Posted on September 26, 2011  |  The Editor

Early Sunday morning a drunk driving a Mustang hit a St. Louis PD car, drove past the officer that was trying to stop him and then proceeded east on to the Poplar Street Bridge where it swerved, hitting two pedestrians, sending one to the hospital and knocking the other off the bridge to his death. Horrible way to die. We would avoid any and all walking on the Poplar Street Bridge, especially going east-bound but that’s just us. [Read More]
driving  drunk  poplar street bridge 

Pie Charts For Science

 Posted on September 23, 2011  |  The Editor

We present to you a few pie charts showing some relevant data but in the shape of pies because we both know you love pie. Maybe if you ate up science like you gobble down pie, you’d be working at that job you’d rather have. Something to think about, but today is a new day and you can have your lookin’ balls feast on fresh baked St. Louis science! 1. Reasons we go anywhere near North City 2. [Read More]
manchester  north city  pie chart  science  tony larussa 

St. Louis Can’t Even Keep the Few Criminals They Do Catch In Jail

 Posted on September 19, 2011  |  The Editor

Just to keep the math easy, lets say St. Louis actually takes down 10 criminals a day. 5 of which are released for various reasons and 2 went down in a blaze of gun fire leaving just 3 criminals we need to put in jail. Of those 3, it seems like at least 1 will just walk out in to the street. “Hey you guys coming?!”, he’ll yell at the remaining 2. [Read More]
escape  prison