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

St. Louis is Home to the Only People That Actually Wanted to Get in a Radio Shack

 Posted on July 15, 2011  |  The Editor

Ever been to a Radio Shack? No? Well don’t bother. They’re empty little stores filled with horrible cell phones, overly expensive cables and little portable black and white TVs that are totally pointless, unless you like watching Mr. Bean reruns on PBS through a haze of static on a 2.5-inch screen. No one wants to go in to a Radio Shack…well, almost no one. The target of the vandals was the Radio Shack store in the 3500 block of Hampton Avenue near Potomac Street. [Read More]
radio shack  theft 

We Made St. Louis Magazine’s 2011 A-List

 Posted on July 13, 2011  |  The Editor

Check out the July issue of St. Louis Magazine, the one with a Ted Drewes cup on the cover, flip to page 79, give yourself a second to read about John Hamm on the previous page, then look slightly right…a little more right…now look up…check us out yo! A-List! Right there next to Erin Bode, who’s photo looks like they really cropped tightly, removing the full shoot where we’re towering over her with our shirt off and rocking some skin-tight cutt-off jeans shorts, as she looks right in to our crotch. [Read More]
a-list  press  st louis magazine 

Translating Police Chief Dan Isom’s Response To Citizen’s Police Complaints

 Posted on July 12, 2011  |  The Editor

Over the last weekend a piece ran in the Post Dispatch about a guy that had his laptop stolen. With the help of exactly no one, he managed to locate the thief by logging in to his computer and trick him in to typing in his name and address. The victim gave all the information to the police who did…nothing. Four days after the June 20 burglary of his Pennsylvania Avenue home, Van Almsick grew tired of waiting. [Read More]
dan isom  police  politics  theft 

Some Old Lady in St. Charles Used a Lot of Water

 Posted on July 11, 2011  |  The Editor

An old lady in St. Charles was shocked to see her water bill in April was for $2,043.78, and we’re all talking about this because nothing all that interesting is going on. Kelly, who is 80 and lives alone in her home in the 2000 block of Graystone Drive, has been disputing the accuracy of the 351,000 gallons of metered water consumption the city billed her for. Kelly sent a letter disputing the bill to the city’s public works director, Debra Aylsworth, in May and met with public works officials on June 14. [Read More]
bill  pooping  sewer  st charles  water 

We Gave Mayor Slay His Own Meme!

 Posted on July 8, 2011  |  The Editor

If you’re on the internet, you know about the recent surge of photo memes. For example, there’s Philosoraptor, Hipster Kitty, Scumbag Steve, Socially Awkward Penguin, Business Cat, and Technologically Impaired Duck just to name some of the better ones. …but now…we present to you…the beginning of the “Mayor Slay” meme! He’s a nice-guy mayor awkwardly leading a city further in to crappiness, so these pretty much write themselves…except for the ones we did, those took amazing comedic skill. [Read More]
mayor slay  meme  politics 

St. Louis Police Release Car Jacker, Said He Had an Honest Face

 Posted on July 7, 2011  |  The Editor

After having over 20 cars broken in to downtown, the St. Louis Police finally made a breakthrough over the weekend when they arrested two suspects in connection with the break-ins…and by “connection”, we mean that they totally did it. Suspect Calvin Willis, 25, was ordered held on $75,000 bond after being charged with second degree assault, first degree tampering and resisting arrest. Alright! Yeah! Maybe next time you’ll think twice before doing something hurtful like trying to steal our Paula Cole CD off our passenger seat! [Read More]
break in  car  courts  michael paynes  parking lot 

Pujols Returns!

 Posted on July 6, 2011  |  The Editor

16 days. That’s how long it takes for a broken wrist to heal. You take any longer than that and you’re just milking it you pussy. That’s not us talking mind you, it’s Albert Pujols and he can do that because he set the bar yesterday miraculously returning to the Cardinals just over two weeks from the day he bashed his wrist against the Royals’ Wilson Betemit. After taking indoor batting practice and fielding grounders outside on Monday, Pujols said there was no pain and added that he felt great. [Read More]
albert pujols  baseball  cardinals  injury 

Rain Washes Away Sunday Concerts at Fair St. Louis

 Posted on July 5, 2011  |  The Editor

We aren’t just “America” here in St. Louis, we’re Middle America, the “Heartland”, right in the center! If someone would to motorboat lady America’s giant boobs, their nose would be rubbing St. Louis. As such, we love the Fourth of July and all the crap that comes with it: funnel cakes, tank tops, cut off jean shorts, washed up 90s bands playing loudly, and fireworks. Oh and if you think our patriotism is as fleeting as our love/hate relationship with Cardinal relief pitchers, it’s not! [Read More]
4th of july  concert  fair st. louis  music  rain 

Breaking Down Hillsboro’s Sexy Garage Burglary

 Posted on July 1, 2011  |  The Editor

It all started out so normally: A man and a woman were burglarizing a home in Hillsboro, Missouri last Sunday, gleefully picking through a selection of power tools and DVD players in the home’s garage, but to say it got weird next doesn’t quite cover it. Here’s where the train came off the tracks and drove directly in to a tanker truck of crazy, causing a massive WTF explosion: First, the felonious couple decided they needed to have sex. [Read More]
burglary  hillsboro  jefferson county  morons 

St. Louis Reddit Puts on a Baseball Play

 Posted on June 30, 2011  |  The Editor

Social news site Reddit’s St. Louis community put on a little impromptu play using numerous fake accounts the other day in the comments of a post to the site entitled “Reddit help! I am pitching and I can’t make an out!” by “RyanFranklin“, a account faked in homage of the recently released St. Louis Cardinals closer.

There’s really nothing else that we can do other than show you a (probably now slightly outdated) screenshot after the jump (it’s a long image). Read the comments and check the byline for the characters such as “JoseQuendo11”, “tonylarussa”, “Mark_McGwire”, “DelTacoBuilding” and “FrancisSlay”

Enjoy it in all it’s glory!

[Read More]
baseball  cardinals  reddit  ryan franklin  social media