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

Damn That’s a Nice Coyote Hat

 Posted on April 18, 2011  |  The Editor

This Coyote hat, which is more of a full animal skin with a pocket for your head at one end than it is a traditional hat, can be all yours for $150! The sexy model does not come with the hat or, hopefully, at all.

We actually aren’t sure if this “hat” was actually something someone purposefully made this way, or a coyote tried to eat this slow-moving old broad one day only to choke and die while trying to swallow her head.

If your idea of a good way to blow $150 is to shove your head in the neck-hole of a dead animal skin, then this sounds like a good deal. It also sounds like a good deal if you just want to buy it to scare the neighbor kids or if you wanted something to wear to work on the days you have meetings with that vegetarian chick that just keeps going on and on about animal cruelty like you actually slaughtered your chicken nuggets in the parking lot.

via Craiglist and Reddit (bbr4nd0n)

[Full screen capture of the ad after the jump for posterity if/when the Craigslist link stops working]

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coyote  craigslist  hat  highland  illinois  sighting 

Man Beaten With 2×4 in North City Basement

 Posted on April 18, 2011  |  The Editor

A man and his girlfriend are telling police of one really really bad day where the man was being confined to a North City basement and beaten with 2×4’s. Wow, that sounds pretty ba…oh and then he was moved to another vacant North City home a block over and beaten more there. Yikes. According to Lieutenant Dan Zarrick, a girlfriend received a call from her boyfriend that he’s being held against his will and assaulted in the basement of a house in the 5400 block of Partridge. [Read More]
beating  north city 

The Office’s St. Louis Girls Start a Bake-Off

 Posted on April 15, 2011  |  The Editor

According to Mindy Kaling, aka The Office’s Kelly Kapoor, the St. Louis-raised girls of the office started up a little local-flavored bake-off on set: The three St. Louis raised stars of The Office who can apparently all make Gooey Butter Cake, are, of course, Jenna Fischer (Pam), who is hot, Ellie Kemper (Erin), who is also hot, and Phyllis Smith (Phyllis) , who also…um…works there. We asked Kaling for an update on the bake-off results, but as of this writing, we haven’t heard anything back. [Read More]
celebrity  ellie kemper  gooey butter cake  jenna fischer  phyllis smith 

Jailed State Senator Jeff Smith Tells Us What a “Prison Wallet” Is

 Posted on April 15, 2011  |  The Editor

(Photo: Jeff Smith, right, with one of the guys he met in prison I guess…wait, no. It’s Bill Streeter.) Jeff Smith, the Missouri state senator who was jailed last year after being found that he lied to the feds during questioning about a conspiracy with Voters for Truth to run negative ads against opponent Russ Carnahan, has written a little piece about his time in the clink and in it he answers questions like “What does ‘get chalked’ mean? [Read More]
jeff smith  politics  prison 

KFNS Now Offers Free SPAM to Those That Sign Up!

 Posted on April 15, 2011  |  The Editor

A reader forwarded us an e-mail they recently got from KFNS, one of the approximately 17 sports talk stations in town, to show us how amazingly crappy their “E-Blast” is. They were right, it suucccckkksss! …but we weren’t exactly surprised and gather that the other stations in town offer more of the same, so they should all be paying attention instead of laughing at the back of the classroom while we whip out the ruler on poor KFNS. [Read More]
email  kfns  kslg  ktrs  radio  wxos 

Foodbank Tries to Trick You in to Being Charitable While Working Out

 Posted on April 14, 2011  |  The Editor

Nice try St. Louis Area Foodbank. Here’s where you messed up in your little trick to get people to be charitable by saying lifting canned goods are working out: We don’t want to do either of those things! In. Your. Face. The organization also aims to demonstrate the physical benefits of volunteering at nonprofit organizations throughout St. Louis and is encouraging people to sign up for the “Pound for Pound Challenge,” a free online weight loss program that raises money for Feeding America. [Read More]
charity  foodbank  Health  work out 

Man Beats Girl to Death, Blames Actions on Poor CPR Instructions During Appeal

 Posted on April 14, 2011  |  The Editor

Quintin Gray was found guilty and sentenced to 25 years for beating his girlfriend’s 3-year-old little girl to death back in early 2008. Gray is now appealing that charge and though he isn’t exactly refuting the vicious beating he laid on the little girl, he is offering a reason as to why the beating happened. He was trying to give the girl CPR and he just isn’t very good at it! [Read More]
murder  quintin gray 

Tony LaRussa and Ray Vinson’s Awkward Handshake Will Forever Haunt Our Dreams

 Posted on April 14, 2011  |  The Editor

UVerse must have accidentally let a Cardinal game through because last night we sat down and actually got to watch the Cardinals hammer the Diamondbacks. It had been a few days since we last watched a Cardinal game, so as we blissfully drank in the offensive displays that usually bore us and watched Lance Berkman’s grand slam shot float over the wall of Chase Field we had all but forgotten the thing that would later ruin the game for us. [Read More]
commercial  ray vinson  tony larussa 

Passed Out Pirates Fan Gets Face Queef

 Posted on April 13, 2011  |  The Editor

Pop Senario Quiz: You’re a nice St. Louis girl at the ballgame in your Molina jersey and your matching red shoes, and as you’re leaving, you see a guy passed out on the street…who also happens to be a Pirates fan…who also happens to have pissed himself. What does a nice young lady of St. Louis do? A: Help the gentleman up, and get him to a cab. B: Take his wallet. [Read More]
cardinals  fans  pirates  sighting 

License Plate Stickers Could Move to Your Dashboard

 Posted on April 13, 2011  |  The Editor

A common, but often over-looked crime in the St. Louis area is the theft of those little license plate stickers. Sure, most people are pissed, but not bleeding when they realize they’ve been victimized, so it’s not exactly at the top of everyone’s mind, but estimations are that the sticker theft costs the state of Missouri around $10 Million every year. That’s a lot. Like “turn out the lights and lets do this thing…no kissing though” a lot. [Read More]
dmv  license  stickers  theft