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

That’s Probably Not Fog Around the Weather Man’s House

 Posted on March 23, 2011  |  The Editor

This is going to be a shocker to a lot of you, but despite our chiseled good looks, amazing arms and a “turn and look, with hair flip” move so perfect it acts like a magnifying glass that focuses our hot rays of sexy in to a beam that instantly ignites the panties of whatever super-model we’ve decided to split open with our ” little lightsaber” to keep warm in that day, we didn’t always run with the “in crowd” back in high school. [Read More]
anthony slaughter  ksdk  sighting  twitter 

Bryan Lang Had A Lot of Meth Labs In His Place

 Posted on March 23, 2011  |  The Editor

At what point are a bunch of meth labs so close together that they become one really super big meth lab? No one knows, especially the Warrenton Police Department because they’re saying they found a whopping 30 different meth labs in his Warren County home. The cops stumbled upon Bryan Lang’s little meth-apoloza when going to search his house after a warrant had been issued in connection to an ongoing burglary investigation. [Read More]
meth  warrenton 

Charlie Gitto’s Toasted Ravioli Will Be on Food Network

 Posted on March 22, 2011  |  The Editor

Last weekend Food Network was in town to shoot a segment for the show “The Best Thing I Ever Ate” and it shot a little deal about the toasted ravioli, the reigning king of “St. Louis foods”, at Charlie Gitto’s on The Hill. The crew was asked if they wanted to go out to St. Charles County to sample their best local flavors, but apparently Applebee’s hanging a Francis Howell jersey on the wall doesn’t mean you have any local claim to the Quesadilla Burger and it’s ability to “Take your taste buds for a Southwest joyride. [Read More]
charlie gitto's  food  the hill 

Archbishop: Long Dead Priest Probably Touched Kids

 Posted on March 22, 2011  |  The Editor

Reverend John Wieberg became a priest in 1918, retired in 1961 and died two years later. In the meantime, he served as a priest in southern Missouri as well as St. Charles County, and, according to St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson, he touched kids. Rebuttal Father Wieberg? …oh, that’s right, you’re dead. Five people have come forward over the past few years alleging abuse that happened from the mid-1940s through the early 1960s, Phil Hengen, director of the archdiocesan office of Child and Youth Protection, said Monday. [Read More]
arthbishop  catholic church  molester  social issues 

St. Louis Cop Claims Responsibility for Leaked Crime Scene Photo

 Posted on March 22, 2011  |  The Editor

This is where we would normally ask if you remember the case a few days ago where a US Marshal was killed in the process of trying to take down one Carlos Boles and that since then, there as been a leaked crime scene Boles’ lifeless body leaked to the internet. We would say that, but we know that most of you already know this because people have been coming here in droves to see if we had it. [Read More]
carlos boles  crime scene  morons  photo  stlpd 

Washington Meth Lab Doubled as a Daycare

 Posted on March 21, 2011  |  The Editor

Washington, Missouri police were about to bust yet another meth lab when the realized something: There’s more kids running around here than you would expect at a meth lab. Authorities got a search warrant to search the residence around 1 p.m. on Saturday after a male occupant had recently been investigated for narcotics. After police were inside, they found eight children sleeping. According to police, a woman inside the home had drug paraphernalia in her hand when they arrived. [Read More]
daycare  meth  washington 

The Spandex House of South City

 Posted on March 21, 2011  |  The Editor

We know what you’re thinking: Photos of Kirstie Alley jogging aren’t relatable to you…but wait! Look again. True enough, that’s a large amount of spandex wrapped around a huge immovable object, but it’s actually a house, not Kirstie Alley. Seriously. Keep looking…try squinting a little…the trick is to look through the picture. There you go! See? House. We know, it’s tough. The house is on the corner of Arsenal and Iowa in South City and is indeed wrapped in white, gold chain-patterned, spandex. [Read More]
art  house  south city  spandex 

Governor Nixon Gives St. Louis More Jogging Trails, Designated Areas for Muggers

 Posted on March 18, 2011  |  The Editor

St. Louis just hit the $1.5 million dollar jackpot with money to make jogging trails…or possibly more adequately named: muggable surface area. Any new paths for people to walk, unguarded, in to shady areas with iPod strapped to their arms sure makes things easy, which can only help St. Louis’ single largest export: People that don’t want to live here anymore. Cha-ching! Nixon said he had no problems allocating funds for trails in tough economic times for the state. [Read More]
forest park  governor nixon  parks  politics  trails 

And the Award of Best Makeup in a Robbery Goes to…

 Posted on March 18, 2011  |  The Editor

This dude, who robbed a St. Charles gas station after going through all the trouble to make himself look like a mexican with a goatee despite the fact that we can see his white guy neck. The goatee looks really nice though…didn’t really color outside the lines at all! Maybe next time, think about going with the sombrero…really drive it home!

via KMOV

makeup  mexican  robbery  st charles 

Kirkwood Middle School Doesn’t Like Hell…or Jesus…Maybe Both

 Posted on March 18, 2011  |  The Editor

“Jesus, he scares the hell out of you” That’s what was on some Kirkwood Middle Schooler’s shirt the other day, and we can sit down some time over General Mills flavored coffee to discuss the reverse cleverness of that shirt and how it’s, frankly, a rare shot of honesty to claim that Jesus is scaring you in to doing good things, but that is for another day. Today we’re talking about how Kirkwood Middle School wouldn’t let Michelle Ramirez wear that shirt to class. [Read More]
hell  jesus  kirkwood  middle school  morons