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

Moms Like Me? Over 30% Smoke Weed!

 Posted on January 13, 2011  |  The Editor

KSDK’s MomsLikeMe.com loves them some polls, and for the first time, it’s an interesting one: Do you smoke weed? Ah, of course, the majority don’t…but not quite the majority one might assume. Over 30% are toking it after putting junior on the buss! …well we hope they wait that long. We fear that some may not. Don’t want to point any fingers here, but the mom two driveways down. You know. [Read More]
marijuana  mary jane  moms  pot  weed 

Rams’ Head Coach Steve Spagnuolo Fires Todd Hewitt and Sounds Like a Dick

 Posted on January 13, 2011  |  The Editor

Last week, just after the Rams season came to a close with the thunderous sound of sucking like it was 2009, 2nd year head coach Steve Spagnuolo fired Todd Hewitt abruptly closing his 24 year tenure as team equipment manager. Hewitt succeeded his father in the role, and, in total, had been with the Rams in some capacity since 1978. We’d been ignoring the Hewitt story, also known as, St. Louis sports media’s current fixation, so far because we didn’t know anything about it. [Read More]
football  nfl  rams  steve spagnuolo  todd hewitt 

What Do You Do When the Cops Reach in Your Window For Your Drugs?

 Posted on January 11, 2011  |  The Editor

A high-speed chase started in the city, ended with a traffic accident in Webster Groves, and all started when a police officer thought he saw drugs in use in a car, reached in the window to get them and the suspect…rolled the window up on his arm! Balls. Giant balls. Police say it began around 3 p.m. at the intersection of Minerva and Union when an officer saw what he thought were drugs inside a vehicle. [Read More]
bad boys  car  chase  cops 

Finding Things in the Weather Radar is Fun

 Posted on January 11, 2011  |  The Editor

It’s about the time of year when everyone in St. Louis pretends we are actually in New Mexico and begins to freak out about any nominal snow fall. “Oh no! Snow is coming! Who would have predicted 3 inches of snow in January?!” It’s even worse after the whole New Year’s Eve deal, which turned the St. Louis area population in to a bunch of cave people (ok, some of them were pretty close already) scared of anything with the word “storm” in it as though the weather gods are out to get us. [Read More]
map  radar  snow  storm  weather 

Nobody Likes Ex-Cardinal Pitcher Brad Penny

 Posted on January 10, 2011  |  The Editor

Poor poor Brad Penny, he just wants people to like him, which in today’s society means he needs more Twitter “followers”. Apparently he needs as many as possible so that all the people in the world can enjoy Penny exploring the deepest caverns of the human existence on Twitter with questions like: “Any ideas on what movie we should c tonight?“ He would come over and toss you a baseball but…you know…his arm might fall off which would mean trouble for the right-hander’s plans to get another team to give him millions for 3 or 4 starts and free access to the team’s training facilities. [Read More]
brad penny  cardinals  twitter 

Governor Nixon Doesn’t Wear His Seat Belt

 Posted on January 10, 2011  |  The Editor

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was in a car accident Friday and it turns out he doesn’t wear his seat belt. He even (might have) said that people that do wear their seat belts are pussies and will never grow up to be big and strong like to Governor. Nixon was treated and released from a hospital after the Missouri State Highway Patrol car in which he was riding was rear-ended in a three-vehicle accident on U. [Read More]
Health  jay nixon  jefferson city  seat belt  traffic safety 

Some Guy Raped a Four-year-old and Gave it an STD

 Posted on January 7, 2011  |  The Editor

A 19-year-old man has been charged with raping and giving both gonorrhea and chlamydia to a 4-year-old. He also gave her a My Little Pony for Christmas but is anyone saying anything about that?! No! Of course not. Always focusing on the negative. You people make me sick! No, but seriously, the rape thing is probably the bigger story here. James M. Davis, of East St. Louis, is charged with statutory rape in the first degree. [Read More]
rape  std 

Possible MRI Explosion Threatens to Destroy Sunset Hills

 Posted on January 7, 2011  |  The Editor

Areas of Sunset Hills were evacuated last night based on the threat of a possible explosion of an MRI machine that was damaged in the Great Storm of New Years Eve (turn to KSDK, I think they are still airing “continuing coverage” of the storm) and found to be still on, thus posing a hazard to the area. Or it could have been damaged because this fat guy in the photo keeps posing for photos on MRI machines. [Read More]
explosion  mri  sunset hills 

New city attraction signs aren’t free to businesses

 Posted on January 6, 2011  |  The Editor

Short version: The city is dropping some cash to put up signs all over the place that point to various places of interest like famous restaurants, neighborhoods or attractions. Some are whining about this though when they found out that the signs will only be leading the way to attractions that have paid the city for the sign placement. There are lots of problems people can, and should, be complaining about, but this isn’t one of them. [Read More]
advertising  attractions  budget  money  signs