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
Kevin Slaten Show to Get Somehow More Annoying with Addition of Reality TV Star
Posted on December 27, 2010
| The Editor
590AM is about to find out what it’s like to take two people, put them in a broadcast closet and find out what it’s like when the hosts stop being polite and start getting real!
St. Louis sports radio’s “Rush Limbaugh” position is filled by one Kevin Slaten. He panders to the lowest, hoosier-iest people in the market, always upset about whoever it’s shocking to be upset about because he isn’t “controlled” by whomever he’s mad at, telling everyone that doesn’t call in to tell him how great he is that they’re morons.
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Rams Beat 49ers, Keep Playoff Hopes Alive
Posted on December 27, 2010
| The Editor
The Rams had to win and they did, despite their usual lame offensive coaching when they get even the smallest of leads.
Sam Bradford led the charge with 292 yards, going 28 for 37 with 1 touchdown and no interceptions, all while breaking Peyton Manning’s 12-year old record for NFL rookie completions.
“I guess it’s pretty cool,” Bradford said of the record. “I’m all fired up about the win. If you don’t get excited for a game like this, you’re probably in the wrong business.
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August Busch IV’s Girlfriend Found Dead at His Home
Posted on December 27, 2010
| The Editor
August Busch IV, St. Louis’ bad boy playboy millionaire, who’s family beer-making business was sold to InBev a few years ago, had yet another run in with Johnny Law recently when a dead woman was found last Sunday in his South Lindbergh mansion. The woman, 27 year old Adrienne Nicole Martin, was a former girlfriend of Busch. Pretty suspicious that a woman was found dead in a mansion and the mansion was owned by her boyfriend, and the boyfriend has had a few issues with the law in his past right…and that all day Sunday my trick knee was aching which usually means there’s been a disturbance in the Hooters waitress force?
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
Posted on December 23, 2010
| The Editor
We’ll be back next week after taking a couple of days off for Christmas.
It’s a long time until Monday, and since you’re probably going to be lost without our guidance, here’s a few little tips to get you through the holiday:
5. Die Hard is the best Christmas movie of all time. Shut up about It’s a Wonderful Life or Elf.
4. It’s on the record now, even the Mayor’s office isn’t safe:
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Woman Attempts to Hire Hitman to Kill Husband
Posted on December 23, 2010
| The Editor
A Collinsville woman has been charged by the police for attempting to hire a hitman with the intent of having the father of her child killed. Christina Keck offered a measly $600 bucks to a man to kill her baby daddy…but the guy was an undercover cop…or he just said that to seem more bad ass after he turned her in for trying to have someone kill a man for less than the price of a MacBook.
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MetroLink Train Takes Out Truck
Posted on December 23, 2010
| The Editor
Like the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the MetroLink train’s vision is based on movement. Still, motionless objects are effectively invisible to these large beasts of burdon, making things like a stalled flatbed truck on the tracks so hard to avoid.
Witnesses said the train, headed eastbound, hit the flat-bed truck that was stalled at the North Market crossing around 5:30 p.m.
A red truck with “Mr. JP Towing” on the side was wedged against a pole about 200 feet south of where North Market crosses the MetroLink tracks.
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Stop Putting the Arch in Your Logo
Posted on December 22, 2010
| The Editor
One of the most frequent questions we are asked is: “Why doesn’t your site name have anything to do with St. Louis?” to which we always reply “It doesn’t need to. If the site does well, the name won’t matter and it will just seem St. Louis-y regardless. Having to put “STL” or “river” in every damn thing created around here is lame and lazy.
That question is actually #2 to one other question though: “Why don’t you have the Arch on your site anywhere?
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Man Made Two Kids Look at His Old Junk at Goodwill. By Junk We Mean Penis.
Posted on December 22, 2010
| The Editor
Two children got a little more than used coats at the Fairview Heights Goodwill store earlier this year…apparently there was a sale on trouser snakes this past October.
A registered sex offender from St. Louis was charged Tuesday with two counts of sexual exploitation of a child for allegedly exposing himself to two children inside the Fairview Heights Goodwill Store, according to the St. Clair County state’s attorney.
Jeffrey Hudacek, 42, is accused of committing the acts on Oct.
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Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster Lists the 15 Worst Charities
Posted on December 22, 2010
| The Editor
According to Missouri’s Attorney General Chris Koster, there are charities out there that aren’t really here to help! Some charities are super helpful organizations that take money and give all of it over to whatever their cause is…women that like fat guys or Mexicans something…but other charities take your money, pocket most of it and then throw a few pennies at their “cause” to keep things nice and legal. We’re starting to think that money we gave to the “Women Helping Others Reach Elevated Standards” last week won’t really help anything except for Cinnamon’s issues with her pimp.
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East St. Louis Layoff Policemen, Please Don’t Tell All the Criminals
Posted on December 21, 2010
| The Editor
East St. Louis you’re about to get that much worse.
Layoff notices have already gone out in East St. Louis, and 16 police officers could be gone as of January first.
The mayor says these layoffs are needed in order to get the city budget under control.
Budget issues are totally important, but maybe…maybe the police aren’t where we’d make the cuts seeing as though you’ve got people stealing church vans and smashing them in to ATMs the same day this all was announced.
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