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

The Cardinals Welcome Former Astro Lance Berkman

 Posted on December 6, 2010  |  The Editor

Teammates and the press call him “Big Puma”, “Fat Elvis” or maybe just Lance, but now he’s also called a Cardinal after Lance Berkman signed a one year, $8 Million dollar deal. [Berkman] The 34-year-old first baseman-outfielder is a five-time NL All-Star with the Astros and last year batted .248 with Houston and the New York Yankees, finishing with 14 homers and 58 RBIs. Berkman was traded to the Yankees on July 31 and helped them win the wild card. [Read More]
baseball  cardinals  lance berkman  mlb 

What Will Happen With Pujols?

 Posted on December 3, 2010  |  The Editor

That’s the big question for the Cardinals and their fans this offseason: What will happen with Albert Pujols, arguably major league baseball’s best player, and who is less than a year from being a free agent and possibly leaving the Cardinals. The guys at Cards Diaspora asked this question to some knowledgable and handsome folks and complied their answers in their post…what’s this? Is our fearless editor, the ruggedly handsome and slighty more popular than the WikiLeaks guy, Mike Flynn included in the list of notables as Tim McKernan and Deadspin’s Wil Leitch? [Read More]
baseball  cardinals  mlb  pujols 

You Can’t Bring Your Gun and Ammo in to Walmart

 Posted on December 3, 2010  |  The Editor

29 year old Tyrel Lee Campbell, obviously fromt the from the Ozarks being as he has 3 in-use names and one of them is “Tyrel”, was arrested and charged with “unlawful use of a weapon and drug possession” stemming from a little incident at a local Walmart over “Black Friday”. Apparently Tyrel took the term “Door Busters” a little farther than he should have. He’s accused of walking into a Branson Walmart the day after Thanksgiving. [Read More]
gun  meth  ozarks  walmart 

InsideSTL and KFNS’ Tim McKernan to Get Married to Girlfriend

 Posted on December 3, 2010  |  The Editor

According to Deb Peterson of STLToday.com, Tim McKernan, who looks like a thumb if he tilts his head a certain way (see right), and of InsideSTL and 590AM KFNS (and previously 1380AM KSLG and before that, KFNS again) is getting married to his girlfriend of two-ish years. McKernan said today that he got down on bended knee while the couple watched a perfect sunset on a beach in Sanibel. “That’s how it went down,” he added. [Read More]
engaged  tim mckernan 

Cardinals Prepare to Ship Out Shortstop Brendan Ryan

 Posted on December 2, 2010  |  The Editor

The quirky Cardinals shortstop that’s had a permanent reservation at Tony LaRussa‘s dog house appears to be on his way out of St. Louis. After the Cardinals acquired ex-Cub Ryan Theriot from the Dodgers, the writing has been on the wall for Brendan Ryan, the mustachioed gentleman in the photo to the right taken a year ago when one of the local clubs had its douchebag collection on public display. [Read More]
baseball  brendan ryan  cardinals  mlb  trade 

North City Home Catches Fire Twice in One Night

 Posted on December 2, 2010  |  The Editor

Fate is a really son of a bitch: A family’s home in North St. Louis experiences a small electrical fire that they quickly put out. They all then climb in the car and go head out to get some stuff to clean up the mess…while they were out a second, more serious fire started. The first fire is a completely clear cut accident, but are suspicious of the second fire, mainly because the gas and electricity were still turned off from the first fire. [Read More]
fire  weird 

Alleged Comic Book Guy Rapist Found Dead

 Posted on December 2, 2010  |  The Editor

So remember the guy from a month ago that managed a multi-hour stand-off with the police as he hid in his comic book store until he finally surrendered… It took St. Louis police 3 and a half hours to peaceably coax suspected rapist and comic book shop owner, Kenneth McClure, to put down his weapon and come out of his south Hampton store, Legends Comics & Sports Cards. So anyway, he’s dead now. [Read More]
comic book  kenneth mcclure  murder  shooting 

WTF: Shirtless Smoking of a St Louis Rey Cigar

 Posted on December 1, 2010  |  The Editor

This has little to do with anything other than it popped up on one of our random internet searches tonight for “St. Louis”: It’s a dude, shirtless, smoking some cigar with the name of St. Louis, on his couch. Five minutes long. Not a word.

Oh and he’s made nearly 2,000 more videos, just like this one!

We have no freaking clue what the point of any of this (pretty sure its probably a “sexy to someone” kinda deal)…but we felt like it was worth sharing.

(Video after the jump which we aren’t guessing you’re going to click through to see it, so we also include a photo of Natalie Portman making out with Jessica Alba while Darth Maul and the Easter Bunny have a lightsaber battle in the background.)

[Read More]
cigar  sextastic  smoking  weird  youtube 

Missouri Man Gets Arrested for Weed Twice in One Day

 Posted on December 1, 2010  |  The Editor

A man in Cauthersville, MO, which is located just six miles from Whogivesacrap, is facing charges for marijuana possession after being arrested, for the same crime, twice in one day. The Sikeston Standard Democrat reports that the man was first arrested five minutes after midnight Sunday at the Caruthersville Community Center. Police say they found several baggies of marijuana and several hundred dollars. …and then, the next night, but technically still the same day… [Read More]
marijuana  subway  weed 

St. Louis Optimizing Murders, Killing Each Other Right at Funeral Homes

 Posted on December 1, 2010  |  The Editor

Oh St. Louis. You are a crafty folk aren’t you. See us St. Louis types just can’t stop killing each other and, frankly, it’s high time we start being more efficient at it. Like say, killing people and reusing your bullets, aiming for the face for that one-shot kill, or just killing people right there at the funeral home. Two mourners were killed and at least one other wounded today when gunfire erupted outside a funeral home. [Read More]
funeral home  murder  shooting