Man arrested for burning kitten on grill July 16, 2002 Posted: 4:03 PM EDT (2003 GMT) LIBERTY, Missouri (AP) -- A man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly burning a kitten on a barbecue grill as several other people stood around and watched in amusement. A witness pulled the scorched, 7-week-old tabby from the hot coals, but it was severely injured and had to be put to death, police said. "They kept saying, `Meow, meow,' and they were poking at it with a stick," said Sherry Scott, who burned her hand grabbing the kitten. Charles C. Benoit, 24, was charged with animal abuse, punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. He was jailed on $10,000 bail. Jim Roberts, spokesman for the Clay County prosecutor's office, said he does not expect anyone else to be charged, because no witnesses could identify the others. Scott said that on Friday night, she saw 10 or 12 people at the barbecue grill in the courtyard of the apartment complex where she lives. Scott said she asked what they were cooking, and they said it was a cat. She said the group taunted her, daring her to rescue the cat. She said the group scattered when she threatened to call police. She said she pulled the kitten from where it had been shoved into the coals at the back of the grill. Its tail, whiskers, fur, eyes and throat were scorched. "I called him Lucky because I thought I got him out of there just in time," she said. Scott said she and other residents stayed up Friday night trying to nurse the kitten with an eye dropper of milk. But animal control officers decided that because of its respiratory injuries and inability to swallow food, it had to be destroyed.
haha! Damn dude, I had my first hamburder yesterday! No more antibiotics, no more painkillers spanks fer asking!
Why do some people think it's funny to torture cats? Even if you don't like cats, that doesn't come close to justifying things I've seen people do like scaring cats, hurting them and pouring water on them. Then you have extreme manifestations of it, like this (and the high school baseball players who beat a cat to death with their bats, and the Baylor baseball players who shot and skinned one). They always start on animals, and often they move up to people, or they would if they could... pure evil.
That reminds me of a joke..... How do you turn a cat into a dog? Pour petrol over it and light a match, and it goes 'WOOF'!!
I suddenly want to take a trip to Liberty, Missouri with a truck load of charcoal, lighter fluid and some sticks. You guys are all invited to join the party.
What the...it IS killing a child! It's not like I'm making some abstract analogy...a kitten is an animal child! What's the difference between the life of a human and that of an animal?
Are you serious? I am tempted not to respond, because you must be joking. I mean, how do you feel about people standing in long lines for hamburgers? Should I tear up your invitation to go hunting with me? Let's just agree that hurting animals as described in the story is contemptable, and part ways until the next thread.
I hesitate to mention it and I mean no offense to our Chinese friends here, but I watched a documentary on China and these restaurants take cats, whack'm on the head, deep fry, skin'm, cook a little more, then its dinner time. The documentary cameraman actually blurted something like 'it's still alive!' when the cook started skinning the poor animal. I have always hoped that the cook was being particularly ruthless just to shock the crew, and that it was not an accurate representation of what each cat must endure.
I remembering reading a story some time ago where some punk neighborhood kids found this little stray puppy, and were hanging the little fellow from a tree by his kneck. Luckily someone rescued him before he choked to death. Hopefully they give that guy the max!!!
I used to bristle when some white guy makes a joke about Chinese or Asian people eating cats, but I know that people do in some regions. But I'll probably punch a guy if he called me a dog eater in front of my face. Anyways... the cook is probably using an accurate representation because it's a common fact among all cooks that the meat is more tasty (texture, chewyness, flavor) when an animal's (ANY animal in particular for that matter) life is prolonged during the cooking process. In the age of processed food and restaurants, the consumer sees very little of the "raw" product and sees just the finished product like a slab of meat with some seasonings and sauce. I've read that in slaughterhouses, they impale the cattle in many different locations all to the screaming and horror of the cow and let it slowly bleed to death. It makes the meat less gamy and less tough because the cow relaxes every muscle with its dying breath. There's other crap about unsanitation and the conditions they're kept in (in a house of blood and death, any living being, no matter stupid they are, knows that they're going to die). It's just a condition that any meat eater will have to look at (or choose to ignore for the sake of their selfish appetite) whenever they eat meat. I'm a meat eater BTW. It seems like the power of a good meal is too great for the weak... I went off topic there, so I apologize. Somehow I hope people would treat animals with respect, but we can only make a difference with the people around us and I hope that's good enough.
