I'm sure by now most everyone has heard about the man from Omaha who stuffed his over-active cat into a homemade bong in attempts to "calm her down."
I didn't know all the details, so I typed "man smokes cat" into Yahoo! search. It brought up 49,400,000 hits. Wow. Let's momentarily suspend the fact that some schmuck was actually cruel enough (and dumb enough) to stuff his 6-month-old kitten into a homemade bong so she would calm down, and observe the kind of media attention this act of pure stupidity earned him. The EXACT SAME article appeared on 6 of the first 10 pages: NBC New York, NBC Philadelphia, NBC San Diego, NBC Bay Area, NBC Connecticut and NBC Los Angeles. Even the Huffington Post had something about this (see below for link)! Yay, Nebraska made national news! Wait...
So now, not only will Nebraska be known as the "children of the corn" state, we will be known as the state that tries to smoke our hyperactive pets. Super!
Don't get me wrong, I take animal cruelty very seriously (and luckily, this poor little kitty was only "dazed" after her awful experience), but this...I'm sorry, even the news officials and interview subjects can't be serious about it! Case in point, the following videos from the Huffington Post (I recommend this one first, I found it very entertaining) and the Associated Press:
A friend of mine and I were discussing this recently, and I wanted to share our little conversation. It went something like this:
Friend: "How did he get caught?"
Me: "Maybe the neighbors heard the cat howling."
Friend: "But it would have been...calmed down by then."
Me: "Maybe he was smoking with his blinds open."
Friend: "Who would smoke marijuana with their blinds open???"
Me: "The same guy who tried to smoke his cat!"
Maybe you had to be there, but we found it hilarious. I'm not in any way advoacating animal cruelty, and I assure you this subject would have been no laughing matter had the cat been seriously injured or killed, or if the man hadn't been charged, but I did find a little sick humor in the story (especially the video with the MSNBC anchors who couldn't stop laughing).
Whoa. I didn't hear about this until I read it here a couple days ago, and I still can't believe it! I know it has a humorous element to it, but the thing is, I have a kitten around the same age and he truly is a crazy little guy, and I still can't imagine ever putting him in a bong and trying to get him high.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note, some stupid people thought it would be funny to get my friend's fish drunk at a house party and poured beer in the tank. The fish were dead by morning.
People are bastards.
I agree. Had anything tragic happened to the kitten, I guarantee I wouldn't have found it funny at all. It's not the kitten-in-a-bong aspect I was amused by, it was the pure stupidity of the jerk who did it that I found humorous.
ReplyDeleteWhat if he had put Michael Phelps in his bong....
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