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JHVent

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Jul 7, 2001, 12:57:56 AM7/7/01
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Wondering if this is a UL...

I've heard from several acquaintances - throughout the various walks of my life
- that they knew (or heard of somebody) that buried a cat in the ground up to
its neck, and then ran over it with a lawn mower. It was usually preceded by
the statement, "They were so mean that... " or some variation of that phrase.
I heard it again today, and neither the UL archives nor a Google search turned
up anything.

Now, it seems to me that it would be fairly difficult to hold a cat down and
bury it, unless of course it was sedated in some way.

Anybody else heard this, or got anything?

R H Draney

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Jul 7, 2001, 1:27:07 AM7/7/01
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"JHVent" <jhv...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20010707005756...@ng-da1.aol.com...

We had an incident here in Phoenix about a year ago where a kitten was found
duct-taped to a curb (UK: "kerb")...this being Phoenix, and the summertime,
the little fella was badly dehydrated when the animal rescue people came and
took him to the shelter...saw him on the news a day or two later, looking
*very* chipper, and remarkably trusting of the human beings around him
considering how members of that species had treated him earlier...they named
him "Kirby" to commemorate his origin and eventually put him out for
adoption....

I remember wondering at the time how someone could hold a kitten still long
enough to tape him to a concrete surface...as anyone who has ever tried to
put a cat into a pail knows, felis cattus is a twelve-legged species....r


JHVent

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Jul 7, 2001, 1:49:53 AM7/7/01
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>I remember wondering at the time how someone could hold a kitten still long
>enough to tape him to a concrete surface...as anyone who has ever tried to
>put a cat into a pail knows, felis cattus is a twelve-legged species....r

Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking. I tried to make a "Bonsai Kitty"
(before I realized it was a joke... www.bonsaikitten.com) but I could get the
damn thing to stay in the mayonaise jar.

J++ Builder

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Jul 7, 2001, 9:35:12 AM7/7/01
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JHVent wrote:

> I've
(...)


>buried a cat in the
> ground up to
> its neck, and then ran over it with a lawn mower.


YOU SICK BASTARD!

--

GORTICIAN
http://www.mp3.com/gortician

Lee Ayrton

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Jul 7, 2001, 11:30:42 AM7/7/01
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On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, R H Draney wrote:

> I remember wondering at the time how someone could hold a kitten still long
> enough to tape him to a concrete surface...as anyone who has ever tried to
> put a cat into a pail knows, felis cattus is a twelve-legged species....r

Or how they got the duct tape to stick to the concrete.

Bryan S. Slick

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Jul 7, 2001, 2:35:32 PM7/7/01
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On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 08:35:12 -0500, my computer exploded when J++ Builder
spewed this into my newsreader..

> JHVent wrote:
>
> > I've
> (...)
> >buried a cat in the
> > ground up to
> > its neck, and then ran over it with a lawn mower.
>
>
> YOU SICK BASTARD!
>

Please do not feed the trolls.

--
Bryan S. Slick, bryan at m1a1hokie dot net

"To those who preserve it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never
know."

Dowap

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Jul 7, 2001, 4:56:58 PM7/7/01
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In article <MPG.15b1207ea...@hurricane.usenetplanet.com>,

Bryan S. Slick <opin...@arenot.facts> wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 08:35:12 -0500, my computer exploded when J++ Builder
> spewed this into my newsreader..
>
> > JHVent wrote:
> >
> > > I've
> > (...)
> > >buried a cat in the
> > > ground up to
> > > its neck, and then ran over it with a lawn mower.
> >
> >
> > YOU SICK BASTARD!
> >
>
> Please do not feed the trolls.

Not feeding living creatures???

YOU SICK BASTARD!!!!!!!!

--
I am Zathras. Zathras got here by being Zathras. Zathras wants nothing, so
Zathras gets nothing. That is life.

Zathras, from Babylon 5, episode #317, "War Without End, part 2"

M. Leakyiron

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Jul 7, 2001, 5:20:37 PM7/7/01
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jhv...@aol.com (JHVent) wrote:

>Now, it seems to me that it would be fairly difficult to hold a cat down and
>bury it, unless of course it was sedated in some way.
>
>Anybody else heard this, or got anything?

No, but intensive experimental research clearly ought to be done in order
to answer this intriguing question.
--
"M. Leakyiron" is actually 12785 96043 <12785...@GoFor21.com>.
0 123456789 <-Use this key to decode my email address and name.

Bob Brenchley.

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Jul 7, 2001, 4:32:08 PM7/7/01
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On Sat, 07 Jul 2001 20:56:58 GMT, Dowap <do...@petitmorte.net> wrote:

>In article <MPG.15b1207ea...@hurricane.usenetplanet.com>,
>Bryan S. Slick <opin...@arenot.facts> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 08:35:12 -0500, my computer exploded when J++ Builder
>> spewed this into my newsreader..
>>
>> > JHVent wrote:
>> >
>> > > I've
>> > (...)
>> > >buried a cat in the
>> > > ground up to
>> > > its neck, and then ran over it with a lawn mower.
>> >
>> >
>> > YOU SICK BASTARD!
>> >
>>
>> Please do not feed the trolls.
>
>Not feeding living creatures???
>
>YOU SICK BASTARD!!!!!!!!

Well yes, he is, but for his sick mutilation of cats, not trolls.

--
Bob.

Your IQ score is 2 (it takes 3 to grunt).

Adam Helberg

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Jul 7, 2001, 8:43:25 PM7/7/01
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He better be careful. Someone may take him seriously and do the same to him
Adam

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Lisa Garrett

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Jul 10, 2001, 7:40:59 AM7/10/01
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Hello,
Do we need to have these posts displayed?
Hopefully written by some idiot who has nothing better to do??

"J++ Builder" <NOjaso...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Supernaught

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Jul 10, 2001, 8:41:51 AM7/10/01
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Lisa Garrett wrote:
> Hello,
> Do we need to have these posts displayed?
> Hopefully written by some idiot who has nothing better to do??
>

Let's all reply to it, all the while top-posting, and see if that helps.

> "J++ Builder" <NOjaso...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:PM0003888...@unknown.unknown.dom...
>> JHVent wrote:
>>
>> > I've
>> (...)
>> >buried a cat in the
>> > ground up to
>> > its neck, and then ran over it with a lawn mower.
>>
>>
>> YOU SICK BASTARD!
>>
>> --
>>
>> GORTICIAN
>> http://www.mp3.com/gortician
>
>

--

GORTICIAN
http://www.mp3.com/gortician

Chris W.

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Jul 10, 2001, 5:49:05 PM7/10/01
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Sadly, there was also an incident where some kittens were taped to a
Phoenix freeway (I-10?) that weren't lucky enough to receive a
subsequent nickname besides "Splat".

Chris

Bill Kinkaid

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Jul 11, 2001, 10:21:45 PM7/11/01
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On Sat, 07 Jul 2001 21:20:37 GMT, m.lea...@GoFor21.com (M.
Leakyiron) flollopped:

>jhv...@aol.com (JHVent) wrote:
>
>>Now, it seems to me that it would be fairly difficult to hold a cat down and
>>bury it, unless of course it was sedated in some way.
>>
>>Anybody else heard this, or got anything?
>
>No, but intensive experimental research clearly ought to be done in order
>to answer this intriguing question.
>--

Better try it first with lawyers.

Bill "no, Johnny Nash is not related to Graham Nash" in Vancouver

Bill Kinkaid

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Jul 11, 2001, 10:43:01 PM7/11/01
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On Sat, 07 Jul 2001 21:20:37 GMT, m.lea...@GoFor21.com (M.
Leakyiron) flollopped:

>jhv...@aol.com (JHVent) wrote:


>
>>Now, it seems to me that it would be fairly difficult to hold a cat down and
>>bury it, unless of course it was sedated in some way.
>>
>>Anybody else heard this, or got anything?
>
>No, but intensive experimental research clearly ought to be done in order
>to answer this intriguing question.
>--

Better try it first with lawyers.

Bill "or maybe members of the Translink board" in Vancouver

Brian Cooke

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Jul 12, 2001, 12:55:45 PM7/12/01
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> R H Draney wrote:

> > I remember wondering at the time how someone could hold a kitten
> > still long enough to tape him to a concrete surface...as anyone
> > who has ever tried to put a cat into a pail knows, felis cattus
> > is a twelve-legged species....

Indeed. As a man in Quebec found out when he was clawed by his cat as he
tried to "bathe his bird". The story, from today's Globe and Mail:

-----------------Begin unfair use-----------------------------

Cat mauls man while he bathed parrot
Canadian Press
Thursday, July 12, 2001

TROIS-RIVIÈRES-OUEST, QUE. -- Four carloads of police, two ambulances
and an
animal-control officer were needed to control a cat that mauled an
elderly
man.

The commotion was so great that police responded in force because they
thought they were dealing with a domestic dispute, said Marc Gaudreau, a
spokesman for the Trois-Rivières-Ouest public security department.

Touti, the caramel-coloured feline, cornered Gerard Daigle and Francine
Gagnon, both in their 80s, in their bathroom.

The cat was spooked by water when Mr. Daigle turned on the shower to
bathe his bird, an animal-control officer said yesterday.

Guy Theriault, who captured the pugnacious pussy, said the cat was
scared
and reacted with force.

"It was scared of the water," he said. "It felt threatened."

Mr. Theriault noted that cats put up a horrific fight when they're
cornered,
and will twist and turn to fight off any attacker.

"They're very agile and very fast. You don't have much of a chance."

Mr. Daigle was jumped by the cat on Tuesday, just after he had given his
parrot a shower.

Hearing her husband's cries, Ms. Gagnon beat the adult cat off him with
a
broom as it clawed him in several places, inflicting deep scratches,
which
needed stitches. She also had some scratches.

The couple barricaded the bathroom door with a broom and cowered there
until help arrived at their apartment in this community that's halfway
between
Montreal and Quebec City.

"I saved Gerard," a shaken Ms. Gagnon said of her spouse. "Otherwise
he'd
be dead."

The cat, which weighed about four kilograms, was put down, and an
autopsy
was being done by Agriculture Canada. Mr. Theriault, however, said it
was
unlikely the cat suffered from any illness.

Mr. Theriault acknowledged that while his office responds to about four
such
calls a year, he had never seen such an extreme reaction: "There was
lots of
blood, lots in the bathroom, on the floor."

-------------------------End unfair use ----------------------------

Brian "IHNTA, IJLTS bathe his bird" Cooke

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