to actually now admire 'the woman who put the cat in the bin'

[southeastastra]

in a raoul moat stylee

what did you do....

then you look very old for your years. get to aunty gok.

actually - im threatening mine with this now

"catch another mouse and its the bin for you"

"another bird?!! its the bin for you my girl"

its not working though....she just looks at me and purrs

Top Cat anyone?

Vicar/Edam: I can't say I've given it that much thought - have vaguely seen cats leap several feet up fences and walls without it seeming to bother them. But this is such a slow-news-week sodding non-story that the fuss is what amuses me.

It is just all weird isn't it? Am I the only one who thinks surely there must be more news worthy stories.

I'm assuming it is front page news as there is cctv footage? Any other time it would have been a couple of inches on page 30.

I also love the idea that crimes normally put down to teenage yobs may be carried out by middle aged women with too much time on their hands!

It's Facebook/silly season/death threats news hook

Oh, is that what the people outside her house are doing? They are her fans rather than people who are waiting to shut her in a bin, should she ever brave leaving her house.

I can't beleive she is only 45. She must have had a bloody hard paper round.

She knows something we don't know...

About cats, and zombies, and quantum mechanics and shit.

Or, at least, she will soon.

Death threats are a bit much, but I think she is probably ideally suited to "A good smack in the head" therapy. Lots of people are in need of this therapy, unfortunately there is no funding.

SGB, the bin had a big heavy lid, no way a cat could lift that. It was totally trapped. It might have been "funny" as she is reported as saying if it had been the kind of bin a cat could get itself out of. (Not in my view, but I suppose one could stretch a point.)

This thread appears a bit of passive aggressive 'joke' making - giving the opportunity to have a good sneer at people who are affected by the story.

However, taking it at face value - don't agree with the death threats (massive over-reaction) but this woman is a nasty piece of work.

Nothing admirable about deliberate animal cruelty.

She attempted to kill the cat. It was trapped and would have been crushed in the rubbish lorry. She can't plead ignorance - a reasonably intelligent person could have forseen that it was dangerous.

Cruel, stupid woman who deserves to be prosecuted and properly punished.

OK, so it wasn't a nice thing to do, by any means (though there is a valid argument to be made about the general unethicalness of keeping domestic cats and their threat to biodiversity, etc etc), there is something distasteful about the baying fuckwits overreacting to this when rape, murder and sexual assault even if caught on CCTV do not attract anything like this level of witless nappy-filling fury.

Rubbish bins is where cats should go. Along with nasty breeds of dogs such as pit bulls and bull mastiffs. Well done to the lady.

pmsl @ DrNortherner, and the paper round.

Sod off, schulte, and take your nasty attitude with you.

SGB, people are ruddy weird about rape and assault (sexual or otherwise). Doesn't make what this woman did OK. But look at the rape thread on here tonight - so many people appear to believe if you are married it's OK for your husband to rape you. Amazing and disturbing. And look at all those witless idiots who clogged up the net attacking that singer when whatshisface beat her black and blue - so many weirdos blaming HER for being hit.

(The people getting outraged about the cat may not be the same people as those who are bizarrely unconcerned about rape or assault, however. Maybe the people who think this woman is a nasty piece of work are upright, decent citizens who do object to rape, murder and sexual assault - they are just outraged and sounding off.)

She should have married the cat first then edam, is that what you mean?

I consider myself reasonably intelligent, edam, and I would probably have thought a cat could get out of a wheelie bin. Like SGB says, they climb fences and trees and stuff...

Though in all honesty, it is not a subject I have spent a lot of time mulling over.

cats are sinister

she was doing one bit for the common good before they take over... seriously, when they paw at you they are feeling your organs for weak spots, when they dart out of rooms it is a failed ambush, and the pyramids are just two cat ears of a giant cat head under the sand that will rise when the cats regain power. The Egyptians knew it. So did cat-in-bin-woman.

What edam said to *schulte. The comment about Pit Bulls shows a remarkable lack of knowledge on the subject of cruelty and discrimination.

FWIW I'm a PITA to you all about animal rights, but I put my money and hard work where my big mouth is, to say nothing of my heart and rivers of tears. I ALSO am about to accept an offer to work voluntarily with victims of DV and have very strong, perhaps feminist views on rape and assault as mentioned by edam. Being an animal rights believer does not necessarily mean that you don't care equally about humans.

Oh FFS of course there is absolutely no way a cat could get itself out of a wheelie bin. What's it meant to do climb up it's portable ladder, push the lid up and over with it's tiny paws and clamber out into daylight?

She did it to cause the animal harm, distress and death if it was not discovered. I can't believe that some fuckwits believe her behaviour is OK.

I understand some people don't like animals, fair enough, but to actually want to harm them beggars belief.

I know there are far worse crimes that people commit, and that perhaps this has been blown out of all proportion but, she is the architect of her own demise.

Heath - trees aren't smooth, deep, vertical plastic with a lid that fits into grooves on top.

You can't avoid the laws of gravity if you have nothing to grip. I can't go upstairs without stairs or a ladder. Firefighters don't climb UP poles.

I agree with Vin