# "Alright, Fluffy, we've got you surrounded!" "Meow, coppers!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 7, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-fluffy-weve-got-you-surrounded-meow-coppers/253983 "2004-07-07T19:05:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-fluffy-weve-got-you-surrounded-meow-coppers/253983/1 "2004-07-07T19:05:03Z")
PRINCETON, W.Va. (AP) - A “cunning” 14-year-old girl charged with murdering her father escaped from home confinement by removing an electronic monitoring device from her ankle and gluing it to a cat, authorities said. Police were searching for Kayla Marie LaSala, who fled an uncle’s house early Saturday, according to Mercer County Prosecuting Attorney Bill Sadler. Kayla faces trial Sept. 7 as an adult on a first-degree murder charge in connection with the Feb. 23 stabbing of her father, Stephen LaSala. Kayla apparently managed to cut the monitor from her ankle, said Steven Collins, director of the home confinement program and the Day Report Center in Princeton. “It’s not something you can just snatch off or take off,” he said. “My officer informed me he thought it (the monitoring device) was super-glued on a cat,” Collins said. The cat was not hurt, he said. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-fluffy-weve-got-you-surrounded-meow-coppers/253983/2 "2004-07-07T19:12:58Z")
“Police realized something was wrong when the signal didn’t move for 23 out of 24 hours except to visit the food bowl and litter box.” ---
**Author:** ![Feit\_C\_Taj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@Feit\_C\_Taj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feit_C_Taj)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-fluffy-weve-got-you-surrounded-meow-coppers/253983/3 "2004-07-07T19:46:29Z")
I swear it wasn’t me! It was the one-armed man! Oh. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-fluffy-weve-got-you-surrounded-meow-coppers/253983/4 "2004-07-07T19:51:13Z")
How do we know it wasn’t the cat all along and the girl is trying to make sure justice is served? Sure, Fluffy _looks_ all innocent and stuff… :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-fluffy-weve-got-you-surrounded-meow-coppers/253983/5 "2004-07-07T19:59:36Z")
There’s a joke in there somewhere about the killer pussies of West Virginia, but I’m too tired to look for it. Please let me know if you come across it. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-fluffy-weve-got-you-surrounded-meow-coppers/253983/6 "2004-07-07T20:25:17Z")
I’m reasonably confident I’ll never come across a killer pussy, in West Virginia or elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-fluffy-weve-got-you-surrounded-meow-coppers/253983/7 "2004-07-07T20:58:47Z")
What kind of an idiotic justice system puts a person accused of first degree murder in “home-confinement”? Sure, the little bitch is only fourteen, but if the court decided she was old and/or competent enough to stand trial as an adult, her butt should have been in a locked down facility. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-fluffy-weve-got-you-surrounded-meow-coppers/253983/8 "2004-07-07T23:36:57Z")
It would just be too perfect if the girl killed her father by sucking the breath out of him. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-fluffy-weve-got-you-surrounded-meow-coppers/253983/9 "2004-07-07T23:39:34Z")
No, no. You mean “too purrrrfect.” ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-fluffy-weve-got-you-surrounded-meow-coppers/253983/10 "2004-07-08T02:05:28Z")
How would the monitor have been removed from the poor cat? I’m hoping poor kitty wasn’t soaked in nail polish remover, the way that I had to soak my fingers when I accidentally bonded them together. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-fluffy-weve-got-you-surrounded-meow-coppers/253983/11 "2004-07-08T02:29:26Z")
> [@TeaElle](#): > > How would the monitor have been removed from the poor cat? > > I’m hoping poor kitty wasn’t soaked in nail polish remover, the way that I had to soak my fingers when I accidentally bonded them together. :eek: You know, that has _never_ worked for me _any_ of the times I’ve tried it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alright-fluffy-weve-got-you-surrounded-meow-coppers/253983/12 "2004-07-08T06:15:17Z")
Damn, got beat to the killer pussy reference… So uh, I’m with Baker, why was a freaking MURDER SUSPECT on bloody HOME CONFINEMENT. What the bloody blue fuck?