It’s not about the cat for me. I’m feeling a little sick to my stomach thinking that this woman might have done similarly cruel and pointless things to babies or children that she may have been alone with at some point in her life. Creeps me out.
When did we reverse the logic that serial killers, sociopaths and the like start by killing or torturing animals, to mean that people who have killed or been cruel to animals are going to turn into serial killers or are sociopaths.
People who like cats draw a completely arbitrary line in the sand about what animals are worth protecting and what animals aren’t, then they try and force everyone to agree with their concept. Guess what cat lovers, a lot of people don’t, get over it. If you want to make your cat your little princess so be it, but don’t expect everyone else to see it that way.
Ah, he’s enjoying the scritchies. One thing I’ve learned about cats - if they really don’t like something, they leave.
(I love that video very much. 
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It’s not reverse logic, it is a symptom. The woman in the video showed inhuman disregard.
I don’t especially like cats. I’ve even put a few down. But watching her pet the juvenile cat and then put it in the trash screams to me that this is not normal behavior.
And she shows that she knows that it’s not socially acceptable behavior, too. She doesn’t want anyone to see her doing this.
I have a long list of animals that I consider vermin/varmints. And while I want them DEAD if they intrude upon my territory, I really don’t want them to suffer. Not even the grackles. Putting a cat in a trash bin is tormenting it. Trash bins are usually uncomfortable, always smelly, and there’s a significant chance that they’ll be emptied and the contents crushed in the near future. In my neighborhood, trash bins are not out in public unless it’s almost trash pickup time…that is, the trash trucks are going to come around within 12 hours. This woman meant to make this cat suffer.
There isnt a binman who collects the individual rubbish bags from the bin as such, rather the whole bin is pushed onto a binlifting attachment at the rear of a bin lorry. The lifting equipment lifts the whole bin in the air, spins it and dumps the waste into loading area of the body of the bin lorry. A packer, basically a large ram, pushes this waste back into the body, compressing it very tightly to utilise the space. So, nobody lifts the lid on the bin before it is emptied.
The cat would have had to have been very quick on its feet to get out of there past the lifting equipment before the packer made it kit-ka-bab.
Good job! The woman did something nasty, cowardly & horrible & has been caught out!
Unecessary cruelty, whether to animals or people, may not be evidence of sociopathy but it is definitely evidence of shitheadedness.
wtf? If you don’t like cats, fine. Your business. If you make it your business to torture cats, rats, or anything else, you’re a shithead pure and simple. It’s got nothing to do with whether an animal is “worth protecting” and everything to do with what sort of person you are.
If you torture cats that belong to other people, for no reason at all, you’re evil. You’re not just torturing the cat; you’re torturing the cat owner. Damaging something to which someone has an emotional attachment is to inflict pain on that person. Either that woman had some kind of grudge against the cat owner or she was a deficient human being who didn’t know or care how much her shithead action could hurt someone.
In her defence, that cat was in Coventry. She was doing it a favour, it no doubt was more comfortable and pleasant smelling in the bin.
Correlation does not automatically translate into “a highly reliable diagnostic”.
Why would anyone have to put a rat IN a dumpster? That’s where I often see them.
She looked around to see if she was being watched. She knew it was wrong.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
I think you might be reading a different Internet. (Or maybe just the YouTube comments?) The sites I frequent get just as worked up about dogs, and I’ve seen much to-do about parakeets on my bird enthusiast sites. But I also know a lot of people who are concerned about the fate of non-companion animals – rats, chickens, cows, opossums, pretty much everything (ok, I’ll admit I haven’t met a nematode-rights advocate yet). And many of us put our money and our mouths where our hearts are – we don’t eat meat, wear leather, and so on.
Sure, we’re outnumbered so far. But we’re out here. Please don’t write off everyone as being foolishly focused on cats and ignoring other creatures.
Well, in the simple act of crawling, this baby has proved itself more useful than every other member of the Kardashian family combined.
In other news, the cat dumper has been identified, and is really, really sorry.
I think my meaning was clear: That someone is attempting to kill an animal by boxing it in so that it can’t eat.
She knew that other people would disagree with her. “Wrong” is not an absolute.
Please don’t take general commentary and presume them to be meant as hard absolutes that extend to everyone.
She’s getting DEATH THREATS because she dumped a cat in a bin?
Yeah, she was being a jerk. But it’s a freakin’ cat, and I say this as an owner of a kitty I love to death. I would understand if the cat’s owner was freaking out a bit, but death threats from strangers seem a bit . . . over the top.
A couple months ago in Korea we had our own cat scandal - some drunk girl found a cat in the hallway of her apartment, kicked it around violently until it was severely injured (this was caught on CCTV), then took it into her apartment, kept it around for a few days until throwing it out of the window to its death. Tossing a cat in a bin seems somewhat . . . tame in comparison.
…that she got caught.
I was thinking that I would like to do this to the cat that pisses in front of my windows, making it impossible to open them for fresh air. Now I know that a long range sniper rifle is a better solution.
Thank God. You guys had me worried that Myra Hindley must have faked her own death.
This SMBC Cartoon shows how public outrage over animal abuse could be harnessed towards a useful purpose.
Then your neighbourhood almost certainly isn’t in Britain. Housing in cities here tends to be terraced houses nearly flush against the sidewalk and street. There is no front yard, and (since the houses are joined together) no side passage to the back yard. Here’s a photo of a typical street. As you can see, the only place to store the garbage bin is in a small walled area right in front of the house. The garbage men will take it from there to empty it, and then replace it.
Unless Bin Lady knew for sure that it was garbage day, that cat had only a one in seven chance of getting crushed.
Well, to put that in perspective, these days people get death threats over parking spots, political affiliation, Little League coaching decisions, trash pickup, having the wrong kind of pet (a dog someone fears, a chicken in an area not zoned for livestock, etc.) and every other damned thing anyone could get upset about. That she received death threats has more to do with her being on the news than with the specifics of her particular act.