Monday, August 23, 2010

So who is the woman who put the cat in the garbage container?

This CCTV footage captures the moment a middle-aged woman picks up a cat - and drops it into a wheelie bin.

The grey-haired woman, aged around 50, is filmed stroking tabby Lola on a wall outside a house on Brays Lane in Coventry at around 8pm on Saturday.

But she then suddenly grabs the four-year-old cat by the scruff of the neck before throwing it into a wheelie bin and slamming the lid closed. She then calmly walks away.
Terrified Lola was trapped in the bin for 15 hours before her owners Stephanie Andrews-Mann and husband Darryl finally found her the following morning.
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The woman appears to be harmless as she strokes the four-year-old cat as it walks along a wall Photobucket
The middle aged woman then grabs the cat by the scruff of its neck and puts it in the bin before shutting the lid
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The woman then casually walks away. The cat was found by its owner 15 hours later
Footage of the attack was captured by a CCTV camera which the couple use to monitor the front of their home.

They have now posted the video on YouTube and Facebook in a bid to track down the culprit.

Darryl, 26, a mobile phone repair man, said: 'I'd like to know how she would feel if she was stuck in a bin for 15 hours without food or drink.
'I came down to feed Lola on Sunday morning but couldn't find her anywhere.

'It was really hot day and outside and I searched nearby alleyways but suddenly heard a tiny meowing coming from the bin.

'I looked inside and I found her in the bin, she was terrified and covered in her own mess.
'At first I thought she'd somehow climbed inside the bin herself but when I checked the CCTV I was gobsmacked to see some woman had done in deliberately.'
Darryl lives with Stephanie, 24, a customer services worker with Ford and her eight-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, Chloe.
Stephanie said: 'I find the entire thing sickening. I cannot believe someone would do this to an innocent family pet.
'Lola was a rescue cat and was wary of people when we first got her.
'She has a lovely disposition and really wouldn't hurt a fly. This is what makes the attack on her so shocking.
'I really want to find the woman who did this to her, she must be stopped.'
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Owner Daryll Mann, 26, has posted footage of the incident, which was captured by a CCTV camera, on Youtube in a bid to catch the woman
The couple installed CCTV outside their home two years ago after their car was repeatedly knocked by careless drivers.
Darryl and Stephanie have put the 1.27 minute clip on YouTube in a bid to track down the woman, which has shocked internet users.

Web user Robert Fletcher commented: 'The cat was okay, found shortly afterwards, but there's a mass hunt to find out who the old lady is.

'If you know the woman, get in touch with like the police.

'Actually not the police, probably the RSPCA. Yeah them.

'There's obviously a massive outcry and hunt on to find the lady who did it.'
Lynsey Skinner, wrote: 'Oh my god steph this is insane. Someone must know who she is?

'Have you spoken to your neighbours about it? Crazy and cruel.

'I hope you do report her and she is caught.'

The RSPCA and West Midlands Police are now investigating the incident.

A police spokeswoman said: 'The cat was left in the bin for 15 hours but emerged unhurt.

'The RSPCA were informed and the investigation into the incident will be led by them, as it is a matter of animal cruelty.

'The police will support the RSPCA's investigation and are currently collecting CCTV of the incident.'


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Man gets trespassing notice for telling deli clerk he likes large (chicken) breasts?

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Al Stults Jr. swears that when he told a Safeway deli clerk that he likes large breasts, he was talking about chicken breasts -- not anything attached to her. Which explains why he's so upset about receiving a trespassing notice from the Lakewood Police Department banning him from the supermarket for one year for his remarks.

According to Stults, 61, he visited a Safeway branch on West Colfax in early August. He was in the company of a female companion, but she wasn't with him when he headed to the deli counter to order some chicken breasts. He describes the clerk who waited on him as a "heavy-set woman," and when he pointed at the breasts and said, "I like the large ones," he recalls her chuckling.

The next week, Stults says, he returned to the store to order more chicken breasts -- but when the clerk who helped him the week before saw him coming, she walked away, leaving another woman to help him -- one who, in his opinion, was extremely surly.

After completing the transaction, Stults says he decided to complain about how rudely he'd just been treated. But when he spoke with the assistant store manager, she immediately put him on the defensive.

"She was so, so mad," he maintains. "She said, 'The last time you were here, you giggled about this woman's large breasts.' And I said, 'Oh, baloney.' And then she opened up her flip phone and called the police, and I listened to her make up this whole story about me cussing and threatening her."

Safeway's side of the story? Kris Staaf, the company's spokeswoman in Denver, declines to comment. "We don't discuss personnel issues," she says. "And from what I gathered from our security folks, this is more of a police matter."

It quickly became one. Even though Stults insists that he used no profanities when speaking with the assistant store manager, her call to the police convinced him "it was exit time. I thought, I could be jailed over this."

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Rather than heading to his vehicle, Stults says he left the store on foot. But before he could get too far, a Lakewood Police car zoomed up, lights flashing, just as he stepped off a sidewalk. He claims that the officer nearly hit him.

As Stults remembers it, the officer asked for his drivers license and then returned to her car to check for prior offenses; he points out that his record is clean with the exception of minor traffic tickets. Nevertheless, he continues, "she came back and filled out this trespassing notice and says, 'Here you are, sir. You cannot go on that property for a year from this date. If you're on the property, you'll be charged with trespassing and maybe other criminal charges.'"

This situation frustrates Stults to no end. "It's completely illegal," he says. "They totally side-stepped the legal system."


​That's not the way Lakewood Police spokesman Steve Davis sees it.

"Mr. Stults faces absolutely no criminal charges," Davis says. "We issued him a trespassing notice, which is a civil type of thing. When a business would rather someone not come into their place of business, we can issue these notices that ask a person not to come back for a period of one year -- and if they do, then they can be charged with trespassing."

In Stults's opinion, this notice gives him no chance to present his side of the story -- and, as Davis acknowledges, "our officers weren't there to here his remarks. We don't know how he said what he said to them, or what his tone was. We're going by what we heard, which is that he made the remark about an employee's breasts." For instance, the police report includes the assertion by the assistant store manager that Stults called her a "bitch" -- something he specifically denies.

Davis says trespassing notices like the one given to Stults "are used a lot of times in shoplifting situations, or when somebody creates some type of scene in a store." But, he reiterates, "there is no court date -- so there's no need or opportunity for him to present his side of things to anyone, because there's no criminal procedure."

Still, Stults, a Navy veteran who describes himself as a Christian, feels extraordinarily aggrieved, going off on long rants about fascism and how "a lot of people lying in marble fields died to preserve our rights" -- the very rights he feels have been snatched away from him because of what he sees as a terrible misunderstanding.


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Outfoxed photographer gets his own picture taken..by a fox


It was a day a wildlife photographer found himself well and truly outfoxed.
Firing off frames of an inquisitive five-month-old vixen, photographer Simon Czapp soon realised his subject had quite an interest in photography herself.

The clever cub was so intrigued by the camera equipment she clambered right on top of it.

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An eye for a picture: above Jessie the vixen cub clambers over camera equipment in her pen at New Forest Wildlife Park in Ashurst, Hampshire

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And while she was supposed to be the subject of the shoot, the cub stood on the shutter release button and took her own frames.
Mr Czapp, 25, visited the New Forest Wildlife Park to capture images of new arrival Jessie, named after Toy Story's cowgirl.

She has been rehoused at the animal park in Ashurst, Hampshire - home to wolves, wallabies, deer and otters in 25 acres of ancient woodland - after being abandoned by her mother.

Jessie was offered a few scraps of ham to entice her into posing, but she quickly became so fascinated by the cameras she put on her own performance.

Mr Czapp, from Eastleigh, said: 'Jessie was very playful and inquisitive and not at all camera shy.

'Soon after I arrived she was chewing my shoes and everything seemed to be a game to her.

'Then she started exploring the camera I had set up on a tripod in her outdoor pen.

'She stood on her hind legs to peer into the lens and then used a tree stump to get a better look at the back of the camera.

'She balanced her front paws on it and and one point knocked it over.'

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Smile: The inquisitive five month old vixen poses for the camera

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Gotcha: The clever cub managed to press the shutter release button and captured this image of Simon Czapp photographing her

He repositioned the camera on the tripod nearer the tree stump and Jessie soon hopped back up.

At one point she had all four paws on the camera and was wobbling to keep her balance.

Mr Czapp added: 'She jumped up there several times and I realized it could make a good picture.

'As I was snapping away with the public's viewing window behind me, I thought I heard the camera go off but didn't think much of it.

'But when I checked the memory card afterwards, I was amazed to see Jessie had actually taken two frames of me photographing her.

'I couldn't believe I had been outfoxed by a fox!'

The wildlife park's head keeper, Shanna Dymond, 29, witnessed the impromptu photo shoot.

She said: 'Jessie is a lovely little cub. She is very inquisitive and as soon as we go to see her, she runs up to say hello and wags her tail.

'There were some lovely photos of her but she obviously thought the photographer was worthy of a picture too!'

Jessie and her pen mate, male fox cub Woody, were handed into an RSPCA centre in the spring but were too tame to be released into the wild.

They have an indoor stable to sleep in and an outdoor pen where they have dug a retreat under rocks.


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