There must be more to this story don’t you think? Like the perp doing a few Jaeger-Red Bull-meth cocktails, or having a hangover from same?
UPDATE: So I’m on my way to the dentist, down 39th, and I notice the cops are surrounding a house off on Dore Lane. I told the gals at the dentist’s office and one said, it’s probably the Cat Guy! When I came back down 39th they had a complete perimeter set up…
Missoula police are surrounding an apartment in South Missoula at this hour, where a man believed to have been involved in a high-profile kitten abuse case lives.
Officers responded to the scene around 1:20 this afternoon and have sealed off the neighborhood around Dore Lane and 38th Street. That’s directly east of the K Mart on Brooks.
An MPD spokesman tells Montana’s News Station reporters on the scene officers have surrounded the unit where the man lives, and a SWAT team is being brought to the scene. Officers have not entered the house as of 2:30 p.m.
on Feb 4th, 2010 at 8:33 am
I just feel sorry for whoever has to defend the bastard.
on Feb 4th, 2010 at 10:29 am
Get a grip. This is a cat. You can find them squished flat every ten miles on any heavily travelled road. Oh, goodness! Did someone run them over deliberately? Call the police! Get a big investigation going and spend some taxpayer money! Put the maniac in prison at a cost of $30,000 per year.
Really, get a grip. You are falling for feminist mythology: People (white males) who torture and kill animals will do it to their wives and kids.
Where are you going to draw the line on this animal-worshipping nonsense? Oh, look! There is Johnny stepping on helpless ants! Better lock him up before he moves on to killing mammals!
This sappy story is just another installment in the long saga of a nation falling under the control of hysterical women and effeminate males.
Get yourself a pet Haitian for heaven’s sake.
on Feb 4th, 2010 at 10:37 am
You got all that out of this post, Max?
on Feb 4th, 2010 at 10:50 am
The deliberate infliction of pain for no use except to satisfy a sadistic urge is not going to be justified by your rant Max.
on Feb 4th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
I admit I was a little surprised to find the welfare of a kitten to be the leading story yesterday. I still think it was a bad case of whiskey nerves. How much you bet that turns up in his defense, Steve?
on Feb 4th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Carol:
Yeah, I got all that out of this post—and a whole lot more. I have been watching this social phenomenon develop for several years. Called PETA feminism if you like. It is just one more symptom of a thoroughly neurotic nation that has lost all sight of what is important.
If you had been following the metamorphosis of “spouse abuse“ into “child abuse” into “animal abuse,” you would not be surprised.
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Steve:
I would like to hear what you think is a good use for the “deliberate infliction of pain.” You seem to be insinuating there are cases where such behavior is justified.
on Feb 4th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
They’ve called in a SWAT team because of kitten abuse? Seems rather excessive.
on Feb 4th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
I think they went to arrest him and he killed himself.
Mark, or I mean Max, you’re assuming a lot of baggage in my post. None of that has anything to do with me. I agree that a the abuse allegations have gotten out of hand, but my initial suspicion that there is much more to this particular story still stands.
Normally in an auto accident the reporters would mention whether alcohol or drugs were involved. Why not this?
on Feb 4th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
There you go with another one: drunk driving!
These are all modern bogeymen you are talking about. They are insignificant social problems that have been blown terrifically out of proportion to advance various social agendas. From 15 different kinds of “abuse” to “secondhand smoke” and “drunk driving,” they are all products of The Culture Wars with no basis in science and very little basis in fact.
Merely repeating such scary stories or calling attention to them damages one’s reputation for clear thinking.
It just annoys the hell out of me to see you giving any space to this stuff.
on Feb 4th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
When did I write about drunk driving? Sheesh, you’re hallucinating.
It’s still a hometown blog, sorry our piddly local news does not interest you up there on Mt. Olympus.
on Feb 4th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
‘insignificant social problems,” really? What does it take to be significant, Max?
I believe that half of all auto deaths in MT are single vehicle rollovers, and nearly all of those involve drunk driving. Seems like a real issue and more than a “bogeyman” to me.
I haven’t been regularly accused of unclear thinking, yet (except by Mark T).
on Feb 4th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Maybe Max is right though, Carol. This does have a tacky, sensationalist feel to it. How about a post on bond spreads or something?
on Feb 4th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Doug:
The drunk-driving statistics are bogus. Check out the official definition of “alcohol–related accident,” which is the criterion used to pump up the drunk-driving statistics.
Better yet, just follow the money. Do a back-of-the-envelope calculation. Simply list all the people, businesses (including non-profits), and government agencies that make money off a single drunk-driving conviction.
“How about a post on bond spreads or something?”
Now you are talking. Chat we can use. Last week, I heard a vicious rumor that a certain stable value fund was going to liquidate and pay only 97 cents on a dollar. Therefore, I jumped out and bought 17,500 shares of PIMCO Total Return. I was figuring on keeping those shares for two months. I kept them for two days and jumped out! (Google “Bill Gross Ring of Fire.”) No hope for bonds.
I just spent the last two hours running a technical analysis on the DJIA. I am so freaked out I cannot go to sleep. No hope for stocks.
As Tommy “Titus” Turner used to say, “I don’t know whether to shit or go blind.”
Well, that’s the view from Mount Olympus, which, by the way, is closed because of a financial crisis in Greece.
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Carol:
I still love you, even though you go ditzy on me sometimes.
Say, did I tell you that my dog died just before Christmas? He was 14 years old.
on Feb 5th, 2010 at 7:20 am
Avoid long term. Buy rice, beans and fatback.
on Feb 5th, 2010 at 8:14 am
Not bad, but I was thinking of something more liquid.. some fine whiskeys perhaps. A little more concentrated wealth than you can get from rice and beans. And something that people will always need and pay for.
on Feb 5th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
[Second try to get around the spam blocker. I took out the S-word and the love note to Carol.]
Doug:
The drunk-driving statistics are bogus. Check out the official definition of “alcohol –related accident,” which is the criterion used to pump up the drunk-driving statistics.
Better yet, just follow the money. Do a back-of-the-envelope calculation. Simply list all the people, businesses (including non-profits), and government agencies that make money off a single drunk-driving conviction.
“How about a post on bond spreads or something?”
Now you are talking. Chat we can use. Last week, I heard a vicious rumor that a certain stable value fund was going to liquidate and pay only 97 cents on a dollar. Therefore, I jumped out and bought 17,500 shares of PIMCO Total Return. I was figuring on keeping those shares for two months. I kept them two days and jumped out! (Google “Bill Gross Ring of Fire.”) No hope for bonds.
I just spent the last two hours running a technical analysis on the DJIA. I am so freaked out I cannot go to sleep. No hope for stocks.
As Tommy “Titus” Turner used to say, “I don’t know whether to s**t or go blind.”
Well, that’s the view from Mount Olympus, which, by the way, is closed because of a financial crisis in Greece.
on Feb 6th, 2010 at 11:11 am
Max, I liberated your comment. I don’t know why Akismet is flagging them. Maybe it knows something about you - ? I am sorry about your dog.
Anyway I don’t doubt your stats about DUI, and in fact have come to the conclusion that practically everything we hear from the media is mostly bogus hype, press releases and petitions for funding by this and that agency or nonprofit. Notice the crusade the Lee papers are on now…but merely alluding to drugs and alcohol does not make me a dupe or hysteric either.
In the case of Mr. Bassett I suspect 30+ years of psychotropics with possible extracurriculars. He himself said he had been drinking the night before. Which was his right. But it will affect one’s outlook.
I think much of the craziness we see today is Rx drug-induced. It is Hunter Thompson Rule: Assume they are high. Definitely applies to pols as well.
on Feb 6th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Carol:
There are too many interesting subjects in your above comment for me to address them individually at length. I am only an armchair psychologist-sociologist, but I must say that I have spent an inordinate amount of time writing on those subjects over the last 10 or 15 years.
I think you have it straight about the modern news media. This is not the electronic global village McLuhan had in mind. It is more like a virtual medieval town, where charlatans and wide-eyed nutcases wander the streets telling idiotic tales that every simpleminded villager accepts as truth.
On the drugged-out society, I will make one comment: I am seeing more and more evidence of it, also. But most of the behavior I am seeing appears to be related to anti-depressants. I am seeing more and more people with what can only be described as no personality. They act and speak as if they are locked in slow motion.
In Hunter Thompson’s world, his friends were usually babbling at the speed of light, a hyper-society rather than the hypo-society I am seeing.
PS: Our old dog had been going downhill for about a year. First, he lost most of his mobility in his hind legs. So we carried him from one place to another. Then he started eating less and less until he was nothing but skin and bones. In the last few days, he stopped drinking water. Finally, he just let out a painful yelp every half hour. The vet said his kidneys had quit.
I wanted to shoot the dog and bury him in the field next to our house where he used to hang out. But my wife wanted the vet to kill him ($130 vs. 50 cents). Then she had the dog cremated and had his ashes returned in a jar ($80 vs. nothing). So I have a good idea of what female pet lovers are like.
One last thing about killing pets: Have you ever tried to kill a kitten? Their bones are like rubber because they are so undeveloped.
Many years ago, a friend gave my wife a very little kitten. I drove the car home. When we pulled into the yard, my wife had a bunch of things to get out of the car, so she opened her passenger door, put the kitten on the hood of the car, and went around to get her things out of the back seat. Meanwhile, the kitten walked along the edge of the hood and tried to get back into the front seat by going between the doorframe and the car body. And, yes, my wife slammed the passenger’s door right on the kitten’s neck, crushing it flat.
But the kitten did not die instantly.
Got the picture? A real horror show, right? Now I have a hysterical wife and a kitten flopping around with a crushed neck, cranium, etc. What is a man do? It is a 40-minute drive to the vet. Well, I will not tell you what I had to do to put the animal out of its misery quickly, but I can tell you it is not easy to kill a kitten without the right tools.
on Feb 9th, 2010 at 7:42 am
Wow, looks like real estate in Missoula is great! (Pay no attention to the 80% foreclosure increase):
http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_acd1ca38-1475-11df-a2af-001cc4c002e0.html
on Feb 9th, 2010 at 9:04 am
Yes been meaning to blog that…now’s the time to buy!
on Feb 9th, 2010 at 11:35 am
The picture says it all: Retarded people looking at a tarpaper garage somebody is selling as a house. No hope for Missoula.
on Feb 9th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
$174,900 for a shack?! That’s a sucker’s deal.