Man Arrested For Burning Kitten on Grill

AP/CNN | 7-16-02 | my favorite headache

[My Favorite Headache]

Man arrested for burning kitten on grill July 16, 2002 Posted: 4:03 PM EDT (2003 GMT)

A neighborhood friend of Sherry Scott holds the kitten they named 'Lucky,' in a recent handout photo.

LIBERTY, Missouri (AP) -- A man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly burning a kitten on a barbecue grill as several other people stood around and watched in amusement.

A witness pulled the scorched, 7-week-old tabby from the hot coals, but it was severely injured and had to be put to death, police said.

"They kept saying, `Meow, meow,' and they were poking at it with a stick," said Sherry Scott, who burned her hand grabbing the kitten.

Charles C. Benoit, 24, was charged with animal abuse, punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. He was jailed on $10,000 bail.

Jim Roberts, spokesman for the Clay County prosecutor's office, said he does not expect anyone else to be charged, because no witnesses could identify the others.

Scott said that on Friday night, she saw 10 or 12 people at the barbecue grill in the courtyard of the apartment complex where she lives. Scott said she asked what they were cooking, and they said it was a cat. She said the group taunted her, daring her to rescue the cat.

She said the group scattered when she threatened to call police. She said she pulled the kitten from where it had been shoved into the coals at the back of the grill. Its tail, whiskers, fur, eyes and throat were scorched.

"I called him Lucky because I thought I got him out of there just in time," she said.

Scott said she and other residents stayed up Friday night trying to nurse the kitten with an eye dropper of milk. But animal control officers decided that because of its respiratory injuries and inability to swallow food, it had to be destroyed.

"If you would have seen him, you would have cried," said Sheri Simpson, one of the residents who helped care for the kitten.

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[Ben Bolt]

If it has a value to you , do you think in your spare time you could possibly hone the skill of being relatable ?

Just thinking out loud but it is a benefit that might help . On the other hand it wont help you if you dont see the need .

Speaking for myself now , The last thing I ever want to become is the sweetest grape on the vine . Good day Ms .

[Ben Bolt]

I especially like your last paragraph . Far to often folks tend to stab at each other for the sole purpose to put them down .

Frankly I prefer the humble approach for several reasons . To often I see the above , and in the end what is left is a tragic waste of human capital . It is a damn shame that genuine talent is shot to waste in this way , When some of us have the ability to nuture others . To step outside of ourselves .

[Ben Bolt]

Hey ,
You been reading my wife's FReepmail from this woman ? 'Ya nailed it .

[Tennessee_Bob]

Uh, no. You should have asked before making that assumption. I think of God as an engineer who constructed the big project of the universe, but does not micromanage the details. The evil that happens in the world is not due to the perversity of God, but of man.

So we come back to the question I asked back in post 663. Which laws do you keep?

[Tennessee_Bob]

Your martyr complex is showing.

All I asked for was clarification on a couple statements you made.

My goal is a good and honorable life,

I believe if you keep God's laws, the label you apply to yourself does not matter.

So, what laws do you keep, and what do you consider to be a good and honorable life?

[Tennessee_Bob]

My goal is a good and honorable life,

I believe if you keep God's laws, the label you apply to yourself does not matter.

So, what laws do you keep, and what do you consider to be a good and honorable life?

Pop psychobabble now to cloak your rude intrusion into what I have told you is MY business?

Yet you feel comfortable going into other threads and dressing folks down for their beliefs. So tell us, what are yours?

[auggy]

"Sad thing is is that there are some FR members who would think this a fine joke. "

Hopefully, very few would. It is a sickening thing to read about, but not nearly as bad as reading about the killing of an unborn baby and how he is tortured to die. This is definitely a sick society.

I love kittens, but not as much as, a baby.

[shaggy eel]

Are you insisting that a text written in a preindustrial, prescientific era and copied repeatedly must be error free because someone sometime said it was the word of God?

,,, what deems the preindustrial, prescientific era any less credible? Surely, anything past that time was open to a degree of manipulation as well, if not more so.

[Terriergal]

Sad thing is is that there are some FR members who would think this a fine joke.

Like... who? Seriously.

[Terriergal]

It is a sickening thing to read about, but not nearly as bad as reading about the killing of an unborn baby and how he is tortured to die.

How DARE you turn this into an abortion thread!

;-)

[Terriergal]

So tell us, what are yours?

She's afraid we're gonna make fun of them like she does of ours.

[shaggy eel]

Belief in witchcraft. Belief in all manner of evil spirits.

,,, oh, so that's stopped now, has it?