Posted on 07/16/2002 3:21:27 PM PDT by 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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OK, since I found you of all people lurking here, I just gotta ask:
1. Are you offended, amused, or serenely indifferent to names like "Clowntoon", "Billzebubba", etc?2. Is your wife planning to run for President in 2004?
3. Are you going to have any of the stuff from the White House installed in your liebrary, or keep it all at home?
The phrase "ran over" is normally associated with driving, not walking.
This AH did it as a party prank in front of his friends, and they thought it was cool. Talk about neutered males. Was there not a single grown man in the crowd?!?
I hate cats; but I would have kicked this 'tards ass!
They have not begun to fix the pain they created...they leave messes for everyone else.
Certainly that is true. I didn't say that they did fix the pain. However if they have a chance to apologize, that is the only thing they *can* do.
The good news is, that in spite of the pain, God can help those left behind to heal. Including you. He only waits with open arms for us to quit rejecting him. However it takes courage:
"When Jill stopped, she found she was dreadfully thirsty? She listened carefully and felt almost sure she heard the sound of running water.
Jill?looked around her very carefully. There was no sign of the Lion; so she plucked up her courage to? look for that running water.
?she came to an open glade and saw the stream, bright as glass? [A]lthough the sight of the water made her feel ten times thirstier than before, she didn't rush forward and drink. She stood still as if she had been turned into a stone, with her mouth wide open. And she had a very good reason: just this side of the stream lay the Lion?
"Are you not thirsty?" said the Lion.
"I'm dying of thirst," said Jill.
"Then drink," said the Lion.
"May I-could I-would you mind going away while I do?" said Jill.
The Lion answered this only by a look and a very low growl. And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.
The delicious rippling noise of the stream was driving her nearly frantic.
"Will you promise not to-do anything to me, if I do come?" said Jill.
"I make no promise," said the Lion.
Jill was so thirsty now that, without noticing it, she had come a step nearer.
"Do you eat girls?" she said.
"I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms," said the Lion.
"I daren't come and drink," said Jill.
"Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion.
"Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer. "I suppose I must go and look for another stream then."
"There is no other stream," said the Lion.
What a powerful illustration this is. We thirst for God. Christ invites us to come and be filled by Him. Yet, fearful of the risk we turn away from Him, still thirsty. GK Chesterton said it well: Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men and women live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter and with their hand on the doorlatch they die outside.
That was from C.S. Lewis' "The Silver Chair" and a little commentary which was found here when I looked for that excerpt from the Silver Chair. (I could sit here and type it from the book but that takes too long).
A Slice of Infinity.
I know, that sounds cliche. But I know many many people that would testify to that truth, no matter how old the story is.
Read the story of the crucifix.
You are absolutely right. It means nothing in that case. Repentance doesn't mean saying you're sorry, "repent" means to turn away from and go in a new direction. I am perfectly fine with never hearing the words "I am sorry" but instead reading it in people's actions.
They were all human, weren't they?
Well, I tried every way I could to get to understand you a little better, but apparently, you don't want to be understood.
So, now you need to stop complaining about no one understanding you or your faith.
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