Dead cats found hanging from trees in Yonkers, New York

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27163855

Dead cats found hanging from trees in Yonkers, New York

Authorities in a suburb of New York are investigating dozens of dead cats found hanging from trees in plastic bags in a small, rubbish-strewn wood.

The cats may have been killed with blows to the head, an animal protection worker in Yonkers said.

Some of the cats had been reduced to skeletons, while others had been killed within the last several days.

The 25-30 cats were discovered on Thursday by a sanitation crew. Some spilled to the ground.

Ernest Lungaro, of the Westchester County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, told the Associated Press that investigators had found a baseball bat, two shovels and a metal pipe near the scene.

It is unclear whether the cats were feral or kidnapped pets.

(continued, NY returning to the swamp?)

[MrJonno]

They need to bring back the death penalty for this
After they have found the cat murderers they can revoke it and have proper rehabilitation but that's an impossibility for anyone who harms cats

[cronus]

They need to bring back the death penalty for this
After they have found the cat murderers they can revoke it and have proper rehabilitation but that's an impossibility for anyone who harms cats

Starts with cats.

[mistermack]

I like cats, but there are too many so this doesn't really upset me. Cats dish out far more grief than they suffer.

And fuck em, they've got it far too easy. I want to be re-born as a cat.

[Strontium Dog]

I want to be re-born as a cat.

After reading this story, I want you to be re-born as a cat too.

[mistermack]

I want to be re-born as a cat.

After reading this story, I want you to be re-born as a cat too. A cat in Yonkers, New York to be precise.

But you're not at all important, apart from being amusing, so what you want doesn't matter.
You just brighten up my day a bit.

[JimC]

I like cats, but there are too many so this doesn't really upset me. Cats dish out far more grief than they suffer.

And fuck em, they've got it far too easy. I want to be re-born as a cat.

Two separate things here. Sure, there is a problem with feral cats, which needs a combination of de-sexing, and/or ethically performed euthanasia.

But this is done by sickos who may well move on to serial killing...

[piscator]

1. It could have been some parents riding around teaching their children safe marksmanship and their rightful place in God's world. (John 12:24)
2. It could have been Seth dialing in a new wildcat 2200-yard cartridge, and the high school kids he paid $0.05/tail to clean up got so nervous about driving around with a pickup bed full of dead cats that they just chucked them the first place in Yonkers that wasn't a strip mall, a pizza parlor, or someone's lawn.
3. A fuckup in the local Mafia communications network whereby Fat Tony never informed Paulie where this week's load of medical waste from the hair dye factory was to be dumped, do to the fact they couldn't use the river no more without the Bosses personal OK.

[pErvinalia]

calling True Detective..

[Gallstones]

Oh this is such bullshit. I don't believe it for a minute. Someone beating cats to death then hanging them from trees in a CITY in New York?
Nah, can't be, city dwellers are too civilized.

Now if it was happening in some smelly, rural backwater I'd believe it.

[laklak]

How many Chinese restaurants in the area? That would be my first question.

[cronus]

How many Chinese restaurants in the area? That would be my first question.

I'm guessing not enough.

[JimC]

How many Chinese restaurants in the area? That would be my first question.

If they found little piles of cat guts and fur, maybe...