Italian accused of eating 15 cats

[rainforests1]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-adopting-black-cats-to-eat-them-9091349.html
A year in jail seems to be a slap on the wrist to me.

 

[Clueless Git]

That's 24.333 days per cat.

 

[shyvas]

I'd be surprised if they sentence him to jail.

 

[Calliegirl]

Is this supposed to be a satire newspaper? Most of the stories on that site seem to be sensationalistic and ridiculous and look like they are attempting (and failing) to write satire.
Please excuse my ignorance if this is something everyone already knew except me. I'm used to quality satire from The Onion.

eta: It looks like the cat story is true, but most of the other stories still seem a bit absurd.

 

[Blobbenstein]

The Independent is a good paper....what other stories seem absurd?

 

[Calliegirl]

It's hard to take a newspaper serious that prints the story of a police captain reporting a home infested with hundreds of demons, children walking on the ceiling and floating around.

It reminds me of the Weekly World News and their batboy stories.

 

[Blobbenstein]

well, if you can't report the news, what can you report?

 

[rainforests1]

If you do a Google search many sources report about this story. I don't think it's fake.

 

[shyvas]

If you do a Google search many sources report about this story. I don't think it's fake.

Sadly there have been many known cases where people have eaten cats. I remember a similar story on the other forum where a man ate feral cats.

 

[Clueless Git]

Something just occured to me ...

It would be interesting to be able to monitor the rate of pet abandonment in Italy whilst this story is fresh in pet owners minds.

My bet would be that the rate will be significantly down for a while.

 

[Calliegirl]

If you do a Google search many sources report about this story. I don't think it's fake.

I edited my response a few days ago to say that it looked like the cat story was true.

 

[Danielle]

it's bad, but I think it's hypocritical for omnivores to hate this man. They eat animals, just not cute little kittens.