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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Tue Jun 23, 2015, 02:53 PM Jun 2015

Man bitten by cat gets revenge by killing other cat

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Police-Man-bitten-by-cat-gets-revenge-by-killing-6344297.php

A Sierra foothills teenager who said he had been bitten by a cat was arrested for allegedly taking out his anger on another cat, slamming it on pavement and killing it, police said.

On Friday, police officers in Sonora (Tuolumne County) received a report of the June 15 attack at a local apartment complex, and they later viewed video of the incident, officials said.

The video allegedly shows the cat dying after 19-year-old Spencer Morse grabs it by the tail and slams it down. Officers tracked down Morse after someone called police to report a sighting of his car at a shopping center.

“During an interview with Morse, he admitted to the incident and another incident. He claimed an unrelated cat had bitten him on the finger approximately a week prior, so he had driven to the apartment complex with the intent to locate and harm a cat,” police officials said in a press release.

And is a 19-year-old really a "teenager"?

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Man bitten by cat gets revenge by killing other cat (Original Post) KamaAina Jun 2015 OP

Sounds like something GW Bush would do liberal N proud Jun 2015 #1

Feel better now, punk? City Lights Jun 2015 #2

WTF? irisblue Jun 2015 #3

sick little shithead joeybee12 Jun 2015 #4

If I had witnessed that act... Lizzie Poppet Jun 2015 #5

Sick fuck. smokey nj Jun 2015 #6

Yes, a 19 year old is really a teenager. Glassunion Jun 2015 #7

But one that can be placed in the general population if sentenced to jail. Lizzie Poppet Jun 2015 #8

True, as at 18 you're also an adult. Glassunion Jun 2015 #9

Yes, there's that nasty little "teen" part in "nineteen." Like in "thirteen." Igel Jun 2015 #14

I really hope he didn't get treated for the cat bite REP Jun 2015 #10

Sign of a sociopath packman Jun 2015 #11

Sick, sick, sick. hifiguy Jun 2015 #12

Spencer Morse's country has carefully taught him that might makes right gratuitous Jun 2015 #13

Somehow collective or communal punishment seems inappropriate for Igel Jun 2015 #15

liberal N proud

(60,352 posts)

1. Sounds like something GW Bush would do

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 02:55 PM

Jun 2015

Or let Cheney do for him.

City Lights

(25,171 posts)

2. Feel better now, punk?

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 02:55 PM

Jun 2015

Well, do ya?

irisblue

(33,061 posts)

3. WTF?

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 02:55 PM

Jun 2015

a well rounded response from Morse

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)

4. sick little shithead

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 02:58 PM

Jun 2015

I hope that kitteh has a good place in kitteh heaven.

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)

5. If I had witnessed that act...

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 03:02 PM

Jun 2015

...I'm quite sure I would not have reacted violently...but I can't say I wouldn't have been tempted.

smokey nj

(43,853 posts)

6. Sick fuck.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 03:05 PM

Jun 2015

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)

7. Yes, a 19 year old is really a teenager.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 03:08 PM

Jun 2015

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)

8. But one that can be placed in the general population if sentenced to jail.

Reply to Glassunion (Reply #7)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 03:12 PM

Jun 2015

So there's that...

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)

9. True, as at 18 you're also an adult.

Reply to Lizzie Poppet (Reply #8)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 03:19 PM

Jun 2015

Does not negate the fact that 19 year old is still a teenager.

Igel

(35,390 posts)

14. Yes, there's that nasty little "teen" part in "nineteen." Like in "thirteen."

Reply to Glassunion (Reply #9)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 05:16 PM

Jun 2015

Straddles the underage/majority line there.

REP

(21,691 posts)

10. I really hope he didn't get treated for the cat bite

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 03:22 PM

Jun 2015

And he develops an infection bad enough to cost him his hand or his life.

packman

(16,296 posts)

11. Sign of a sociopath

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 03:24 PM

Jun 2015

or future killer, IMHO. Regardless, a real POS.

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

12. Sick, sick, sick.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 03:30 PM

Jun 2015

Solipsistic asshole with no conscience. I sincerely hope some significant jail time is involved here.

Poor kitty.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

13. Spencer Morse's country has carefully taught him that might makes right

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 04:27 PM

Jun 2015

Are we really surprised that some of our young people have internalized this lesson in an inappropriate manner? We really shouldn't be.

Igel

(35,390 posts)

15. Somehow collective or communal punishment seems inappropriate for

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 05:21 PM

Jun 2015

entities with no communal or sense of being a collective.

Then again, there are a lot of people that do the same thing. Sometimes it's culturally pertinent--blood feuds, whether in Iraq or Appalachia. At other times, it's just a misperception of what's culturally pertinent and assumes that really, we do all share all the same cultural traits.

The kid's a punk.

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