NY police find live cat 'marinating' in car trunk
Aug 10 2010
In this photo provided by the SPCA Serving Erie County, Navarro, a four-year-old cat found ''marinating'' in oil, crushed red peppers and chili peppers in the trunk of a car in Buffalo, N.Y. on Sunday night, is shown Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the agency's Tonawanda, N.Y. shelter infirmary. Buffalo police say officers heard the cat meowing when they stopped 51-year-old Gary Korkuc of Cheektowaga to ticket him for running a stop sign.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Police say a traffic stop led to animal cruelty charges after they found a live cat "marinating" in oil and peppers in the trunk of a car.
Buffalo police say officers heard the cat meowing when they stopped 51-year-old Gary Korkuc of Cheektowaga to ticket him for running a stop sign Sunday night.
They say they checked the trunk and found 4-year-old Navarro in a cage, his fur covered with oil, crushed red peppers and chili peppers.
Police say Korkuc told them he did it because Navarro was ill-tempered. Korkuc was charged with cruelty and released; his phone number isn't listed.
Police say he told them he was going to cook Navarro. Korkuc also told officers a number of things that didn't make sense, including that his neutered male cat was pregnant.
Animal advocates have cleaned Navarro and put him up for adoption.
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Information from: The Buffalo News, http://www.buffalonews.com
That is just nuts!
ReplyDeleteYeah, completely nuts! Everyone knows that a decent marinate needs Worcestershire sauce and garlic powder...what is this world coming to??
ReplyDeleteI don't believe this guy was really marinating the cat to eat. When I was about 8-9 years old there was a weird kid (troubled in modernspeak) in our neighborhood who was malevolent. He put a cat in a neighbor's basement washing machine which killed the cat. The boy claimed the cat was dirty and he was trying only to give it a bath. No one believed him, except maybe his grandmother, who lived in Utah. She was a polygamist.
ReplyDeleteI think the dude in this story was planning to tie the cat to a large bottle rocket, set it on fire, and shoot it up into the night sky.
Of course I could be wrong.
There is a legal issue here, also. The cops had probable cause to stop him because violated a traffic law. But that didn't give them probable cause to open and search his car's trunk unless he gave them permission. Hence, the cat was the product of an illegal search and a lawyer could have the cat suppressed as evidence in a trial for animal cruelty and "no cat, no conviction."
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