If you say one word about my pussy - I'll have you arrested!
Posted on 08/23/2006 11:49:41 AM PDT by ShadowDancer
Boy Charged For Meowing At Neighbor Lady
Family Gave Cat Away After Neighbor's Complaints
POSTED: 2:26 pm EDT August 23, 2006
JEANNETTE, Pa. -- Meow. A Pennsylvania judge is being asked to decide whether that word is a harmless taunt or grounds for misdemeanor harassment.
Police have charged a 14-year-old boy with that crime. Michael Loughner is accused of meowing whenever he sees his 78-year-old neighbor, Alexandria Carasia.
The boy's family got rid of their cat after Carasia complained that it was using her flower garden as a litter box. Now, she said, the boy makes meowing sounds every time he sees her.
He said he's only meowed at her twice.
"I've had to put up with this for three years," Carasia said. "As I walk by, I see Michael and his mother. He got on the porch and hid behind the bamboo screen and starts meowing. If I don't make this stop now, they're going to keep doing this to me. I shouldn't have to worry about walking out of the house and being harassed by this young kid."
Loughner said that on July 23 he went out to hold his dog so it wouldn't leave the yard as Carasia walked by.
"She was walking through and she kept looking at us," he testified. "I grabbed the dog so it wouldn't leave the yard. When I put my head down, I meowed."
He said that was one of the two times he's ever meowed at the woman, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review reported.
"As she walked in front of the house, nothing was said," the boy's mother, Sally Loughner, told the court. "He stepped off the porch to make sure the dog didn't get out. As he reached down and got the dog, he said, 'Meow.' ... She said, 'Do you want me to call the cops again?' I said, 'Go ahead, he hasn't done anything wrong.'"
There is a history of disputes between the neighbor, saccording to the paper.
Sally Loughner told the court that she ended up sending her cat to live with family members so that she could "keep peace in the neighborhood."
Defense attorney David Martin Jr. asked that the case be dropped.
"This should never have been filed," Martin said. "This is not something that police should be wasting their time with or wasting the court's time."
The judge heard from both parties Tuesday. He decided to wait 90 days before ruling, saying he'll decide what to do after seeing how the boy and his neighbor get along in the meantime.
Have you ever told that to a cat?
Rereading that as an adult, I have NO idea what I wanted Mom to do.
"Touch your sister right this instant, young man!"
Ew. I detect some therapy resulting from that one.
BINGO!
Aren't you charming?
No, but my Havahart traps have on our farm.
If this happened in my day (70's) the last thing this woman would have had to worry about was a kid saying "meow." Come on kids, get creative with your revenge.
We had an old lady in our neighborhood who had the deserved moniker of "Granny Grouch". Last thing I recall someone doing to tick her off was when a local hooligan put an apple in the exhaust pipe of the neighbor's car directly across the street from her house. It exploded up against her house and an explosion was heard for miles. What a hoot. Old ladies like this are ENTERTAINMENT for a teenaged boy. Come on!!
Well, "catty" at least has the requisite "C" and "T..."
That's just WRONG.
http://www.intriguing.com/mp/: is a "completely unauthorized, completely silly, and completely useless Monty Python web site!" No wonder it led you astray :-)
However, I musy humbly confess - Google searches for "Knights who say ni" and "Knights who say nih" indicate a majority of credible opinions to be on the side of the Knights Who Say Ni!
I am cast down but not broken. I offer you a shrubbery.
OOH! That was "U-N" called for..........
Lol. I hadn't heard that one before.
Thinking back, I remember a similar one. "Mommmmmmm, he almost touched me".
HEAD KNIGHT: Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest... with...
a herring!
[dramatic chord]
If you say one word about my pussy - I'll have you arrested!
That's so true. I once represented a man in a dispute with his mean old aunt over the family farm. Auntie was about 80 years old and had cancer at the time, but she fought over every little detail, and would even create conflicts (like accusing her nephew of stealing every time she couldn't find something) where none existed. I truly believe that putting the screws to her nephew was what kept her going. We eventually settled the case, and Auntie died a few months after that.
Hey!!!!!!!! Are you criticizing the USA?? Whacko...
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