Alice’s cat stolen by dirtbags in a black Mercedes

MikeL

MikeL

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What I don't get about this and other pet thefts.. is the amount of great pets that exist for adoption all over. If you really want one, you can just got to the ASPCA or another local shelter.

Hope they get their cat back.
 
budman

budman

General Menace
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Hard to believe someone would snatch the kitty.

Hope to see the cat returned.
 
BiG Chris

BiG Chris

I RIDE RUCKUS
MikeL said:
What I don't get about this and other pet thefts.. is the amount of great pets that exist for adoption all over. If you really want one, you can just got to the ASPCA or another local shelter.

Hope they get their cat back.
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Yeah but with shelters and aspca is paper work, and those animals arent free like one you just litteraly pick up off he street
 
Johndicezx9

Johndicezx9

Rolls with it...
Edit: Mercury station wagon on tape, but they own a tan Mercedes of some kind
Update: local recognized couple on tape and SM Sheriff’s dept contacted again
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Maybe they thought they were doing a good deed, getting the cat out of the cold....
 
ThumperX

ThumperX

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Johndicezx9 said:
Maybe they thought they were doing a good deed, getting the cat out of the cold....
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This is my take too. I’ve had 4 failed ferals get rehomed by people who thought they were rescuing them. Thank goodness for microchips so at least their fate is known.
Really hoping to see the kitty returned home.
 
Escape pod

Escape pod

Capable
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen – George Savile

The hanging of 2 horse thieves in Asheville in 1835
Rob Neufeld, Visiting Our Past Published 7:03 p.m. ET Feb. 20, 2016 | Updated 7:03 a.m. ET Feb. 22, 2016
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(Photo: Courtesy photo)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Editor's note: This is the conclusion of a two-part article. For part one, click here.

When we last saw James Snead and James Henry, Tennesseans convicted of horse theft in 1835, they were sitting in the Buncombe County jail the night before being hanged.

Visited by the Rev. Thomas Stradley, pastor of the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church (now First Baptist), they told him how they’d led a life of sin, drinking, gambling and running about. They had not stolen Elsberry Holcombe’s horse, they insisted, but had won it playing cards.

Stradley was sympathetic. He had escaped a ruined fate when, as a youth in England squandering his parents’ estate, his devout future wife showed him the way out of his dissolution. Now he was a passionate preacher against alcohol.

That same night, 16-year-old Allen Davidson was bedding down in the attic of the Buck Hotel on Main Street (now Broadway), after having traveled with his brother-in-law from Haywood County.

His mind was swirling with what he’d experienced that day. In 1835, Asheville was already an Oz to a Jonathan’s Creek boy.

Davidson mingled in the crowds, stopped in dry goods and clothing stores, peeked into the jail and ended up, he said in an 1898 recollection, in a store where he saw “a rehearsal of the hanging... (A) noose was made, the rope thrown over a beam, it was given a sharp jerk by several men hanging to one end of it... (and) Dr. Hardy pronounced it sufficient for its purpose.”

Witness for the prosecution

Justice had been meted out quickly for Snead and Henry. They were tried and convicted about two weeks before the date of execution.

The only witness for the prosecution was the plaintiff, Holcombe, The North Carolina Spectator and Western Advertiser reported.

He’d been returning home from South Carolina in January, he said, when he’d stopped by the roadside to share the warmth of a fire and a drink with the defendants.

The defendants pretended to be strangers, betting each other a bottle of liquor in a game of cards. They then engaged Holcombe, who couldn’t and wouldn’t play, Holcombe testified; but Henry made himself Holcombe’s proxy and bet Holcombe’s mare — and lost. Holcombe yielded when Snead brandished a dirk.

The defendants rode off. Holcombe went to Asheville and reported the crime, and men pursued Snead and Henry, who were caught in bed 9 miles west of Asheville, despite having given people they’d met fictitious names and false information.

“We are informed,” The Spectator stated, “that each of the prisoners has a wife and children in Cocke County, Tennessee (and) are said, upon good authority, to belong to a band of villains, of about 20 or 30 in number.”

The morning of the hanging, May 29, 1835, “before good light,” Davidson recounted, the “stable bell began to ring.” He went to the square, where thousands of people of all classes congregated and Ann Perkins, sister of James W. Patton, circulated a petition to pardon the condemned, saying, “No son of a woman should suffer the death penalty for the foal of an ass.”

The traffic in the area turned the unpaved roads and square to muck. Davidson found a boy to go with him to the Gallows Field (near what is now Mount Clare and Woodrow avenues), and they saw graves being dug on the hill above the already-constructed scaffold.

A fellow named George Owens tarred his hair and beard and disfigured his face and appeared at the edge of the grave as the devil, scaring off the gravediggers in the hole.

This may be the George Owens, born 1774, whom, Daniel McDowell, sheriff of Haywood County called a “lunatick” in 1815, according to the Haywood County Court Minutes — a charge that cannot be taken literally, for court minutes also show that George served on many juries.

Final minutes

At 2 p.m., Snead and Henry arrived at Gallows Field sitting atop their coffins, riding in a wagon. They mounted the scaffold. Stradley and the Rev. Joseph Haskew delivered sermons. A congregation sang, “There is a fountain filled with blood... Sinners plunged beneath the flood lose all their guilty stains.”

Snead addressed the multitude: “I came to this awful end by early giving way to intemperance,” which led to gambling and idleness. “The first time I gambled, I only cleared 50 cents for three days; the next trip $10, thus increasing” until the winnings were horses and hundreds of dollars. He warned young men in the crowd against such a life.

Henry faced his accuser. “Mr. Holcombe,” he said, “you see the solemn situation you have brought us to, and I hope the Lord will forgive you for it. ... Do you say you did not lead up your nag by the bridle and place it in my hands while you and Snead played?”

Holcombe said, “No, I did not.”

Snead called out to the Rev. Stradley, “I shall leave you friend Stradley, in a few moments; I part with you in a world of sorrow, but I hope I shall meet you in a world of joy.”

Then the end came. Black caps were put over the condemned men’s heads, the signal was given, and the double trap doors triggered opened.

“But,” Davidson recalled, “they did not fall clear down, but only part of the way,” and the hanged men tried to gain purchase with an awful scrabbling with their feet on the diagonal boards of the partially opened trap door.

Finally, there was a loud noise, the door opened fully and George Owens bellowed, “Go-o-one!” — a premature announcement, for the fall was not great enough to snap necks, and Snead and Henry took several minutes to strangle to death.

Two days later, on Sabbath morning, the Rev. Stradley visited their graves and shed tears for the two men and their widows and orphans, feeling a “parental sympathy.”

 
ScarySpikes

ScarySpikes

tastes like burning
ThumperX said:
This is my take too. I’ve had 4 failed ferals get rehomed by people who thought they were rescuing them. Thank goodness for microchips so at least their fate is known.
Really hoping to see the kitty returned home.
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I really wish people would actually check microchips when they try to take in stray cats. When I was a kid I had a cat go missing. It liked to play in the water, and there was a creek in our back yard as well as dogs next door that were both pretty vicious and had killed other animals of ours before. We figured that it either was killed by those dogs or drowned. It was pretty traumatizing for me given I was maybe 8 at the time.

We got a call back around 15 years later, another family had taken the cat in, apparently never checked the cats microchip, and then when the cat started having major health issues dropped it off at the humane society to be euthanized.

This one seemed a lot more malicious though. Glad that they were able to find the cat thieves and return it so quickly.
 
V

ViperThreat

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Years ago, when i was a kid, my neighbor found a cat wandering along the side of a highway - she said it was confused and very scared of the cars. She stopped, grabbed it, and took it home to care for it.

The following morning, our little town was in an uproar about the cat having been "stolen", but it turned out that the cat had just crawled up inside an engine bay for a nap lol.

I wonder if this incident is similar.
 
matty

matty

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ViperThreat said:
I wonder if this incident is similar.
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It was a crazy cat lady:

"Cat lady & partner on video tape came back late Thursday night and took her off the deck where she has been for 16-17 years. Left a note saying they thought she was cold. No number, no name, no address. Didn't get back in contact. Cat has it's own 20 gal propane heater every night in winter, has lived outdoors entire life, deli turkey, love of thousands, etc. Seems lady was known to staff to over focus on Alicia when she came in and bring stuff for her, etc. San Mateo Sheriff's has jurisdiction over Alice's, but where the couple live is in Woodside PD's end of the pool is why it took so long to turn this around once it was figured out who it was this AM... Woodside PD can't charge them -unless it was a dog (go figure, not sure local/state statute or what), but they can be charged with trespassing if they set foot at Alice's Restaurant again. Lady has 8 other cats, PD not sure if she is hoarding or what (this what was told to me.) Make no mistake -they took her under cover of night after place was closed, I saw the video stills and they might as well be making off with cooler full of food or the register.
tl;dr crazy cat lady thought she new better and tried to rescue a cat who lives better & has a better social live than most people do."

https://old.reddit.com/r/motorcycle...t_coast_moto_hq_alices_restaurant_stolen_cat/
 
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