If you are not a cat person, this story will reaffirm all of your fears. At least I doubt Daniel Pinedo-Velapatino, 21, is still a cat person. Pinedo-Velapatino was allegedly fleeing the police when he stopped to pet a cat. That is how the police caught him in Boca Raton.
Candace Noonan found a man at her sliding glass door who said that he was a landscaper working next door. He asked for some water. He then sat on the ground and played with her cats. The problem is that the police were chasing him after he was accused of taking $2,000 out of a friend’s wallet during a party. Police say that he crashed a Lexus into other cars, including a police car.
Police continued the chase only to catch up with him shortly after his cat fix. Noonan’s husband tried to question him and he attempted to run but police had already arrived. He is now charged with burglary of an occupied dwelling, three counts of drug possession, three counts of assault, hit and run, and grand theft auto, among others.
The cats have been wrongfully maligned, and should sue.
The guy was probably hiding out and trying to wait for police to pass by. Asking for water and petting the kitties were probably an attempt to calm himself and draw time out.
Karen – cats can NEVER be wrongfully maligned.
Meso
Where is the defense? Even “in jest”
I am a cat person.
(music to tune of Short People, by Randy Newman)
Cat people got no reason.
Cat people got no reason.
Cat people got no reason to live!
They got little bitty eyes. And little bitty feet.
Little bitty voices that go beep beep beep.
Don’t want no cat people.
Don’t want no cat people round here!
Whew! The police didn’t feel threatened by cats and open fire.
Good ending for animal lovers.
“I knew a guy who killed his wife and bricked her up in his basement, only to be busted by the screams of a cat he had inadvertently entombed. He wasn’t crazy, though.” – EAP
LOL! I think that is where the term, “caterwalling” came from. 🙂
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
(Yes, I know what the Spelling Nazis are going to say!) Plus, here is a pic of three little kittens who ate a big meal, got to playing and tumbling over each other in the chair, and then crashed en masse into a deep sleep.)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C342C0VUEAArkku.jpg
I thought that this article was going to end with some reference to Trump and this guy’s similar penchant for grabbing a pu$$y. My bad.
That’s probably not even considered a crime for this blog.
“…Noonan found a man at her sliding glass door who said that he was a landscaper working next door.”
~+~
Cat Scratch Deceiver
Never trust a cat.