NEWS: Wal-Mart Kitty Murder Leads to Shelter Payoff

CULTURE: Wal-Mart Kitty Murder Leads to Shelter Payoff

More bad publicity for Wal-mart comes from Evansville, Indiana, where a former employee faces felony charges for shooting a kitty. The judge reinstated the animal cruelty charge against Christopher S. Anderson, which had been dropped to a misdemeanor. The judge ruled Anderson could not be charged with a misdemeanor unless he had beaten the cat rather then shot it.

A truck driver said he saw store employees placing what the dead animal in shrink wrap a day after he heard workers joking about shooting the cat.

Prosecutors did not file charges against the Wal-Mart store as they said he had not ordered Anderson to kill the cat. Hardin's attorney says the charge against Hardin will be dropped, after he enters a pretrial diversion program. Part of the agreement requires Hardin to do community service work for the Humane Society or Evansville animal shelter, the attorney said.

In keeping with their company policy of throwing money at bad PR, Wal-Mart is planning to donate $10,000 to both of the area animal shelters. As a Wal-Mart employee myself, I can vouch that is says expressly in the policy manual "don't shoot neighborhood cats with our pellet guns."

Hat tip: Vegan Porn

That's just horrible.

Send him to prison and he can tell the other felons he's in for shooting a cat with a pellet gun. He'll be someone's bitch for sure.

HEADLINE: Wal-Mart Employees Can't Afford Proper Guns.

I hope the NRA gets to hear about this.

I'm sorry about the cat.

Fear will keep the local kitties in line...fear of this superstore. Why does all overkill smell like small penis syndrome?

so that's what happened to the kid from gummo..

Indiana is evil.

So, you can't beat the animal, but it's ok to shoot it with a pellet gun and let it suffer for a day before finishing it off. It's horrible what people get away with on technicalities.

no, it said he would be charged for the felony of shooting it instead of the misdemeanor for beating it.

either way, it's just not right.

but it's all ok since wal-mart is now gonna donate money to the animal shelters.

what a effed up world.

Peaple, peaple Lets not jump to conclusions here.
There's always two sides to a story, maybe the cat was acting suspicious?

Gotcha... that wording confused me a little. And again, it's just the Wal throwing money on a problem to make it go away... it's funny what you can cover up with a little green.

yea i mean cats are sneaky little bastards. thats why own dogs.

yea i mean cats are sneaky little bastards. thats why own dogs.

I think the punishment should fit the crime. Shoot that asshole in the balls with a .22LR and let him live with that for a day before unloading on him with said .22LR.

If it was Florida, the guy could say he felt "threatened" by the cat.

i think it's really great to have a guy who shot a cat to volunteer at an animal shelter

[Edited on May 16, 2005 by Firefly]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!

HA!!

"every time you masturbate God kills a kitten"

Every time God masturbates, man kills a kitten...?

This brings to mind the phrase "Turnabout is fair play".

I rescued a kitten while working at WalMart....other employees were trying to throw him into the trash compactor to "teach him a lesson".

AMEN~!

Wal-mart gets freakier and freakier.