About 45 minutes ago I was driving along Acres Lane in Stalybridge and I saw the cat above attempt to run across the road in front of my car. I braked hard which gave the cat time to reconsider and head back to the pavement. The car behind must have seen what a near miss it was and to my disbelief as I looked through my rear view mirror I watched the cat embark on suicide mission part two - this time it was successful and I saw the cat go right under the car. I immediately stopped in the hope the cat may have been lucky and avoided the wheels, as is evident from the photograph sadly this was not the case.
The evil creature responsible for killing the cat did not even make an attempt to stop to see the condition of the cat he had just run over. Unfortunately I did not get the registration of the car but it was a silver Japanese looking car - possibly a Honda Civic. If the motorist responsible happens to stumble upon this article I have one thing to say to you - you are pure scum and I hope the same thing one day happens to you!
58 comments:
That is tragic. People who accidentally kill domestic anmals should have the decency to stop and find the owner of the animal before driving off.
I remember when my cat was run over - it took her three days to get back home with a broken pelvis and maggot-ridden fur. Luckily, she pulled through and has now made a full recovery.
I know the feeling Tom. My dog got hit by a car when he was a pup but thankfully after a week in the animal hospital in Swinton he pulled through.
I was hoping the cat was going to be just stunned as I saw it lying on the road but I was filled with dread as I walked over that it may have been seriously injured but still alive and where the humane thing to do would have been to put it out of its agony. There is no way I could have done it. Thank heavens I didn’t have to face that trauma.
Disgraceful and cowardly behaviour driving off.
But not being able to finish an animal off when it's in agony is pure self-indulgence.
Please that picture is gross. Could you show one instead of the cat in happier days?
This brings to mind an incident on King Street in Dukinfield a few years ago. In broad daylight some pigeons were gathered on the road and a callous car driver went straight for them without braking. One was hit and left in agony at the roadside and I had to quickly put it out of its misery with a stick to the head. You learn to think the very worst of humanity through its indifference toward animal welfare.
Looks a bit like Blackie. He's buried in my front garden.
I think the picture should stay to show the wicked nature of the car driver who drove off without even having the compassion to stop.
You see! A lot of folk don't like cats because they kill the wild birds.
Blackie became a loved member of the family. Cats can be very cruel, they play with the birds before they kill them.
A cold killer in your living room.
The Cat!
Have you got site problems
According to the RSPB cats kill 55 million birds in the UK each year.
TC, what do you think of cats being used for vivisection for scientific and medical research? In my view it's entirely justified.
Yes! that's the down-side of having a cat.
Rare British Birds being killed by cats.
There's too many dogs and cats in society.
Anonymous!
I've got sight problems.
I think, that, cat owners should take on board the risk to the rare Bird population, when their cat is roaming the streets.
The trouble is, that you can't keep cats locked up in the house all day.
Some people do have cages in their back garden for their cat/s.
Tragic and sad story TC; I Hope these quotes put the smile back on your face.
The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison."
He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.." - Oscar Wilde
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second.... if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response.
"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop
"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." - John Bright
"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb
"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." - Samuel Johnson
"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." - Paul Keating
"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." - Charles, Count Talleyrand
"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." - Forrest Tucker
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.." - Oscar Wilde
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
Whats that got to do with the F****** cat?
An entirely irrelevant but hilarious digression there
Better than focusing on the Con/Lib joke I suppose.
The simplest solution is to put a bell on the cat's collar.
A couple of other Groucho Marx ones:
"My wife's so bow-legged we hang her over the door for good luck."
"I've worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."
How is a bell going to be the solution? Please explain.
It rings when the cat moves and alerts the birds of its' presence. Many considerate cat owners already use them.
No Muthaf****'s gonna out a collar or bell on ME!
Yes! but most don't hence Millions of rare birds being killed by cats!
if it wasn't for cats your homes would be overrun with mice and rats
But Tameside Council has a RAT problem.
Birmingham Will be Minority British Even with Zero Immigration.
KTR, pray tell how you would ‘finish an animal off’ if you were presented with such a predicament? Bearing in mind this is not the wild west where a cowboy could just draw his Smith & Wesson from his holster and dispatch the stricken beast in a humane manner.
Mark Warren, come on now, you surely you don’t think I will fall for such an obvious attempt at sending me off onto a rant. If cats are used in experiments their suffering will be no more or no less than all the other animals who find themselves in laboratories of torture. If their suffering genuinely does help in the battle to eliminate human disease and suffering then maybe it is a price worth paying.
For the record; I am not a great lover of cats. I have had many a run in with cats in the garden who have been waiting to pounce on unsuspecting birds and of course my now vanished (probably eaten by a cat) field mouse. However saying that, I would not wilfully harm a cat other than by throwing an apple or similar missile to expose their hiding place to unsuspecting prey.
Now this does worry me,!! what the hell has that got to do with a cat!!
So thst's a definite maybe on vivisection then is it.
We should be allowed to hunt cats.
TC, the last thing I had to deal with was a magpie, a nasty, vicious highly territorial bird that, ironically, had been badly savaged by a cat. My neighbour alerted me of this bird in his garden and I went round and dispatched it with my .22 air rifle with a shot to the head. The only occasion I've seen a cat killed was about twenty years ago. It had been virtually cut in half by a car but was still attempting to drag itself forward by its front legs. The man who lived opposite had already got his spade from his garage by the time I arrived on the scene and immediately decapitated the cat instantly ending its suffering.
It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts.
Here are the facts about the three candidates.
Candidate A:
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists.
He's had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 Martinis a day.
Candidate B:
He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.
Candidate C:
He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, doesn't drink or take drugs, never committed adultery and loves animals.
Which of these candidates would be our choice?
Decide first... No peeking, and then look further down for the
response.
Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolf Hitler.
Manchester Eveing News
January 29, 2011
Greater Manchester councils reveal how they spent £250m of your money.
Today 31st January 2011 was the last day for Councils to inform the public in order to comply with new rules for any spending over £500.
Anyone see the TMBC list
Those already released are:
Manchester
Trafford
Oldham
Rochdale
Bolton
Wigan.
Amongst the last in line again for letting the public know.
Can`t wait !!!
Is it true that, Councillor Brian Wild takes the piss?
Is it true that he's claimed back £50,000 in the last two years for his expenses?
You can never tame a cat. When it leaves your living room it becomes a killer.
Holocaust denying David Irving, can you please state the two occasions when Churchill was 'kicked out of office'? Or are you rewriting history again?
Martin Gilbert,
Winston Churchill was kicked out of office (actually, deselected) as MP for Oldham on 12 January 1906.
He was also kicked out of office as Prime Minister on 26 July 1945 at the General Election.
Sorry Martin, it's back to school for you.
0/10 See me.
Could we discuss the Tameside & Glossop PCT which certainly needs
looking at regardless of PCT`s being dismantled in the near future.
These quangoes in my opinion have been a absolute black hole for people filling desks where they are not front line diagnostic people,they treat no-one,they cure no-one,and yet these ever increasing PCT`s have grown with inner groups and committees,and even a job for Ex Councillors,and Top Labour Party Supporters like Dr.Chand who enjoys photo opportunies with local MP`s whenever.
http://www.tamesideandglossop.nhs.uk/upload/Documents/Corporate/Strategies/Tameside%20and%20Glossop%20Strategic%20Plan%202010-14%20Refresh%20Final%20v3.pdf
Before I start making my case with facts and the background to my assertions,I trust this subject may be of interest seeing its your lives in their hands.and the £millions that have been drained out of the NHS to support these paper producers.
Martin, you're not a leftie though are you. You're impartial just like all those other 'modern' historians who write from a pre- accepted and agreed script.
All that cash for that f*****g old p***head?
David Irving,
Thank you for making yourself much clearer than you poorly written comments initially suggested. Indeed, you appeared to suggest that Churchill lost his highest office twice, when of course he resigned as PM on the second ocassion.
If you are including losing office as an MP then you are actually wrong. He also lost his seat in Dundee during the 1920s. So that makes it a hat-trick.
10/10 for bluster, 0/10 for attention to detail Irving.
How Manchester council spent £60m last month
How Trafford council spent £50m in six months
Oldham council's £100,000 frozen food bill
Rochdale council paid £65,000 to marketing firm
Bolton council spent more than £850 on beer for one of its bars – in just one month
Wigan council paid agency £16,000 to design its website
Where`s Tameside MBC list which had to be avaiable to the Electorate by Today.
Don`t tell me they are waiting for split invoices to arrive too lessen the plus £500 declarations.
There is always a way to show split invoices.
Watch this empty space yet for TMBC
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/politics/s/1406701_greater_manchester_councils_reveal_how_they_spent_250m_of_your_money
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/politics/s/1406701_greater_manchester_councils_reveal_how_they_spent_250m_of_your_money
The council with the highest early termination payments in the survey was Manchester City Council, which paid out £4.7million to 416 people, according to the responses from the councils in the study.
Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council spent £2.3million on payments to 192 people,
Three local councils on notice to reveal spending online
Councils have been put on a week’s notice to get their books open for public scrutiny, Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said today.
Last June, Pickles set a deadline for councils to become more transparent by publishing all of their spending data over £500 online in accessible formats, at the end of January 2011.
Within the M60, so far only Trafford Council has committed so far to putting its spending online. Manchester and Salford City Councils and Tameside Borough Council have yet to sign up and must now be considered on notice.
Councils now have just seven days to show their residents that they are ready to be open and transparent about how they spend taxpayers’ money.
A timeline on the Department’s website shows who has put their data online while making it crystal clear which councils are leaving it to the 11th hour.
A draft code of practice is due to be published shortly to help councils get on track.
Councils are expected to put details of senior pay, councillor expenses, tenders and contracts, meetings, and frontline service data into the open so that “armchair auditors” can clearly see the decisions being made on their behalf by the council in due course.
The Department for Communities and Local Government has already set the precedent for councils to follow, regularly publishing all spend data over £500.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said: “I’ve called for every council to become more open and accountable about every aspect of their work, starting with getting all expenditure over £500 online by the end of this month. Transparency can help save money in tough times protecting frontline services, by cutting waste and unnecessary costs.
“The final countdown for councils has begun. In the last six months, more than half of all councils have got their house in order. Today I’m putting those councils still to open up on one week’s notice.
“The public have a right to know how their tax pounds are spent, and those yet to deliver are running out of excuses and time before they have to face their electorate - I hope every council chooses to do so openly, transparently and democratically.”
Year 2011 the time to "GET RID"
Rumour on the street is that Tameside Council has the spending over £500 information embargoed to the local press to have first dibs. Part of the conditions of getting a first look is that the press will go easy on them. This is called controlling the press
However I expect ALL bloggers to be relentless with these bastards over the coming weeks. Tameside Council have had plenty of time to publish this spending. They should be going back a year at least.
Excellent post by CCC. Please keep the info coming.
Martin Gilbert, so first you implied he wasn't kicked out of office, then after being proved wrong you discovered ANOTHER occasion when he was kicked out, and dispute that one of the originals was genuine. That's a total of, according to your reckoning and interpretation, two. Which was the original assertion.
rumour on the street is that TMBC wont be publishing the spend as fat Eric wants them to.
Re Tameside councillor's expenses, at a time of cutbacks and belt tightening for millions of non-fetherbedded private sector workers, these self-serving pigs are going to be exposed for having their snouts, faces and necks in the trough.
I say, one councillor per ward and one paid professional advisor/assistant on a reasonable wage. It would save us a fortune.
Tameside Council have published all spending over £500 going as far back as December 2010. You would of thought that after all the time they have had to publish this data that they would be beavering away to go back as far as much as a year as many councils have done. Apparently not.
http://www.tameside.gov.uk/transparency
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/politics/s/1406856_revealed_how_tameside_council_spent_over_27m_in_one_month
Going through this long list of payments,I feel sure a few FOI requests woulde turn up some questionable groups,organisations,
simply named recipients,and in time for forthcoming elections now is the time to pin the cretins down re the MONEY OUT OF OUR PCKETS,PURSES, AND WALLETS.
Would it possible we could all check the lists and expose whatever ?????
So £25,000 in December was paid to :
Manchester City Football Club Community Scheme.
Come on its the richest club in the world.
Players on £100.000 plus per week.
and little 80 year old Annie from Tameside (ficticious of course) is searching her purse for the price of her food.
Even as a ManCity fan thats a scandal,but I recall the Club shown as one of the Top Councillors interests.
Have only searched the 30 pages for a 10 minutes rapid scan.
Inspired Spaces figure well,don`t forget the TMBC Chief Ex is a Director of Inspired Spaces.
What a bloody carve up this lot will show,but its the apathetic Tamesiders who probably don`t read newspapers or blogs who will again trot off to stick their X Down,whilst the Council falls about laughing.
Where`s the Tory comments and monitoring.
Well my opinion based on 10 years events and observations tell me that the Tameside Tories have been well and truly harnessed behind the scenes,and its time their Leadership was at last outed and joined the Labour Mafia.
Hear no evil,see no evil,seems to ring a Bell.
01/02/2011 16:11
All the Tameside Labour mafia need to do in the whole Borough is hang on to the approximately 17500 morons, scroungers, lefties, a few genuine socialists, the 'community' vote and the working class elderly, in their fifteen or so wards. With their manpower and 'manipulation' of the postal voting system, a truly pathetic 'opposition' and the most crucial fact of all: out of over 170,000 people on the electoral roll approximately 113,000 don't even bother to vote, it's a doddle.
It's a cat !!! Get over yourself . who the heck would stop for a cat ...seriously
why has this cat not got a parking ticket?
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