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The Associated Press brings the heartbreaking tale of a stolen car taken from near 10th and S Streets NW on Wednesday with a blind kitten inside that needs medical attention.
Two employees from Homeward Trails Animal Rescue were getting ready to take two foster animals to the vet -- a dog, and Wonder, a kitten born without eyes. They said they were standing outside the car at about 4 p.m. for just a few moments, and when they looked up, the car was gone, with the kitten inside.
Anyone who has seen the car -- a silver Audi with Wisconsin tags 858-GXZ -- or especially the kitten, which was inside a gray carrying case, is asked to call Heather Ross at 301-807-5451 or e-mail rocketcanine(at)gmail.com.
UPDATE: The kitten has been found! Hurrah!
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glad to see lolcats has made its way into DCist
Geez, the kittens are the ones that are blind, yet a car is stolen right in front of the employees without them noticing?
All this shows is that there are a bunch of shallow assholes in this world who get off on stealing cars.
I hope they get their karmic comeuppance - and that the kitten is found safe.
poor kitty :(
It was parked in a handicapped zone. Perhaps they towed it.
I find the lolcat to be in extremely bad taste considering the situation. Not to mention lolcats are about the stupidest internet trend since "A/S/L?".
Matvey- I don't know where you got that from, but I live right by there and there is no handicap parking. But there is some super special parking spaces on Sunday available on that block if you are from Maryland.
Damn. That's some cold-blooded shit.
Notice no one mentions anything about the dog. I guess if your breath smells like Alpo and your own nutsack, you don't stand a chance against crippled kittens. All this story needs is Tiny Tim, Mr. Magoo, and an Xmas morning conversion.
blittle: It's a Lebowski reference.
Actually the story is too short to mention, but the dog was outside the car with the humans, so did not get 'napped.
So, you're saying the dog set the whole thing up?
Hi, I'm blittle and I'm lame b/c I didn't catch the Big Lebowski reference.
Oh and did I mention I like to get dicked around by church goers from Maryland? Nothing like spending a Sunday bending over with my pants pulled down to my ankles.
Thank you sir, I'll have another.
So the car was stolen from under their noses? They were actually standing outside the car and someone managed to hotwire it without them even noticing?
... or maybe they double-parked and left the car running while they went inside, but that would be a REALLY stupid thing to do anywhere in the city, much less in that neighborhood.
Oh yeah, Wisconsin plates.
:( Poor Kitty. I hope he's OK and that the thieves are not cruel. :(
I take back my insensitive comment before. Obviously, this kind of clever heist could only have been pulled of by the best, most clever thief, one who comes and goes like the wind, one who could steal your underpants off of your own ass. It could only be..
A cat burglar.
Don't get me wrong, I love me a good lolcat, but I have to agree with demonfafa that this one is in really poor taste. (Though I completely disagree with demon's statement that lolcats are stupid. Okay, they are stupid, but that's the point.)
please make the lolcats go away... I get that kitties do the darnedest things. And it is hilarious when somebody photographs them in the act. But how is that made better by the use of misspelled baby talk? blech. I'd rather listen to America's Funniest Home Videos voiceovers for dad getting hit in the nutsack at a T-ball game.
Don't get me wrong, I love me a good lolcat, but I have to agree with demonfafa that this one is in really poor taste. (Though I completely disagree with demon's statement that lolcats are stupid. Okay, they are stupid, but that's the point.)
Keep the lolcats coming, please (err, pleeze)!
Oh, and more nutsack.
Apparently the kitty has been dropped off at the shelter. No news on the dog: http://www.nbc4.com/news/14896754/detail.html
I still say there's something fishy about this car theft . . . every story says that Ross and her friend were "standing outside the car" and then that they "looked up and it was gone." The intersection of 10th and S is a neighborhood full of rowhouses with almost no retail, no parks where one would let a dog out to do his business, no tourist plaques to read or statues to gawk at ... it's a great place to park for a Black Cat show, and probably not the worst spot to live, but not the sort of place one generally stops to hop out of the car for a quick errand.
So how did they both get out of sight of their vehicle? If they had run into one of the houses for some reason, why wouldn't the article use language that reflects that? Were they maybe visiting someone, or engaged in some sort of transaction, that they didn't want the police to know about . . .?
What do you call a kitten with no eyes?
a ktten
I work with the volunteer and she brought this cat to work yesterday.. very cute, but sad as he kept walking into things! The volunteer is local, her fiance is Wisconsin but none of us would put it past her to leave her Audi running in DC with the door cracked open.
Horray! They found the kitten.