Norman the cat
Some men apparently need all of the attention, even when they’re competing against a cat for a woman’s affection.
Trial began in New York on Wednesday for former New York Mets minor leagurer Joseph Petcka, 37, who is accused of kicking his girlfriend’s cat to death. The prosecutor told the jury that the cat, named Norman, died a very painful death: broken teeth, broken ribs, a broken leg, a torn tongue and massive internal injuries.
Petcka “killed Norman simply because he was an angry, jealous and and drunken bully, Assistant District Attorney Leila Kermani said in her opening remarks, according to the Associated Press.
If convicted, Petcka faces up to two years in jail, but that isn’t enough. Norman’s owner, Lisa Altobelli, a Sports Illustrated writer, said Petcka had complained six weeks before Norman’s death that she “loved that cat more than you love me.” With a jerk like this, who can blame her.
As you can tell from the photo, Norman was a sweet cat and even if he did bite Petcka, as the sometime actor — who has appeared in Brawny paper towels commericials and had small parts in “Sex and the City” — claimed, I have no doubt he deserved it.
If Petcka is Norman’s killer, he didn’t even have the balls to tell Altobelli what he’d done. She found Norman’s battered body under her bedside table.
You can read a longer version of the story here What punishment would fit this awful crime?
Mercury News.com
