Walmart Employees Charged With Shooting Cat - On Manager's Orders

[matcom]

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Two Wal-Mart employees who police say followed a manager's orders to shoot and kill a stray cat have been charged with federal animal cruelty.

The men, both assistant managers at the Supercenter, were arrested and released after a court appearance Wednesday. Christopher Anderson, 29, and Jeffrey Hardin, 21, told police the store's manager ordered them to get rid of the animal that was living in a storage trailer behind their store.

All managers potentially involved in the incident have been suspended without pay pending an internal investigation and could be fired, said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Sharon Weber.

"We were outraged when we learned of this incident. This kind of action is completely inconsistent with the way we do business," she said.

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

Store manager Darrel Weitzel told police he had told some of his employees to get a gun and get rid of the cat after attempts to coax it from the trailer failed, according to a police report.

Anderson and Hardin were scheduled for a hearing Jan. 4.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4035165/detail.html

[MemphisTiger]

1. Whatever happened to saying "shoo" and swatting at it

with a broom? I'll bet they have memberships to the NRA and were just using the cat for target practice for their new assault weapons.

[China_cat]

5. Whatever happened to naming it

'employee of the month' for pest control and working off the clock.

[Prodemsouth]

6. The Truck driver and the guy on your avatar Gov Dean could be a

member of the NRA. In fact Dean is a member of the NRA and was Endorsed for Gov by the NRA. The NRA says don't use animals for target practice. You could be kicked out for doing that.

[MemphisTiger]

11. Even the NRA has more of a soul that these loons who

shot the cat. Nice.

[Eurobabe]

2. whatever happened to calling animal control??

or taking to a shelter??

[ixion]

10. same result, really

but I understand your point. That would have been the 'official' way to proceed.

The only group with a license to kill are our elected officials. :eyes:

[slor]

3. Yeeehaaaa...!!

We can all be Cowboys, or should I say Catboys, when the chimp is in office!

[DS1]

4. This kind of action is completely inconsistent with the way we do business

Of course it is, Wal*Mart Corporate would have put it on a treadmill and made it help power the lighting system until it collapsed, then skinned it to make a doormat, and used the meat for wing sauce samples in front of the deli, after cutting off the feet and selling them as rabbit's feet.

No wonder they're pissed.

[Phentex]

7. Nuff said!

:thumbsup:

[Dr Strangelove]

8. The Cat

was probably a union organizer in disguise

[DS1]

14. They only thought it was a Union cat, when it

refused to run :evilgrin:

/couldn't resist

[msanthrope]

24. you owe me a keyboard n/t

[RebelOne]

9. You can bet when all the animal rights activists get

through writing their letters and calling the prosecutor's office, the judge is going to throw the book at these idiots. I sure hope they get a maximum sentence. Anymore, animal cruelty is not taken lightly in the courts.

[Sporadicus]

12. My Sister is Gonna Be All OVER This!

She lives a couple of miles from the Wally-World in question, and has been a very vocal animal-rights advocate for many years.

[logosoco]

13. I hope this store is overcome with RATS (and i mean the real kind, not

these walmart employees).

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

15. And herein lies the big lie of this article:

"This kind of action is completely inconsistent with the way we do business"

[moez]

16. Come on!

It was a CAT for Christ's sake.... it's not like they shot a dog or something.

[RebelOne]

17. But it was a living, breathing creature.

What difference does it make what species it was?

[moez]

19. Actually, you're right. I should have clarified.

It is indeed wrong to kill a living, breathing creature. However, studies have shown that cats are, in fact, soulless masses and void of anything that we know as "life" - essentially nothing more than a fuzzy rock...

However, if it pleases you, maybe they should have just winged him...

[NashVegas]

18. 3 Cheers for That Truck Driver

for reporting the freaks.

[undergroundpanther]

20. Glad I wasen't there..

I hate animal cruelty and stupid people.

[Allenberg]

21. well...

If you think about it, animal cruelty and stupid people haven't been found to seperately exist.

[flvegan]

22. Huzzah! That was perfect.

[dean_dem]

23. This kind of action is completely inconsistent with the way we do business

"Yeah, normally we're used to killing mom-and-pop stores and decent wages! But definitely not cats!"