What Kind of Person!

[piper]

What kind of person runs over a cat and doesn't stop? That's the appalling act I experienced in Magdalen Street Colchester on Wednesday 3rd April. The car in front of me just before the Brook Street turning run over a small black cat and just drove on. The poor cat was jumping 4ft in into the air and somersaulting several times all over the road, I stopped put my hazard lights on and with the intention of taking it to a vet and getting emergency attention, unfortunately it died as I approached it. I picked it up from the road, the poor cats eye had popped out and his/hers skull was damaged. It was really horrendous to see and I can’t stop replaying the whole thing in my head, I just hope the poor thing did not suffer and it was nerves.

My thoughts are with the lady pedestrian who witnessed all this and then realised it was her daughter’s cat.

RIP little cat.

Edited by piper on Monday 8th April 10:16

Edited by piper on Monday 8th April 10:17

[bexVN]

Lots of people sadly :-(. Awful for you to see that, poor cat only consolation is that it did sound quick for the cat.

[balders118]

Someone did the Same to my cat Nelson about 18 months ago. My neighbour brought him to me not long after he'd been hit. I don't know how people can just drive on.

[pad58]

I'm not a cat person, but this is not nice to see.

[Ali Chappussy]

Just wait until the deer population gets even bigger, run over one of them buggers and you'll have to stop!

[Google [bot]]

Knew I shouldn't have opened this thread.

I like to think they see the cat escaping and think it's/they've got away with it. I saw a similar unfortunate situation as a pedestrian, same thing, the cat ran/limped into a bush with some vigour, by the time I got there it was passed.

Or, more likely, they're s, but s that could do nothing. Not that the s knew that.

[ali_kat]

The kind that pulled wings off flies etc as kids

[neilb62]

bd... Same happened to our Syd last year. My wife saw it happen from the bedroom window...

[Jasandjules]

Did you get the license plate?

As for what kind of person - a piece of s**t who deserves to be beaten to death.

[lufbramatt]

Sounds awful

I nearly ran over a cat once, I did stop and thankfully it was ok. I also nearly had a major accident once just after my test when a puppy ran out of someones house onto a main road, closely followed by a teenage girl who just ran straight into the road without looking and then froze directly in my path. How I didn't run her over I don't know, shook me up pretty bad that one.

However, what worries me is what if I injured a cat or dog, found the owner, would the owner come after me for vets bills? Don't shoot me down for this, as I have my own pets and love them but at the same time I don't want to be screwed for hundreds of pounds worth of vet bills because someones cat has darted out of nowhere into my path. Of course I would always do my best to stop regardless but it is something that nags me.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I love cats, I have 2, but I can appreciate that to some people they are just a non entity. I wouldn't stop if I ran over a bird or a squirrel. If you're not interested in animals much, is there such a huge difference between and squirrel and a cat?

[ali_kat]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

If you're not interested in animals much, is there such a huge difference between and squirrel and a cat?

a cat is someone's pet!!!! And so loved, a squirrel is vermin, but even if I hit one I'd stop to ensure it didn't suffer!

[boobles]

I don't think that the majority of people intend to drive on. They probably knew exactly what they had done but didn't want any part of it. It's terribly sad but I also know what can happen to people who stop & try to help like my step dad many years ago. Same scenario where somebody had run over a cat & didn't stop so he stopped & was bitten by the cat & to cut a long story short, he spent 6 months in hospital fighting septicemia & ended up losing his finger! The cat also died on the way to the vets.

[piper]

boobles said:

I don't think that the majority of people intend to drive on. They probably knew exactly what they had done but didn't want any part of it. It's terribly sad but I also know what can happen to people who stop & try to help like my step dad many years ago. Same scenario where somebody had run over a cat & didn't stop so he stopped & was bitten by the cat & to cut a long story short, he spent 6 months in hospital fighting septicemia & ended up losing his finger! The cat also died on the way to the vets.

Wow! Boobles that is an amazing story, I know what your saying but I would have still stopped, I have to do what feels right at the time and not think what if! All credit to your father though, sorry about the outcome for both.

[boobles]

piper said:

boobles said:

I don't think that the majority of people intend to drive on. They probably knew exactly what they had done but didn't want any part of it. It's terribly sad but I also know what can happen to people who stop & try to help like my step dad many years ago. Same scenario where somebody had run over a cat & didn't stop so he stopped & was bitten by the cat & to cut a long story short, he spent 6 months in hospital fighting septicemia & ended up losing his finger! The cat also died on the way to the vets.

Wow! Boobles that is an amazing story, I know what your saying but I would have still stopped, I have to do what feels right at the time and not think what if! All credit to your father though, sorry about the outcome for both.

Thank you... To make the situation worse, he was a very talented artsist who was actually approached by the people behind "Iron Maiden" to draw them a record sleeve but obviously had to decline because of his finger now missing!


This was many years ago & I have no idea what he is doing with himeself as I hve no contact with him sadly.

[piper]

boobles said:

piper said:

boobles said:

I don't think that the majority of people intend to drive on. They probably knew exactly what they had done but didn't want any part of it. It's terribly sad but I also know what can happen to people who stop & try to help like my step dad many years ago. Same scenario where somebody had run over a cat & didn't stop so he stopped & was bitten by the cat & to cut a long story short, he spent 6 months in hospital fighting septicemia & ended up losing his finger! The cat also died on the way to the vets.

Wow! Boobles that is an amazing story, I know what your saying but I would have still stopped, I have to do what feels right at the time and not think what if! All credit to your father though, sorry about the outcome for both.

Thank you... To make the situation worse, he was a very talented artsist who was actually approached by the people behind "Iron Maiden" to draw them a record sleeve but obviously had to decline because of his finger now missing!


This was many years ago & I have no idea what he is doing with himeself as I hve no contact with him sadly.

Life is so short, when my father left my mother she was understandably so hurt but she alienated myself, brother and sister towards my father. My brother and I were old enough to make our own decisions and we did not hide it from my mother and continued to see my father. My sister was a lot younger and when she had grown up my brother and I convinced her to meet her father, she finally saw him Christmas 2001 after many years, sadly he died tragically in Tunisia 2 months later, she was totally distraught and in his house in Wales before the funeral she soaked up everything about his life she could, it was all very sad. Your circumstances are your business but it’s never too late!
Many thanks to everyone for their replies, I keep thinking about that poor little cat.

[durbster]

I worked in a place once and a bloke turned up late for work one morning. He told us, without shame, that he'd spun his car and crashed into a fence because he was trying to run over a cat. Due to the location it was almost certainly not a domestic cat but still, a first class dhead if ever I saw one.

Thankfully, he missed the cat so all he got for his sick efforts was an expensive repair bill.

[gtidriver]

Im a cat person and if that person worked with me id have put him on his arse. What a fking ahole.

[HOGEPH]

One of my cats was run over last week. Fortunately, (if there is a fortunately), it was instant for my cat, and the driver stopped and left a number for me to call, which made it easier to deal with.

If someone had just left my cat in the road and driven off, I would have been beyond furious.

Knocking over a wild animal is just an accident. A cat or a dog is someone's pet.

[Nickyboy]

How do you know the driver knew he had hit the cat? Cats have a tendency to dart out into traffic between the wheels of the cars.