Stop Doing This

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Philadelphia meanie (and school district bus driver) Bill Mitchell lobbed three kittens out the back door of his school bus yesterday morning while the Port Richmond neighbors watched. Terri Gerretz and her daughter, who unlike Mitchell are not monsters wearing human skin, ran from their yard to stop him. When that failed, they scooped up the hungry, bug-ridden kitties and wrapped them in blankets, and called 911 with the bus's license plate.

Now, like other yahoos living in this town, he's been arrested and is awaiting trial for three counts of animal cruelty. Maybe other meanies out there showering abuse on animals should remember that we're not like them. The rest of us, so recently smacked in the face with the less-savory side of human-animal relationships by Michael Vick and his former ilk are perhaps a little sensitive. It's not that we'd necessarily lead a mob of angry face-punchers, but we'd think about it.