I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
KTVU News
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Animal Control was asking for the public’s help Tuesday in finding the man they say deliberately killed two cats that belonged to a homeless woman who is well known along the Embarcadero.
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But on Monday afternoon at Pier 14, Animal Control says for some unknown reason a man approached the woman and threw her belongings into the Bay.
"She started screaming, people heard that, then he picked up the cat carrier with her two adult cats in it and hoisted that into the Bay," said Captain Vicky Guldbech with Animal Control.
Fire crews launched a boat to retrieve the woman's belongings. One cat was found dead inside the carrier and the other cat is still missing but presumed to have drowned.
Bad enough to throw a person's belongings, all they own in the world, into the Bay...but to brutally drown living creatures, who did nothing to harm him but brought this woman pleasure and perhaps the only love she ever found? When did this world become so cruel, so callous?
Maybe it's just not worth it any more.
NOTE: Thank you for the kind words. I didn't want this to turn into a referendum on mental illness (though there seems to be some sort of serious short in the wiring of anyone who would do such an act). And I'm feeling a bit better, thanks to both your words and some Thanksgiving wishes I found when I logged on Twitter, including one from a very special person to me. As Paul and John (Beatles, not Apostles) wrote: Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on...