Caught on Video: Cat Stuck on 20-Foot Pole With Doritos Bag on Its Head Falls, Lands on Feet and Lives
- Posted on May 2, 2012 at 6:02am by
Liz Klimas
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Cat spotted on top of a power pole with a chip bag on its head. (Image: YouTube screenshot)
At first, Johnny Jones of St. Petersburg, Fla., thought he saw a rather large bird with a red beak sitting atop a power pole. Upon further inspection though, the KY Post reports, it was found to be a cat stuck on the 20-foot high pole with a Doritos bag lodged on its head.
Watch the local ABC Action News report:
Jones relayed that the cat had tried to swipe the bag off its head but stopped and remained still to not lose its footing. It is unclear from reports just how the cat got on top of the power pole with the bag on its head.
Jones reached a local police officer who then contacted the fire department to retrieve the feline. When a firefighter reached out to grab the cat though, it wiggled and fell to the ground. It reportedly landed on its feet and ran off — the video footage does not capture this piece of the action though.
Just as this firefighter wrapped his hands around the cat, it fell to the ground. (Image: YouTube screenshot)
Here’s the YouTube video referenced, which was posted last week:
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Comments (55)
vtxphantom
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:23pmThis cat was huffing Dorito crumbs. Keep an eye on your cat. This could happen to him/her.
Report Post »AKDuclos
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:50pmGood grief. This is news? I quit watching MSNBC years ago. Looks like they were right all along. Shoot the damn cat and let’s get on with saving the f$#@ing country. What do ya say?
Report Post »BubbaT
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 6:56pmCat did a triple Lindy before it landed. 9.5!
Report Post »OhSnappage
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 6:23pmThis is your cat.
This is your cat on catnip.
This is your cat w/ a dorito bag over its head, 20 feet in the air, on a pole.
Any questions?
When confronted by his dad about catnip use, and why he had the munchies, the cat only responded : “You alright, I learned it by watching you”
-LOL
Report Post »VinnieSquawker
Posted on May 3, 2012 at 11:29amTHAT is very funny!
Report Post »morest39
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 5:50pmGreat now peta will want to ban Doritos!
Report Post »nomoresocialism
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 2:19pmIt is the new Doritos Advertising program.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 3:29pmHaha, that was my first thought!
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 1:47pmFirst of all the guy should have taken the bag off the cats head.. not grab the cat! If this was a stray, then he probably has used more than one life. I hope he is okay!
Report Post »Danneskjold56
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 1:18pmFor some reason all I could think of was this South Park Episode ( http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/411089/oh-long-johnsoning ) after seeing this story.
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 1:14pmHope kitty is ok, just wonder if nobody had called, would bag have slipped off while cat was backing down the pole? who knows.
Report Post »Severe Starboard List
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 1:10pmAnd the good news part of this story Is? ????????
Report Post »froggy19510
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:54amThat could have been a catastrophe!….Sorry I’m a little off my game today.
Report Post »Hobo Boondocks
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:53amThere’s an important message for Doritos lovers in this: a cat will risk one of his lives for a Doritos snack.
Report Post »Hobo Boondocks
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:03pmAlso, never mix Doritos and Vodka Martinis.
Report Post »garylee123
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:38amThat’s what happens when a cat gets stuck on a pole. It gets embarrassed and covers its head.
Report Post »nelan72
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:28amThe cat used his SNAP card to get it also.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:23amHas any one ever seen a dead cat stuck on a pole or in a tree? I haven’t!!
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:54amPoor Kitty. I just don’t understand how the firefighter could NOT hold on to the cat. I’m sure he was talking nice to the kitty as he approached….the firefighter had on oven mits type gloves….so theres no chance he could have been scratched….but NOT to hold on to the poor cat? I hope he is better at rescuing people.
Report Post »rangerp
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:16amThis is stupid, and is not worthy to be called news.
Someone should have shot him with a .22, and been done with it/.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:01pmThe kitty did have a mommy at one time and she told her baby, “if you are ever stuck-up a pole with a bag over your head & hear a “growling-sound”, jump for your life because it is the neighborhood “T-Rex”
Report Post »***** cat, ***** cat, I love you & Doritos Too….(Tom Jones & my version)
Great story…I laughed so hard with the video to music! Cat On A Hot-Wired Pole in lieu of “Cat on a hot tin roof”, that was a movie with Liz & Paul to inform the younger audience. We old folks know, LOL
TheSoundOf Truth
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:10pmRanger, perhaps you should just turn the .22 on yourself. But you’d probably miss, simian.
***
If you have ever tried to grab and hold a cat, these critters are nimble as all get out and if it don’t want to be held, it won’t tolerate it.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:11pmSorry, Blaze. This is a popular song and it is a PC world. Thank you for the story.
Report Post »horsefeathers99
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:49amIt might have brightened their day, for the firemen to do something from the normal task of fighting fires and rescuing people.
This video has cat’s meowing to the tune of “Silent Night”.
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:02amI know …right? Wasn’t that weird? I thought so.
Report Post »Richard_Cranium
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:12amStupid a$$ cats. At least a dog knows how to get his head out of a doritos bag after eating the crumbs. Useless animals.
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 10:55amActually cats are pretty awsome pets.
Report Post »TheSoundOf Truth
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:15pmYou know something, you are a moron. Cats are actually a lot smarter than dogs. They just are not subservient animals. They domesticated themselves to follow their food supply when mankind started farming for grain.
I am pretty sure that someone put the bag on the cat’s head, maybe by trying to trick it.
But that quote about dogs being ‘so smart” is, biologically inaccurate. I mean, most domestic dogs can’t tell the difference between a carpet and a lawn, and anyone that has ever own a can and a dog will tell you that cats don’t need to be “trained” to use a litter pan. They just seem to do it.
If you even look at big cats – they are smarter, more clever, and have better reaction times than that of the common wolf, and domestic cats are genetically identical to big cats.
I am sorry, but a poodle is just a purely stupid animal.
Report Post »Richard_Cranium
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:48pm@ thesoundofproof…why have a cat? They’re reclusive, they kill birds, they eat and sh*t and if you happen to die in your house they‘re so loyal that they’ll eat your dead corpse. Cats are ugly, mean and useless…not to mention they live in the freaking sewers before they come back to stick their butts in your face while you’re sleeping. F@*K cats.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 3:41pmReclusive? Not sure what cat you’ve met.
Report Post »Birds… yea, sometimes. Mainly they eat mice and squirrels (the latter are annoying screechers, a good riddance).
The rest of your diatribe was about some psycho cat. There are pycho dogs, too, even psycho rabbits.
jespasinthru
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 6:19pmCats aren’t as useless as you think they are. The ancients revered them because they were used to guard the precious grain stores from rats and mice. Even a few rodents could render an entire crop unfit for human consumption, which would have led to famine. In the Middle Ages, the clergy convinced the peasantry of Europe that cats were evil and satanic. So the peasants systematically wiped out most of the cats. As a result the rats thrived and multiplied, brought on the Bubonic Plague, and wiped out more than two-thirds of Europe. So you see, cats aren’t so useless after all.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:32pmThe Chinese believe people who hate cats were rats in a previous life. Jus‘ sayin’
Report Post »RugerHoyt
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:46amWhen I was younger we had a black cat named Buffy (The Rabbit Slayer). We never had to feed her because she always had a rabbit, squirrel, or bird in her mouth and the food was just go bad. She was a great cat. Any way, I used to live in a 2 story house and we had a giant oak tree in our back yard. Needless to say, the squirrels would run the telephone lines from the oak tree to the roof of the house. One evening my dad came home from work and yelled at my brother and I to hurry up and get outside. Buffy had climbed up the latice on the one side of our house and was hiding behind the chimney, picking squirrel after squirrel off. Dad went to go get the ladder to get her down and she just walked over to the edge of the house, jumped off and landed on our trampoline with no problem at all. We even brought the vet over to watch her do this and he didn’t know what to say. She would jump down, we would call her over and he looked her over and said she was fine. Wish they had camera phones back then, def a million plus hit video on Youtube lol.
Report Post »dirtydog1776
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:53amMaybe Obama wanted some change from eating dog meat and was just marinating the cat first…..a spicy doritos flavor?
Don’t get me wrong, some of my best friends are cats…..follow this playful pup, dirtydog1776, on Twitter.
Report Post »donh2
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:44amThere is a 2013 Superbowl commercial to be made in here .
Report Post »CatB
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 11:11amI thought about that also … sounds like a winner!
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:43amThats what happens when kids smoke dope.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:25amLOL, You’re right, I think kitty is an OWS protestor.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:41amHow much did we spend for a stinking cat? I love animals but if a fire department has time to get a cat off a pole, they have too damn much manpower and money. And on top of that, they spent money and will now request a bigger budget next year as little spending sprees like this add up/
Total waste of taxpayer monsy. Just like the fake phony war on drugs and war on terror…Jusr used to pump up those budgets and increase the GESTAPO…..
Report Post »mccracken
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:53amGo back to bed.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:00amIt seems to me the fire fighters make the same amount of money no matter what they are doing. Had they of had another “more important call” I am sure they would of put the cat on the back burner.
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:08amI understand your sentiment. I don’t see a cat who climbed a pole and got stuck. I see a sick, twisted individual, who is practicing for bigger things. I know a lot of firemen. They love animals, too. I can’t begrudge them the feel goods. Much rather pay a fireman to rescue a cat, than the Muslim Brotherhood to bomb me. That’s just me, though.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:10amYea…those firetrucks dont burn any fuel at all. They run on green Obama farts….
Report Post »TheSoundOf Truth
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 12:20pm$10 says if “baddoggy’s” cockerspanial was on the pole he’d be tooting a different tune.
What can I say, on one hand you have PETA who are phoney and are over-the-top with their “save the animals” rhetort, and then there are people like “baddoggy” that are like “F the animals”.
Seeing a cat stranded on top of a 20ft pole and simply leaving it is an act of cruelty that is akin to that of sociopaths. If you were stuck on a pole, I’d just leave you there. Eh, it would most likely be lodged in some rather conspicuous place you and you;d probably like it.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:28amI am a animal lover and I hate stories like this. It seems animal abuse is on the rise and the sick people that torture animals need to be taken away and put out of their misery. I hope the cat made it.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:38pm@ Darls… Kindred Spirit. Your post is spot on. People who abuse animals and children are the lowest life forms . As the song goes… “Bless the beasts and the children, they have no voice, they have no choice”. It’s just heart breaking.
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:14amI am touchy on cats right now. I would guess some yahoo put the bag on the cat’s head. Maybe even stuck him up on the pole. I am missing one amazing cat and have two more who were nearly tortured to death (with electricity). I had three cats. They were all strays who adopted us. The cat who has had us the longest (15 years), came home with two shaved spots (just over her kidney and the underside base of her tail). She was totally messed up. Didn’t believe she would live. She slept 50 hours straight. Didn’t eat for a week. Couldn’t walk. Totally deaf. Have you ever seen anybody after Electro Shock Therapy? I think they thought she was either dead or close enough to it, and threw her out. Richard had a shaved spot, but he’s young and strong. Richu is just gone. Richu was the most abused, but still believed in people. Richu was like a dog. I’m a dog person. I want this serial killer in the making. I’ve got a cage and a cigar cutter…
Report Post »Marci
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:25amThat breaks my heart Spikebu. :( Why do people do this stuff to domesticated animals that are pets?
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 7:41amBecause they come to them? That’s my guilt. I made it so these cats trusted people again.
Report Post »fluffdog
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 8:37amhey Spikebu. I am in Atlanta. You have to keep your cats indoors at night here or they will become coyote food. Maybe coyotes got some of your cats.
Report Post »firstHat
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:44amIf it makes you feel any better, this cat probably got the bag on its own head, spooked itself, and ran up the pole. I have seen my cats do equally silly things and then when they do something extremely stupid and get frightened, they do what cats do when frightened–spook, bolt and climb up anything they can find. I have to be careful about leaving bags with handles around for this very reason. My half-feral will inevitably get his head through the loop and scare the heck out of himself. Off he’ll go with the bag (dangerously) hanging from his neck.
What probably happened here is that a stray and hungry cat smelled food in the Doritos bag, stuck his head in hoping for a treat and when he backed out, the bag went with him. Next on the agenda in that furry brain is to get away and up fast. Thus, up the pole. Poor baby, I do hope he is OK. Folks, keep your cats in doors or put up a Houdini fence for them.
Report Post »mycomet123
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 9:59am@SPIKEBU, Some cats that are overleavely stressed will lick patches of fur off their skin in various places. You sound like you have a caring & tender heart. I hope you were kidding about the cage & cigar—don’t turn into what you hate!
Report Post »PCKaz
Posted on May 2, 2012 at 6:40amUnfortunately, even though it ran off, it was probably significantly injured. Hopefully it got home and to the vet.
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