A lot of bad things happen in this world, and for the most part, they're pretty easy to ignore without even trying.
But sometimes you just have to make a stand, sit down at your computer, and click a Like button on Facebook to let the whole world know that you are against putting perfectly good tabby cats in wheelie garbage bins.
Even as you kill time, there are dozens of groups popping up on Facebook to protest (or in some contrarian cases, praise) a 50-year-old bank teller who was busted by CCTV incongruously dropping a cat named Lola into a garbage bin. Britain's closed-circuit television isn't called (by critics) "Big Brother surveillance" for nothing, you know!
Still, with an undisclosed number of cameras located throughout towns and city centers operated either privately or by the government, CCTV isn't alone in finding the woman. Thanks to the Internet, the woman isn't just identified, she's well on her way to a full-on meme -- whether she likes it or not. Why, she's just like disgruntled JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater, except everybody loved him. Her, not so much.
"Britain's most hated woman" is now under police protection after she was identified in CCTV video posted on YouTube and Facebook, reports the U.K. Sun. Lola, meanwhile, reportedly remained in the bin for 15 hours, until her owners finally heard the yowls.
Lola's infuriated "fur parents" posted the CCTV video taken from cameras they installed around their home, and soon enough, the woman was found. But not arrested. Turns out dropping a cat in a bin isn't against the law -- though the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) is reportedly looking to have words with her.
Certainly a lot of questions remain to be answered. Mainly, this one: In the age of kitty-obsessed social media, in the most video-surveilled country in the world, what would possess a lady walking down the street to briefly stop in order to coax an unsuspecting tabby cat with a few dubious strokes, then grab it by the scruff and toss it in a garbage
bold fail.
I know I can always get that here lol
