In medieval times, cats and dogs could be tried and condemned for crimes, just like us crazy people. I the late 1730s, a group of printer's apprentices in Paris felt they were being done an injustice by the master's wife's cats, who were constantly begging for scraps and screeching at night. A trial was staged, complete with guards, a confessor, and a public executioner. The unfortunate cats were pronounced guilty and strung up on cat-sized gallows. When the master and his wife got home, the apprentices were laughing hysterically, delirious with happiness.
What a bunch of assholes.
Nicholas D.
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