LEE KRAMER'S ROOM: With Views

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It's true.

Years ago I was at a friend's home and his cat dropped dead right before our eyes. The cat had been running around the living room and just tipped over onto its side and was...dead. My friend, his wife and I were heading to an event that we didn't want to miss so...what to do with the cat? This was a small town and my friend was friends with the police chief. He called the chief who promptly had a squad car show up at the front door. A police officer placed the kitty corpse into a cardboard box, put the box into the trunk of the patrol car and drove away. All in a matter of 5 minutes.

No one knew what happened to the kitty corpse until I ran into that police chief one day and I asked him how the cat was disposed of. "We have an empty lot in town where there are lots of coyotes and other animals. Whenever we pick up roadkill we toss them into that lot. That's what we did with the cat."

The chief was a Viet Nam vet and had seen some shit. Disposing of a dead cat was a yawner to him.

He seems not to have been very bright.