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Cat Catcher
"Please, Officer, can you get my kitty-cat out of the tree?" | |
Tonight I saw on television a pair of RSPCA officers struggling to rescue a cat from a tree. I know, it's possibly the world's worst cliché, yet it still happens.
The Pussy CATcher 2000 is a truck-mounted device that is positioned against the offending tree before a large net is thrown over the tree,
covering it completely.
Huge fans are started, blowing tornado force winds through the tree, while water from local fire hydrants is added to the mix, driving the now terrified cat into the net or down to the ground.
Also useful for catching squirrels, possums, birds, apples and Japanese WWII snipers who still haven't heard that the war is over.
Prior Art - Tree de-catting device
http://www.mossberg...ts/default.asp?id=3
Higly efficient, if a little noisy. [8th of 7, Oct 13 2009]
How to get a bear out of a tree
http://www.youtube....watch?v=Pa1pIO4_lUY
Probably funnier with bears than cats [wagster, Oct 14 2009]
[link]
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I wonder if there's any possibility of overlap
between this idea and the tsunami one. |
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It never occurred to me. Calling up a tsunami, just to get a cat down from a tree, is a pretty drastic step to take. |
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/ Calling up a tsunami, just to get a cat down from a tree // |
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.... is easily justified. |
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There is a certain amount of Prior Art in this field. <link> |
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[+] for the imagery of a cat levitating on a tornado-like updraft of artificial rain. |
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I'd like to explore just what it is that cats are supposed to have done to you in your childhood, [8/7]. |
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Did a cat eat your homework, or something? |
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I knew this was a Ubie special as soon as I got to "Pussy
CATcher". |
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