<![CDATA[Jezebel: joe petcka]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: joe petcka]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/joepetcka http://jezebel.com/tag/joepetcka <![CDATA[He's Baaack]]> Joe "The Cat Killer" Petcka was back in court today to ask a Manhattan judge for a retrial unless prosecutors reduce the charges against him to a no jail time, misdemeanor offense or drop the charges against him entirely. Petcka's previous trial on felony animal-cruelty charges after he beat his girlfriend's cat to death "in self-defense" ended in a mistrial last month. [NY Post]

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<![CDATA[Cat Killer]]> Joe "Cat-Killer" Petcka, the baseball player-cum-actor whose recent trial over the murder of his girlfriend's cat resulted in a hung jury last Friday, was on The Today Show this morning with his attorney. Petcka's claim during the trial was that he was defending himself against the cat (whose name was Norman) after the cat started to attack him and Petcka had swatted at the cat too forcefully. Matt Lauer didn't seem to be buying it, noting that Petcka is a "big guy" and then asking Petcka if he did to the cat what he couldn't do to his girlfriend. Petcka denied those claims and his lawyer said that, next time around, they hope they can find New Yorkers who "understand." Click the picture above to watch the clip.

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<![CDATA[Oxygen Gets ANTM Reruns • Cat-Killer Case Results In Hung Jury]]> • Oxygen has bought the off-network rerun rights to the full library of America's Next Top Model, including current and future cycles. Episodes begin airing in January. • In South Africa, the banning of virginity inspection for girls under the age of 16 has caused progressives to clash with tribal rituals which are supported by Zulus (including Jacob Zuma), who view the testing as a way to curb AIDS and teen pregnancy. • After five days of deliberation over the Joe Petcka cat-killing case, the judge has ended the trial by declaring a hung jury.

• During the Clinton Global Initiative, the operator of Yum! Brands (which owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC) pledged $80 million to feed schoolchildren through the U.N. World Food Program. • Pénélope Bagieu, who may be well-known to francophile Jezebels as the author of Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante (or "My life is quite fascinating"), wrote a new comic that is being heralded as the French Bridget Jones's Diary. • A man in Kentucky is suing a doctor after he went in for a circumcision and woke up to find his penis had been amputated. • Shada Nasser, the Yemeni lawyer who helped 10-year-old Nujood Ali get a divorce from her 30-year-old husband, says that she is dedicated to fighting young marriage and helping women and children in Yemen. • After authorities in Australia ruled that an 18-week pregnant 12-year-old girl could not get an abortion — even with her parents' consent — until she got a judge's approval, a Supreme Court judge granted the abortion. • Leading bioethicists at Duke, John Hopkins, and Georgetown Universities are debating whether or not pregnant women should be included in clinical trial research. • The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in the Florida Keys has announced that it's reached a settlement with the federal government that will allow them to keep the 50 or so six-toed cats that roam the property. • A new Indian novel, You Are Here, illustrates how some "liberated" Indian women are not true feminists because they define one another by one's relationships to men. • Based on stem cell studies on mice, women who have their first child before the age of 24 may experience the most dramatic reduction in breast cancer risk. • Meanwhile, a new study suggests that low intake of heterocyclic amines (found in cooked meat and fish) combined with a high consumption of omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids may increase the risk of postmenopausal women getting breast cancer. • Artist Annamarie Ho has recreated a Betelnut selling-booth (Betelnut being a light stimulant that is sold by scantily-clad girls in Taiwan) in a New York storefront as part of an art installation. • A new study in sex differences in pain severity has found that women are significantly less likely than men to receive high potency opiodes as well as a greater daily dose of pain killers and women are more likely to complain of inadequate pain control. •

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<![CDATA[ Oh boy: Joseph Petcka, the New Yorker who...]]> Oh boy: Joseph Petcka, the New Yorker who is currently on trial for killing his girlfriend's cat, met up for a chat with the ever-s0 sympathetic New York Post columnist, Andrea Peyser. The two bonded over being the Number 1 and 2 Most Hated New Yorkers and Andrea wondered why people can't forgive him ("He killed a cat! Can't this guy get a break?").Petcka also noted that although he has lost his job and acting work ("cat killer" just doesn't seem to go over well with people, for some reason) he has found love with a new girlfriend who has "an awesome dog." [NY Post]

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<![CDATA[Petcka, Petkiller]]> In testimony that began yesterday, a former baseball player-turned-actor who had a brief appearance on Sex and the City was accused of killing his girlfriend's cat because he was jealous. Joe Petcka is on trial for aggravated cruelty to animals for killing the cat, named Norman, in March of 2007. Petcka's former girlfriend claims that, on the night of Norman's death, Petcka accused her of loving the cat more than him. Norman was found dead under Altobelli's bedside table with broken teeth, broken ribs, a broken leg, a torn tongue, massive internal injuries including a chest cavity filled with blood. [MSNBC]

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<![CDATA[Memo To Men: Women Love Their Cats. Get The Fuck Over It]]> We're extremely sad to report that a player of one of our favorite sports (baseball) who was once a prospect for our favorite team (the NY Mets) and appeared on one of our least-favorite shows (Sex and the City) has been arrested on charges that he beat his girlfriend's cat to death. Gawker kind of sums up our sentiments here, but we'd like to send a warning shot over the bow of that leaking, rusty-ass ship populated by the world's cat-hating, cat-envying men:

Get over yourselves, assholes.

Sex Jock A 'Cruel Cat Killer' [NYPost]
Cat Murderer Reminds Us Why We Only Date Cat People [Gawker]


Related: Cat Murderer Reminds Us Why We Only Date Cat People [Gawker]

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