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joeybee12

(56,177 posts) Thu Jul 3, 2014, 06:10 PM Jul 2014

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Massachusetts town worker loses job after saving cat in neighboring town

The claws have come out in Phillipston, Massachusetts. Depending on whom you ask, it’s either a case of a good deed being punished, or just deserts for a public employee who regularly abused his authority.

Back in May, former highway superintendent Jim Mackie received a phone call asking him to rescue a cat that had gotten itself stranded in a 40-foot-tall tree during a recent storm.

So, Mackie took a bucket truck out to the scene and rescued the cat, Kaboodle.

"I went up to the top of the tree, grabbed the kitten and brought it back down," Mackie told local CBS affiliate WBZ. "Everyone was happy."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/massachusetts-town-worker-loses-job-after-saving-cat-in-neighboring-town-220439845.html

I guess it's sort of an abuse of his job...and he probably knew it...but to be fired over it????

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Massachusetts town worker loses job after saving cat in neighboring town (Original Post) joeybee12 Jul 2014 OP

Just as a brief observation, sounds like someone wanted him out and used this as RKP5637 Jul 2014 #1

Yeah--to go so far as to punish him for a good deed--I can believe it. Louisiana1976 Jul 2014 #2

Awww shenmue Jul 2014 #3

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)

1. Just as a brief observation, sounds like someone wanted him out and used this as

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Thu Jul 3, 2014, 06:16 PM

Jul 2014

leverage. I think he did a great thing. Many humans don't even give a F about other humans, so caring about a cat is way out of their scope.

Louisiana1976

(3,962 posts)

2. Yeah--to go so far as to punish him for a good deed--I can believe it.

Reply to RKP5637 (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 3, 2014, 06:24 PM

Jul 2014

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

3. Awww

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Thu Jul 3, 2014, 07:18 PM

Jul 2014

Glad kitteh is safe and hope things get smoothed out for for Mackie.

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