GS: What do you think of this girl who stuffed her cat in a jar as "punishment" for misbehaving and then posted a pic of

[Snapdragon]

Putting a cat in a jar is unlikely to do any harm to it at all, since many cats climb into jars much smaller than that because they enjoy it. No, she should not have put the lid on and forced the cat to stay in there nor posted the pic to facebook and bragged about it, but unless she harmed the cat while putting it in the jar, I think a year in jail is going way overboard and mostly seems like an overexaggeration based on public sentiment and not on any actual knowledge of cat anatomy or cat behaviour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdEXl0HMf...0HMfjc#t=5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIjdqV_CfYE

Also, that jar is not made of glass. It is made of plastic and if you look at the other pic in that article, you can see that she has made air holes in the top of the clear plastic jar, so the cat was in no danger of suffocating.

Yes, the cat owner is a very unlikable person who probably should not own pets, but the thing she did to her cat was not bad enough to go to prison for, unless she left the cat in the jar for hours on end. She was just being an abnoxious young person who wasn't thinking. I do not think she meant any harm to her cat. The way people immediately want to seriously punish young people for silly mistakes nowadays is disturbing.

People "try and convict" people over the Internet without hearing all sides of the story and completely trust that the info being presented in the article is true and not purposely exaggerated in order to get more readers. I don't know what the appeal is, but I do not think it's healthy.