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The Brooklyn Paper reports on a 7-year-old cat that was trapped in a narrow shaft in a Carroll Gardens apartment building, three floors below where it was supposed to be. It took over two weeks to get it out, but that's not was garnered the story so much attention. Turns out Rumi, the cat, was just fine, but Chris Muth, the cat-sitter, landed in a mental hospital during the ordeal! His medical records were brandished with the words: “bizarre delusion [that he] was trying to ‘save’ a cat of his friend." See, to rescue the feline he had to partially rip apart not one, but two apartments -- and during the second one (the one he didn't have permission to access) he was taken away to the psych ward of Long Island College Hospital. Luckily, NYC's Animal Care and Control finally rescued Rumi, who was trapped for a total of 15 days...as for Muth, he was held for 6! Update: Muth has lost his job, his house and his girlfriend over this!
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Oh nice, someone is unlawfully reading medical records.
That's one dedicated cat sitter.
There has to be more to the story. How can some one be sent to a psych ward for 6 days for trespassing?
This guy rules. \o/
I can has crazy?
The cat wasn't trapped for two weeks, . Chris Muth didn't call Animal Rescue for quite sometime. The owners didn't care about their cat. Muth threatened the super of the building after holing up in the illegally accessed apartment he broke into. The real heroes are the Animal Rescue team who eventually caught the cat humanely.
Chris should've stayed in the psych ward for a while, usually you do that if you have a breakdown, no?
Oh yeah, if you are renovating an apartment, it's not a good idea to have a cat there, if you happen to be catsitting...they might just disappear down a hole.
Muth needs help.