Status: Real (unfortunately)
A series of pictures showing a woman crushing a kitten to death with her stiletto heels is causing an uproar over in China. The pictures first appeared on the internet and have recently been published by some Chinese newspapers. The woman in the photos has been dubbed the Kitten Killer of Hangzhou, because the background scene has been identified as Hangzhou. I've been able to locate four of the pictures in the series, but I think there are a few more (far more graphic) ones. Here are the ones I found (I don't have larger versions):
The big question is: Who is this woman? One theory is that the images come from a Japanese shoe advertisement. Another theory identifies the kitten killer as a "37-year-old woman from Hubei province with the internet identity 'Gainmas.'"
The London Telegraph elaborates:
She had registered a website in Hangzhou and - the ultimate evidence - had bought a pair of stilettoes on eBay last year. She was also registered with QQ, a popular Chinese message service, where she wrote of herself: "I furiously crush everything to do with you and me." Before her QQ address went dead, its owner had several conversations. In one, she is coy, saying "So what?" when asked if the pictures are of her, and then, when asked again, replying: "In theory." When confronted by a reporter, she became defensive, saying: "Suddenly hundreds of people are on my QQ and cursing me. What's the problem if I crush cats? It's a type of experience. You wouldn't understand."
The Telegraph goes on to note:
No one seems to have suggested the serious possibility that the photographs could be a hoax - created by picture-altering computer software. But in the face of tight control of self-expression, young Chinese are seeking wildly different forms of sensation or satire on the state of society.
Without having seen all the pictures (and better quality ones), it's hard to judge whether or not they're real. But it certainly seems like this has already become the Chinese version of
Bonsai Kitten (with the added twist that it may be real... in which case it's definitely disgusting).
Update: A "Crush" video is circulating around (you can find links to it in the comments, if you're interested) that makes it pretty clear the woman really did step on a kitten. Also, an article in the
Shanghai Daily reports that the lady, and the guy who produced the video, have been identified. The producer, who is a camera operator at a TV station, has apologized. However, the woman, who works as a nurse at a hospital, has disappeared, leading to concerns that kitten commandoes may have abducted her (or something along those lines).
Comments
http://media.snuffx.com/x/red-gru65fhfgrh/mar20/snuffx-dot-com-peta-investigation-in-china.wmv
my fren showed me that vid when i was eating and i puked =.= (anyone could)
one day a sadist would go after her and do the same thing
crushing this and that and popping her eyes out plus squishing her head
(from wad i see in the vid, yeah, its like that)
unsound people go after unsound people
but there' the problem that china has no animal rights, and that's innacceptable. and to mention that is in no way racistic.
Lord Roboboy: in fact, the woman is from china, not japan. 😛
just? is that right??? so if i were to stomp your child in the eyeball...and then use my heel to crush its
body..and crush their head until their eyeball pops and squishes out...it must be a good experience?!?! is
that right??? common comment here!!!!!!
Here's the video...
http://www.consumptionjunction.com/content/detail.asp?ID=54748&type=1&page=2
i seriously dont mean to be rude or techified but its really getting on my nerves. Using a computer to create anything similar to that movie would be highly inefficient for the filmakers/producers, mundanely time consuming and so goddam costly i doubt anyone bar big buck blockbuster standards wud pay for it. it would take months, 24/7 to photoshop a moving image perfectly. and you wouldnt use photoshop, there are hundreds of applications that would do the job.
You got some serios issues if you hate a person just because the color of their skin. How can you judge a person before even seeing them or getting to know them.
What you said can be seen as pretty racist to be perfectlly honest, but at the same time I feel sorry for you because you are narrow minded and from your comments it does seem that you live in your own little world where the majority of chinese people like to torture little animals in their spare time.
China does not have animal rights, but does that mean that just because they have animal rights people won't do it! Don't be stupid. Rape is against the law people still do it, robbery is against the law people still do it. There are just bad people and bad people will just do shit like that.
Anyway I'm not gonna comment on this anymore because there's no point in trying to explain anything to anyone who has ideas set in their heads already.
What heppend in the video is bad, I'm not denying it, but there are worse things happening in the world for us to get so worked up on this few minutes clip. What has been done is done, it can't be erased and it will happen again, so just wacth the clip and just understand that shit like that happens and not turn it into a race thing, as shit like this happens everyday! NOT JUST IN CHINA!
I'm in the U.K and the other week there was a picture in the papers of a dog chained to a tree and set alight! Shit like that just happens.
you're not seriously saying you think bonsai kittens are real are you??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lighten up.
Of course The Kitten Killer of Hangzhou is another kettle of fish (jar of kittens!)altogether.
I agree and have said in a previous post that the whole Crush fetish scene is disgusting (please if you are going to make a comment bother to read the 7 previous pages of postings). I have no desire to watch that video thanks. In fact I find it very odd why anyone who knows this video is going to be offensive would watch it. It
I do find it rather amusing, though, to see that some people still adamantly cling to the belief that bonsai kittens are real.
I can't believe that you took the time and effort to find another copy of the video, especially as you appear to find it so offensive.
-- Posted by llllllllllppppppp on Apr. 03
Well, this is a web-site devoted to figuring out if things are hoaxes or not, so I would have to say that most of the people reading this are.
"Its stil gross to even think about squishing a living or dead or sleeping or paralized cat!!!! Y CANT YOU PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT!!!"
Errrr. . .exactly who are you screaming at? Nobody's said anything at all recently arguing against that. Calm down.
this is definately not the only video that exist of the genre, its on the rise everywhere especially in the UK. It was a big thing in the 80s underground, and only gbecame illegal properly in early 90s. way back in 1994 rspca were arresting ppl left right and centre for the production and sale this sort of thing. In most of those videos the kittens feet were glued to a wooden board, puppies legs were broken, and lizards tails were nailed to the floor!
So no offense, but if ppl ask the question, and dont seem to be able to make a decision over what they're watching, i want to let them no its real and that the problem is so much more monstrous then it seems.
i am a 'crush fetishist' and ive viewed the file, (which someone posted the link above) i am a massive animal lover myself and personally i find it degrading!!
but basicly i'm just writting to say i hope you don't find all 'crush fetishists' sick!! - deep down we all have fetishes (a lot of them are WEIRDER than this).
yet what is strange about someone stepping on a bug (thats my interest).
our attraction, is basicly seeing a 'giant woman' crushing something and most crush fans picture themselfs being the bug (food, cigs etc), its all fantasy and an harmless fantasy.
but yes, when the interest evolves from bug/to animal then something is seriously wrong (with that person).
but its like sex/evolving to rape (for example) theres always people wanting to take something that little extra further and you get that with EVERTHING in life!!
but fortunitly, now laws have been put in place (some years ago) 'animal crush' is very rare in the crush scene (thank god).
but i hope you don't judge all 'crush fetishists' as one on this subject.
if you do, its like your judging everyone who likes having sex (who doesn't) to a rapist, if you get my point.
So no offense, but if ppl ask the question, and dont seem to be able to make a decision over what they're watching, i want to let them no its real and that the problem is so much more monstrous then it seems.
Posted by gericka on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 12:44 AM
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actaully your totally wrong, these videos are on the 'decline' actaully this is the first case in many years!!
you say its a problem in the UK, the UK as had one case of 'animal cruelty' involving crush and that was 2002 (and it was the last case in crush as a whole).
you say 'in most cases' these videos have kittens/puppies in them?? -
actaully past 'animal videos' 90% of the time the creature was mice, most which were produced in the america - in the mid/late 90's,
the 80's (as you say :/) the internet never even existed, so there wasn't a market for 'fetish' of any form.
do some research on something in future.
They tracked down that whore and she lost her job. Not _my_ idea of a right treatment but think she's not doing that kind of thing again.
B-I-T-C-H.
Im sorry if i offended but i feel very strongly about violence against animals and i believe that
it has a direct link with fantasies involving violence with humans.
Im not naive to fetishes, i love the feeling of being tattooed, and am pretty into the whole bondage scene, but by my own choice and my 'willing' partners to involve myself/ourselves in these acts. A person has no right to use a living thing, especially an animal/insect/reptile/anything, which in my opinion has no place in sexual dealings in the first place (this involves zoophilia and beastialities). Its on a par with involving children who have no comprehension of what is going!
As for my references, according to the rspca services, which is only one of the charities i contacted to take this vid offline, have told me that their intelligence leads them to believe that this sort of sick video production is on the increase in the UK. I recieved posts on this subject between the early march and beginning of april. So im getting info from higher sources. And they had 'VIDEO' in th 80s. You dont have to high tech to be able to pass on filth.
Also with the rise of peer-to-peer file sharing networks, the availability and production of crush videos could be on the rise through ameteur producers without any of us the wiser. Iv come across real kiddy porn by just searching for episodes of LOST and Battlestar for gods sake!