4chan saves cats

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Perhaps some of you have heard about this.
Some kid posted a video on youtube of him beating his cat. It was quickly removed, but many had watched it and people had already posted it on other sites. Now, 4chan may be a bunch of losers who have ruined more than few lives and pissed off many more, but as shown by all of the 'lolcat' pictures they have produced, 4chan loves cats. This video obviously crossed the line with them. 4chan tracked him down within a couple days, leading to a facebook profile. They contacted local authorities (as well as sending him many death threats, of course) and now the kid is in shit. They also released his phone number/address to the internet.
http://boards.ign.com/teh_vestibule/b5296/177082693/p1
That explains some of it.
(A message to this guy from 4chan):
To the masked individual and cameraman in the video I have the
following message. I don't know who you are, we don't care what you
want. If you think you can pay ransom, I can tell you we don't want
money. But what we do have are a very particular set of skills; skills
we have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make us a
nightmare for people like you. If you turn yourselves in now, that'll
be the end of it. We will not look for you, we will not pursue you. But
if you don't, we will look for you, we will find you, and we will van
you.
Just google something like 4chan cat abuse if you want to read more.

I hope they really make this kid (+ the cameraman) regret this. Even if the law restricts his punishment from being anything much, the people at 4chan will surely put him in a world of pain.
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