Keith R. Griffin was charged (on April 7, 2009) with ten counts of possession of child pornography. The 48 year old Florida resident claimed that his cat downloaded the more than one thousand pornographic images detectives found on his computer. Apparently, his cat would jump on the keyboard while he was out of the room and he would return to find “strange things” on his computer.

Mr. Griffin is a daring, creative man. Only baby Jesus knows the synapses that had to fire to concoct that brilliant and eminently believable story, and the courage it took to hand the true culprit over to the police. Who knows why his cat first got up there (perhaps it was in hot pursuit of his mouse) but everyone know that if there are two things cats simply cannot resist, they are pursuing computer mice and downloading pictures of naked human children.

This is not the first time a man has blamed all his troubles on a pussy, and it will not be the last.