Cat Lady Kicks Protest Up A Notch, Dons Silly Costume

erickson.jpgIf you read the Herald (poor, poor you), you found out today what Bostonist told you weeks ago: Heidi "the Cat Lady" Erickson is (still) conducting a one-woman protest outside the Supreme Judicial Court (not the Superior Court, as the Herald claims; that court is next door but is not the focus of Erickson's demonstration). The delightful picture accompanying the Herald piece also lets you know that Ms. Erickson has, of late, taken to wearing an all-white haz-mat suit with integrated booties and hood while manning her four-sided cardboard box/protest placard. The reason for the suit (which the Herald fails to tell you) is to demonstrate graphically (albeit somewhat obliquely) what her current set of signs says: that the Animal Rescue League of Boston, who cleaned the many dead and live cats from her Charles Street apartment, is "defrauding the citizens of charity" (we don't quite know what that means, but that's what her sign says). Erickson told Bostonist yesterday that Animal Rescue League employees testified against her at trial, saying they got ringworm from handling her cats. But, she explained vehemently to us, they were wearing the haz-mat suits (which are used by scientists handling anthrax, she told us) so they couldn't possibly have gotten ringworm. She also told us that the Supreme Judicial Court is holding her four cats hostage, and she told us their names, which included "Fluffy" and "Mr. Bunny," if memory serves. Planning your own surreal, semi-coherent protest of the state justice system? You can get your Tyvek suit here.

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  • Mary Box

    You can't be 41710 serious?!?

  • ed

    the more i look at that cat the cat lady in the picture is holding the more i am convinced it is not a cat at all, but an ALIEN BEING COME TO ENSLAVE US ALL. it also reminds me of a gremlin before they get wet and evil.

  • Chris

    On behalf of the employees of the Adams Courthouse, I would like to thank you, Bostonist, for your (accurate) ongoing coverage of the Cat Lady's shenanigans. Only Thursday afternoon while lunching outside we were speculating as to CL's new fashion statement.



    We were way off.



    Thanks again.

  • i'm engaged, but if i were single, one of the things that would turn me off from a potential mate is if s/he read the Hearald on a daily basis. that paper is crap.

  • cambridgeist

    what is wrong with the herald? they seem to do some good reporting on cronyism in the public sector like with the massport bonuses, etc.

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