Hey, get me out of here!
It wasn’t the strains of Turkish music wafting through the center of
the Dutch town of Sneek that raised eyebrows on a recent Saturday, but
the uncanny yowls of distress that accompanied them. What could it be?
Well, the owner of a missing cat knew the sound at once, and alerted
police. The curious kitty, it seems, had become locked inside a local
mosque after Friday prayers. Somehow, it turned on the sound system
used to summon the Muslim faithful to prayer, and broadcast its
distress call. Unfortunately, for cat and townsfolk alike, it took
another 24 hours to track down somebody with a key.
08/07/02 News Headlines from The Christian Science Monitor