Boycott Northlands Car Service

I have heard this as well. I don't understand why people do shit like this (if it's true, and I've also heard it from somebody I trust)

I've never used them (am an Eastern girl).

I could call you guys Nazis but it wouldn't necessarily make it true. I think folks should be careful about spreading rumors like this and affecting someone's business when it may not be true.

The kitten was very lucky, an employee (W) of the Community Bookstore decided to adopt him.

danielle123, you are correct that calling us nazis wouldn't make it true. But this happened and Northlands DID abandon their kitten (W is calling him Red).

Red belonged to Northlands car service, I saw him curled on a chair there a few weeks ago. The female dispatcher said that someone gave Red to them but they couldn't keep him and asked if I wanted him. Last week, for a few days, Red was roaming the block, walking into several stores and hiding under parked cars. Wednesday night (I think) Red tried to climb into a Northlands driver's car in front of the bookstore. The driver dropped Red in the bookstore and told W that they couldn't keep him. He even went back to the office to get Red's carrier.

I saw Red run under a parked car it, he was nervous and almost ran into the street, I tried to lure him out but he wouldn't come. A customer managed to get him out and brought him to me. I took Red and went to Northlands to ask what was going on. The owner? Acted like he didn't know what the hell I was talking about. A driver did most of the talking. Basically, they didn't want Red so they let him wander wherever (on 7th Avenue, a very busy street). I asked them if Red was or was not their kitten. The owner said to leave him there but I refused to leave Red with someone who was endangering his life and had dumped him already. The driver told me that someone in the bookstore said they wanted Red, not true! I told them that it was illegal to abandon a companion animal, and that there was a rescue group set up across the street every weekend, all they had to do was go ask them for help. Instead they let Red (a 5 month old kitten) wander a busy avenue, I'm amazed he didn't get hit by a car.

I'm sorry but that is reprehensible. They had plenty of options to find Red a home, they chose to do nothing.

If anyone has any doubt about the veracity of this story, go talk to W at the bookstore. I've been on this board almost 3 years, a bunch of regulars know me personally. I don't make accusations like this for the hell of it. You can bet your ass that I'm going to open my mouth when someone is neglecting or mistreating an animal.

Flexichick wrote: I'm so glad the bookstore is keeping him. He is totally adorable. I played with him on Thursday last week and fell in love with him (and he has a sister who is equally cute)

Red's not going to live in the bookstore, he's going home with W. Trust me, Marjorie will be very happy that Red's not staying. He thinks he's the King of the bookstore and doesn't take kindly to interlopers.

This is one of the weirdest posts I've read lately.

Was this on CNN? Where was I when the whole town was discussing this kitten?

Kitten killers or not, I don't bother with Northlands car service. A few times Northlands failed to send me a car within 30 minutes at 10 AM on weekdays. I walked right in front of the Northlands office, so it's not like they couldn't find me.

I call Continental and Areceibo car services or hop into yellow taxis.

Caseopele.. I love you.. You are just a straighforward, genuine, caring person.

danielle123 wrote: I think folks should be careful about spreading rumors like this and affecting someone's business when it may not be true.

+1 ( as a general rule )

doesnt mean i want to see kittens harmed though

This isn't an anonymous consumer review site and, if it was, I would have said the same thing. The OP said she heard from a friend - she didn't have any first-hand knowledge. I replied before you posted your post - you had firsthand knowledge - that's different.

danielle123 wrote: This isn't an anonymous consumer review site and, if it was, I would have said the same thing. The OP said she heard from a friend - she didn't have any first-hand knowledge. I replied before you posted your post - you had firsthand knowledge - that's different.

Garfunky posted after I explained.

Don't worry, 8thandPrez. There's still time for the owner of Northlands to try to threaten me into deleting my whole post!

caseopele wrote: [quote=danielle123]This isn't an anonymous consumer review site and, if it was, I would have said the same thing. The OP said she heard from a friend - she didn't have any first-hand knowledge. I replied before you posted your post - you had firsthand knowledge - that's different.

Garfunky posted after I explained.


Your assumption that i had gotten that far into the thread is incorrect.
i responded after reading the first post and Danielles reply to it.
which boils down to boycott this place cuz i heard a rumor

I changed my post after seeing you had some first hand knowledge.

anyone can come online and say
"boycott this place i heard a rumor"
be it the truth or not.

anyone can come online and say
dont shop here that person is a nazi
be it the truth or not.

and as a general rule you would nt want someone who worked nearby endeavoring to harm the store you work at over a rumor or a lie would you ? if your store hired a nutjob who let a kitten into the street without YOUR knowledge should YOU be accountable ? surely there is a driver who works there , has a family, mouths to feed ...who probably still doesnt even know about the kitten or the commotion

theres a saying about how people who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Anastasia Beaverhausen wrote: I trust Caseo implicitly. She wouldn't lie just to cause a business harm.

The op presented a rumor

Caseo presented first hand knowledge about the kitten.
BIG difference

but

incidentally, neither of those statements is a consumer review per se.

even if it was a rumor (which, as others said, Caseo has first-hand knowledge)....just because somebody says "boycott this place" doesn't mean that you have to. You make up your own mind based on what you believe the trustworthiness of the post is. I doubt most of us would think "somebody I don't know said some business sucks, so I will never use them again"....they'd put some thought into it first.

Thank you, darla, ana, mama, and flexi! xoxo

Flexichick wrote: even if it was a rumor (which, as others said, Caseo has first-hand knowledge)....just because somebody says "boycott this place" doesn't mean that you have to.

Good point. It's a free country. People who hate kittens shouldn't have to boycott companies that practice kitten hatred.