Shroyer eventually rammed a police car, too, telling police that the “cat was telling him to hit the cops.”

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Man Going To Prison, Says Talking Cat Made Him Commit Crimes
UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) – A southwestern Pennsylvania man who claims he robbed a bank, stole a car and rammed a state police cruiser at the urging of a talking cat has been ordered to spend 2½ to 5 years in prison.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports a Fayette County judge also ordered 51-year-old James Shroyer, of Connellsville, to have a mental health evaluation. Shroyer asked for it at his sentencing Thursday, telling the judge he is still “seeing things and hearing voices.”

A criminal complaint indicates Shroyer told police he was urged by the cat to rob the First National Bank in Connellsville. Shroyer eventually rammed a police car, too, telling police that the “cat was telling him to hit the cops.”

Shroyer, who pleaded guilty, must also repay $1,572 to the bank.

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Note in the attached photo how the cat regrets NOTHING:

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I mean... this dude is pretty clearly schizophrenic if taken at face-value? I don't see how he was convicted without having a mental health evaluation in the first place.

Beats me. Maybe they deliver tough justice in Uniondale?

Ah, yes! The old "hearing voices and blame it all on the cat" ploy.

Actually, faking these gross symptoms of schizophrenia would seem like an easy way out to a certain kind of slightly-educated criminal. But a real schizophrenic has many symptoms that cannot be faked.

There's something about the detail of the cat then telling the guy to ram the cops that just cracks me up; like the cat was playing GTA or something.

Actually, faking these gross symptoms of schizophrenia would seem like an easy way out to a certain kind of slightly-educated criminal. But a real schizophrenic has many symptoms that cannot be faked.

Which is why I would have thought they already would have done a psych evaluation on him, making his requested one moot?

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