Ceiling Cat materializes at the Olympics

February 17, 2014 • 3:38 pm

Reader Patrick called my attention to this video showing a rare manifestation Ceiling Cat in Sochi. His Felinity was chilling in an Olympic arena when, as this CCTV video shows, the roof came down. (Of course we all know about the many infelinities at the Russian Olympics.)

YouTube gives a bit of detail.

Sochi Olympic cat burglar has eight lives remaining after falling through collapsing roof
CCTV footage captures the moment part of the Adler speed skating arena falls down, sending a feisty feline sprawling to the floor below.

Note that, as is customary, Ceiling Cat assumes the color of Basement Cat when visiting Soviet Russia. This is His protest against the homophobic policies of that country, warning them of a dire fate unless they become more gay-friendly.

The site For the Win explains more:

A black cat fell through the roof at Adler Arena in Sochi, bringing down beams, drywall, and other debris in its wake. Adler Arena is the 8,000 seat venue for speed skating which cost approximately $32 million to construct.

$32 million does not guarantee a structure is cat proof.

31 thoughts on “Ceiling Cat materializes at the Olympics”

          1. That’s one of the glitches with wordpress — paste a You Tube URL in the comments and it embeds automatically; but to put one in an actual post you’ve got to go through several stages.

  3. I saw this on another site. Sure hope the kitteh was unharmed! The amount of damage says a lot about Russian building codes.

    1. Building codes? What building codes? What did that cat weigh, five kilos, max. Crazy. Of course the kitty was in some kind of rafter-looking thing that may not have been designed for anything weight bearing.

  4. That cat did NOT land on its feet. But that is the sweet spot for injuring kittehs as they do not have enough reaction time from that height.

  10. Note that the date stamp shows 03 Oct 2013. That means that if the was, in fact, at Sochi, the building in question may well have been still under construction. The reason I wonder whether it’s actually at Sochi is because the Cyrillic abbreviation in the date should be “Okt”, not “Oct” (who knows – maybe the security cams were outsourced).

  13. Hilarious! But one small remark: what fell with the cat was not the roof, it was the false ceiling(Well, I should know, I’m a Civil Engineer)….

    1. Are you saying that we have been worshipping a false ceiling cat?

      Let the smiting commence!

  14. Jerry:

    Apologies for posting here, but I couldn’t find another way to contact you. Thought you’d be interested in knowing that comments of yours regarding Adam and Eve and quoted in a recent Forbes piece are being discussed at the Strange Notions Catholic website.

  15. That looks to me like those light styrofoam ceiling panels and the thin aluminium frames/rails used to carry them. They are not built to be weight-bearing at all, being just a cosmetic ceiling so the pipes and wires above can’t be seen.

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