Pirates and Patriots Award to Italian Soldier on Trial for Saving a Dying Mother Kitty, via the Guardian Dec. 22, 2013

Today's Pirates and Patriots Award goes to Italian "Lieutenant Barbara Balanzoni, a reservist who has since returned to her civilian job as an anaesthetist in Tuscany, is charged with gross insubordination. She committed the alleged offence while serving as medical officer at a Nato base in Kosovo."
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/22/italian-army-reservist-prosecuted-cat-life

"She said she found that the cat had been unable to deliver the last of her kittens, which was stillborn, and was certain to die. "If the cat had died, the entire area would have had to be disinfected. What is more, the surviving kittens could not have been fed. So they too would have died and created an even greater public health problem.""

The Italian government has time for this absurd trial on February 7, 2014.