The Cat in the Hat
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Sep 17, 2026
Phillip PalmerHOST
Police say this is not the first time the church has been targeted.
Colleen SullivanHOST
Oxnard police are putting out warnings about concerning social media posts involving a threatening version of Cat in the Hat.
Colleen SullivanHOST
The AI-generated videos make references to violence at schools.
Colleen SullivanHOST
Police say they have not identified any credible school threats, but they urge people to report those posts.
Annie FryHOST
You should too.
TrishaPANELIST
Canadian authorities are investigating a series of incidents involving people dressed as the cat in the hat after, quote, an unidentified costumed person allegedly chased a teenage girl in British Columbia.
TrishaPANELIST
Separately, social media posts featuring sinister or AI-generated version of the character have prompted school warnings and juvenile arrests in several U.S. states.
TrishaPANELIST
Annie, are you okay with the cat in the hat? I think Dr.
TrishaPANELIST
Seuss is good.
Annie FryHOST
Cat in the hat's fine.
Annie FryHOST
Did you ever see
Ryan WigginsHOST
the movie with Mike Myers?
NickyHOST
And my first story is from the Daily Record this week.
NickyHOST
Scots have been left terrified after creepy pictures appear to show the cat in the hat roaming streets across the country.
NickyHOST
Images of the mischievous children's cartoon have been spreading rapidly across social media, with alleged sightings reported in Glasgow, Fife, Paisley, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Ayr and West Lothian.
NickyHOST
One photograph showed the Dr. Seuss character lurking on Bonacord Street in the Granite City.
NickyHOST
Fife jammer locations have been flooded with pictures apparently showing the bizarre figure appearing around familiar locations in Scotland.
NickyHOST
One image shows the cat in the hat standing menacingly under a streetlight on Fod Street in Dunfermline.
NickyHOST
Although the majority are believed to be AI, many locals have been left fearing that they are real.
NickyHOST
The
Sean McPhersonHOST
A lot of people have those posters up.
Sean McPhersonHOST
But I'm not sure I'm going to be slipping into the Cat in the Hat outfit this year.
Sean McPhersonHOST
And I think there's been so many things, good and bad, that have happened in the Twin Cities that there could be some ripe fruit for costumes that really only work in the Twin Cities.
Sean McPhersonHOST
And I've got a couple ideas.
Tane DangerPANELIST
You would also though, potentially have to like be huge.
Tane DangerPANELIST
You'd need to take up like a city block or something, somehow demonstrate that.
Sean McPhersonHOST
Baby, I've been huge my whole life, vis-a-vis the cat in the hat outfit.
Sean McPhersonHOST
I could be a data center with a couple of noisemakers.
Conor LawlorHOST
Um, Seán, we're moving on to our next piece of news, and I have a small story that made me laugh.
Conor LawlorHOST
Police investigating after person in Cat in the Hat costume chases teen in West Kelowna? Kelowna.
Conor LawlorHOST
Um-
Sean MeehanHOST
Kelowna.
Conor LawlorHOST
P- police in West Kelowna, BC, say they're looking for someone who was wearing a Cat in the Hat costume who was chasing a teenager walking in the community.
Conor LawlorHOST
Um, now they have not released additional details other than saying the girl was able to get home safely, and the suspect has not been identified.
Conor LawlorHOST
The Mounties have, however, released a photo showing the suspect.
Conor LawlorHOST
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Chris GormanHOST
So giving him credit for Biden's work as Trump usually goes ahead and does.
Chris GormanHOST
Police in British Columbia, Canada are investigating after a teenage girl reported being chased through her neighborhood by someone wearing a cat in the hat costume.
Chris GormanHOST
The August 24th incident appears connected to a social media trend featuring threatening or unsettling cat in the hat videos, many of which appear to be AI generated.
Chris GormanHOST
The costume person had not been identified and police say possible charges could include criminal harassment, assault or threats.
Chris GormanHOST
Similar posts have prompted school warnings and police responses across the United States, including the arrest of a 14-year-old in Colorado over an alleged threat.
Esme RussellHOST
I don't know if Dr. Seuss intended for the cat in the hat to be scary, but I know that the movie...
Esme RussellHOST
That movie is fucking
Chris GormanHOST
trippy.
Austin CrossHOST
Now he says he doesn't want to be a distraction.
Austin CrossHOST
Coming up, why police are warning about social media videos of the cat in the hat.
Austin CrossHOST
And a setback for the Rams' newly acquired superstar.
Austin CrossHOST
Stick around.
Christina ParaskosHOST
The city is controlled by the Rwandan-backed armed group M23.
Christina ParaskosHOST
Schools and law enforcement authorities in the United States have issued a warning against a sinister social media trend featuring the children's book's character, The Cat in the Hat.
Christina ParaskosHOST
The viral trend involves disturbing AI-generated versions of Dr Seuss' character paired with threats to schools or students.
Christina ParaskosHOST
The prank has led to an increased police presence at some schools.
Mike AshquieHOST
Welcome back to ThisWeekInGeek.net, and now it is time to take you into the fall season's, the strange, the weird, more often than not, pretty fucked up version of the weird news.
Mike AshquieHOST
So, this first story comes courtesy of cbc.ca. Police investigating after person in Cat in the Hat costume chases teen in West Kelowna, British Columbia.
Mike AshquieHOST
Police say the costume is not a criminal...
Mike AshquieHOST
Uh, the police say wearing the costume is not a criminal offense, but following a- another person in a manner that causes them to fear for their safety now constitute, uh, criminal harassment.
Mike AshquieHOST
Following a person and causing them fear may constitute criminal harassment, police say, via the Canadian Press.
Mike AshquieHOST
A blurry security camera footage of a person in a black cat costume with a giant red and white top hat.
Mike AshquieHOST
A security camera captured a person in a Cat in the Hat costume on August 24th, where police say they chased a teen girl in West Kelowna.
Mike AshquieHOST
According to the West Kelowna RCMP, police in West Kelowna, BC say they're looking for someone wearing a Cat in the Hat costume where they allegedly chased a teenager walking in the Okanagan, uh, community.
Anderson CooperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
the news that high schoolers are apparently
Philip DeFrancoHOST
being threatened, arrested, and chased in the streets by Cat in the Hat.
Philip DeFrancoHOST
Because the stunt, which actually, it reminds me a lot of the clown stalking incidents from a few years ago, it appears to have begun as a Snapchat meme in Ireland and the UK.
Philip DeFrancoHOST
But there you had high schoolers who were generating these creepy AI photos of the Mike Myers' live action version of Cat in the Hat sitting outside of their schools.
Philip DeFrancoHOST
But one, it soon spread to the US, and two, it's now become more than memes and turned into full-on You've got kids being sent photos of it outside of their homes.
Philip DeFrancoHOST
And in some cases, reportedly the photos do not appear to be AI generated.
Philip DeFrancoHOST
And in fact, at least 10 teens in the States have been arrested already.
Philip DeFrancoHOST
All while you've got cops boosting their presence in schools with them stressing that even if these are meant to be jokes, in actuality, it's harassment at the least.
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