Wow! They're Really Good Guys!

Nope.  Not the Onion.

The New York Times.

“At one point there were six or eight people under my car looking to save this cat,” she said. “As much as some people were honking and looking to get where they were going in a timely manner, it was kind of beautiful to see.”

The kitten jumped from one spot to another beneath the Toyota, eluding its rescuers.

Ms. Cassone flagged down a police car.

Fortunately for the kitten, the officers were from the Police Department’s Strategic Response Group, trained, the police said, in counterterrorism tactics and “advanced disorder control.”

  NYT

Counterterrorism and advanced disorder control. Very specialized (and no doubt costly) training. "Fortunately for the kitten."

After supervising the relocation of the car — it ended up in Ms. Cassone’s driveway around the corner on Sherman Street, the kitten still stowed away — Officers Christopher Rinelli and Kenia Marte strategically tried to locate the kitten.

“I got on the ground and put my hand under the car behind the wheel and started feeling around,” said Officer Rinelli, 28, a five-year veteran of the force. “I figured the closer I got to where the cat was, it would start meowing louder.”

Periodically, Officer Marte would honk the car’s horn or activate its alarm, hoping to flush the kitten out. No luck.

The officers determined that the kitten was behind the left rear wheel.

I would have just waited it out instead of scaring the bejesus out of it, ensuring it would stay out of reach.   Maybe offered some cat treats as a lure. Obviously I have not had advanced disorder training.

That was some serious strategic cat locating they did there. Fortunately for the kitten.

“I can’t reach the cat without taking the wheel off,” Officer Rinelli said.

He and a neighbor jacked up the car and took off the rear driver’s-side wheel. The kitten was perched near the gas tank.

Officer Rinelli grabbed the kitten, a 2-month-old female, by the scruff of the neck and pulled her out. “She was kind of agitated,” he said, “cold and wet and scared.”

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The care displayed by the officers, Ms. Cassone said, “made me proud to be a New Yorker.”

Officer Rinelli said: “This is exactly what I signed up for the department for, to help people that need help. And animals, of course.”

Fortunately for the kitten.

I won't.  Perhaps it was a very special cat.

Hmmmmmm.

But a very cute kitten was rescued from behind the wheel of a car.