I don't know how some people seem to think this is a less-than-horrible act. Some people say those of us who would like to see her severely punished are overreacting. I feel like she should be jailed for about 45 days for this act. I feel like someone who kicks a child, even in jest, should be jailed for longer. People who behave like this are rarely one-and-done kind of people. They habitually do this kind of crap and make the world a worse place for it.
I am appalled at this woman's behavior. That is obvious a very sweet and loving cat to let a stranger pet it and this woman turns around and quite possibly kills it. Being dumped into a trash compactor is near-certain death. She didn't even have any instinctual reaction of doing that, such as having been scratched or bitten. She simply decided to be a right @#&&$&*@*&#*&@&*#*&@.
Maybe I'm dense, but how would the blind person then appreciate their art? Or, unless blinded after birth, know what colors are? I can't see how this would be more effective than giving them a braile key for a set of paints, or colored pencils. Maybe I'm just dense though.