'Cat Bin Lady' still shunned 17 years after viral cat bin video

Seventeen years after Mary Bale was filmed putting Lola the cat in a wheelie bin, the clip's legacy still shadows her life. While Lola went on to live happily and died of old age, Bale-once an ordinary Coventry woman-remains a recluse, unable to leave behind the shame and global outrage that followed those few shocking seconds, and still recognised around the world as the 'Cat Bin Lady'.