Sad things thread

[Leroy]

Somebody poisoned my neighbor's dog yesterday. The owners put a flyer in mailboxes around the neighborhood. After their family enjoyed a AAA baseball game, they came back to find their dog throwing up and her hair falling out.

They first rushed the dog to the vet, who asked if the dog had gotten into antifreeze. Next, the family took the dog to a vet emergency room, but her kidneys shut down, and the dog was in such pain that the family put her to sleep. An autopsy showed that the dog had been poisoned.

There's some sick people out there.

Sometimes it is hard not to hate people.

[JL21]

I'm not sure this belongs in this thread, but I found it sad yet beautiful. Scroll down slowly and read the snippets next to the photos.

http://www.dayswithmyfather.com/#/0

Wow.

[Spider John]

One Sunday afternoon my friend and his family came home from buying his 4 year old daughter a puppy for her birthday. The daughter was told to go in the back yard to play with her puppy. My friend worked for a snack company as a route salesman, and drove one of those large panel vans, and on Sunday afternoon would go stock his truck for the next day delivery. He normally would drive forward through the backyard and around the house, but since the daughter was back there he backed out of the drive. Unfortunately, the puppy had run under the truck and the daughter followed.

My life has been remarkably free from tragedy, and I do consider that on occasion and thank God for my blessings.

[phins]

One Sunday afternoon my friend and his family came home from buying his 4 year old daughter a puppy for her birthday. The daughter was told to go in the back yard to play with her puppy. My friend worked for a snack company as a route salesman, and drove one of those large panel vans, and on Sunday afternoon would go stock his truck for the next day delivery. He normally would drive forward through the backyard and around the house, but since the daughter was back there he backed out of the drive. Unfortunately, the puppy had run under the truck and the daughter followed.

My life has been remarkably free from tragedy, and I do consider that on occasion and thank God for my blessings.

That made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. God bless that family, and their beloved daughter.

[heyzeus]

Last night, my great aunt, Lilian Goldman, passed away in St. Louis. She was 99 years old - would've turned 100 in April. The third bout of pneumonia this month is what got her. She was a tough, smart, clever woman.

When she was a young lady, probably even a late teenager, Aunt Lil worked the candy and cigarette counter at a hotel downtown where a lot of the Gas House Gang lived. She dated Joe Medwick for a time - the last NL triple crown winner! She knew all of those guys - the Dean brothers, Hornsby, Medwick etc. Allegedly she had a baseball that was signed by the entire team, but of course my grampa and his brothers used it to play sandlot baseball and it was lost to the ages.

Even when she was in her 90s, Aunt Lil would make something sweet for me every time I came back to St Louis to visit. She knew I loved chocolate fudge, and was making batches for me at age 95. That's just who she was.

In her last few years, she's been weakened by illness and often confused mentally. Death is never a blessing, but it's okay, because I remember who she was and will think of that when I think of her.

[Spider John]

Sorry to hear that Zeus. My condolences to you and your family.