The saddest thing I've ever seen

oh god :(

yesterday i was walking down the street in my new neighborhood and saw some commotion ahead. these two guys were carrying a big yellow dog out of the road and they sat down across the street from me, one of them cradling the dog in his arms, just sobbing and hugging the big guy. he'd just been hit by a car a few seconds before and he was a goner. i was just so shaken up, the guy was such a mess, it's basically been bumming me out ever since.

i feel so bad for the guy but people really need to keep their dogs on leashes in the city, man. i don't care how well-behaved the dog is, something might grab their attention and suddenly they run into traffic.

Oh, geez: yeah, I just don't understand people who leave their dogs off-leash in a city. Never mind the law, never mind whether your dog winds up frightening small children, never mind that it usually seems to be done to show off how awesome and well-trained some guy's dog is: how are you going to feel when that happens? I find myself stuck between imagining these people's comeuppance and the fact that the real comeuppance will happen to the poor dog.

Yeah, I was just going to say on the cats vs. dogs poll that owners who don't have their dog on a leash and have this idea that they love their dog so much that it's incapable of doing anyone any harm are especially annoying.

Jeffrey N4uman 1985-2006 Jeffrey N4uman loved customized cars.

As a child, he took his Match Box and Hot Wheel cars apart to customize them with tires and stickers that he designed.

When he got older, N4uman left the games of roller hockey and baseball behind to pursue his love of cars. He attended auto shows around the midstate with his friends. When he got a computer, he went online to sites featuring customized cars.

A few weeks before N4uman turned 21, in February, he got a "real" job and bought his first new car, a black 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt.

"He loved that car," said his aunt, Michelle H0ffer of Hummelstown, with whom he lived after his mother died two years ago. "That was the biggest thing in the world. He did it on his own. He was proud he was going to make the payments, and it was all his."

N4uman died shortly after midnight April 26 when his new car crashed into a tree in the 600 block of Mount Gretna Road in Mount Joy Twp., Lancaster County. N4uman, who was alone, was driving to his father's home in Elizabethtown.

His death, in the car he loved, came as N4uman was feeling the first bloom of success.

He had dropped out of school in the 10th grade after having problems with teachers and school administrators, his father said. At the same time, the family was dealing with the illness of his mom, Lisa Wiest N4uman, who died June 23, 2004.

When Jeffrey N4uman realized he couldn't get the jobs he needed to get the car he wanted, his father suggested he go back to school.

He studied and passed his General Educational Development test "with flying colors," said his father, Sterling Carl N4uman.

"I was so proud of him," the elder N4uman said. "I couldn't ask for a better son."

Many others loved Jeffrey N4uman, too.

More than 200 people signed the register at his April 29 funeral, his sister, Alicia N4uman, said.

H0ffer said the friends arrived at the funeral service in numbers and followed the funeral procession to the M0unt Tunnel Cmetery in Elizabetht0wn.

"There were a lot of kids," H0ffer said. "They lined up and parked in front of the funeral home. We had to stand to wait for everyone to get into the cemetery.

"That breaks your heart, to see those kids just standing there."

Family and friends will remember Jeffrey N3uman as a young man who smiled a lot and wore a hooded sweatshirt or hat. He also will be remembered as the young man who loved to eat.

"He would come over here on the weekends and the first thing he would do was to take his shoes off, go the refrigerator and ask, 'What have you got to eat?'" his father said. "He was thin, but he loved to eat."

Jeffrey N4uman's grandmother Shirley N4uman said he loved the tomato soup his grandfather made. Then she paused.

"There will be no soup this year," she said.

there's this lady I see at the same subway exit every morning and evening. she's always wearing the same clothes and has this expression on her face of waiting. sometimes she sits on the stairs, sometimes she stands outside. I have noticed her doing this for about two months now.

Oh man, the other saddest thing I've ever seen was this mentally disabled guy who worked as a bagger in the Vons near my house in San Diego. He was usually pretty friendly, and chipper and into his work. Anyway, about a month into the big supermarket strike back in '03 I see the dude sitting in a booth in Carl's Jr. just crying his eyes out.

It's one of those moments I wish I could've gone back to and been friendly to the guy.

That Jeffrey N4uman obituary is a heartbreaker.

My parents have some developmentally delayed adults they care for living with them in their house, and one of them, Mike, hardly ever talks. You're lucky if you can get a word out of him. Every morning he looks at the paper and, if a baby died, he reads the obituary out loud to everyone. This is the most talking he ever does. He's part Native American, and his family's from South Dakota. He collects postcards of South Dakota and will just sit on the porch and chainsmoke and look at them for hours.

yesterday i was walking down the street in my new neighborhood and saw some commotion ahead. these two guys were carrying a big yellow dog out of the road and they sat down across the street from me, one of them cradling the dog in his arms, just sobbing and hugging the big guy. he'd just been hit by a car a few seconds before and he was a goner. i was just so shaken up, the guy was such a mess, it's basically been bumming me out ever since.

Oh man why did I read this.

Fuck, I'm sorry Abbott.

Hey, it's no one's fault.

Yeah I don't know what I thought I should expect when I opened this thread. Then I opened the Haiti thread. And now I'm back in this thread again. And. I need some music or something.

Somebody please start a new kitten thread.

It's been cold as hell in Atlanta recently, and the homeless population here is always pretty visible but especially now it's lead to some sad sights.

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Saddest thing I've ever seen was an obese couple being told they were too fat to fly, the woman sobbing uncontrollably and the man being unable to console her.

Koskiniatis then jumped off the cliff and committed suicide.[2] Diagoras lost the game 3:2.

― the most promising US ilxor has thrown the TOWEL IN (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 01:00 (Yesterday)

Last week, a hummingbird sitting on the edge of a feeder, with its lower bill cracked and hanging down, but not all the way broken off yet. Feeding every now and then, but mostly just sitting there.

I mentioned it elsewhere but a month or so ago I witnessed a stray baby kitten get slowly run over by a truck that was creeping forward in traffic and watched it crawl a few feet away afterwards with the top half of its body then give up... SO YEAH, BACK TO REPRESSING THAT ONE. Fuck my morning commute. I avoid that part of the trip now completely and detour (found a faster way to go anyway...)

THIS MORNING: Just saw a dead(?) guy freshly struck by traffic in the fast lane minutes prior to my arrival. As in, I got there and there were people running over to the lifeless body and at least 5 people calling 911. I am not an EMT so I had no other helpful contribution to the horrific event and was forced to be on my way. So that is yet another episode of my apparently deadly commute.

this is up there:

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/Po7i1

seems to be gone.

hmmm, try this one instead.

http://imgur.com/gallery/Po7i1

big surprise, the imgur submitter fucked up and didn't realize it was the photographer's wife, rather than the gf. not that it really makes a difference.

http://mywifesfightwithbreastcancer.com/

damn

fuckin umgur