That's horrible -- I had no idea. What a sad story.

So shocking. And I mean that literally, metaphorically, and punliciously. I'm glad his dog survived this, but what a nightmare. It sounds like something that would happen to puke & cry.

But what's cool about this story is the unasked-for help the author receives. A guy with a bunch of groceries volunteers to take a distressed and bleeding dog in his own car to the pet emergency room. A woman offers her own cell phone for the author to use, and goes along on the car trip to help with the dog. An EMT unit stops and helps with getting the dog into the car.

There are times when humans don't suck.

Yeah, I was surprised at how nice and helpful and caring everyone he described was.

I guess there's a point in extreme situations where people start to suck again (every man for himself type things, I guess); but my experience has without fail been that in extreme situations people help each other. Witnesses to car accidents, whatever.

Incidentally, my sister has twice just been somewhere at the right place and time to cradle a person in her arms as they died. One was a woman ejected from her car in an accident. The other was a deliberate hit-and-run of one teenage boy by another. I don't know what the odds of that are, but if you believe in this sort of thing, then it doesn't come as a surprise that she eventually became a minister.

He looks more a Mephistopheles than a Faustus.

In January 2004 a graduate student in New York City named Jodie Lane was walking her two dogs through the East Village when the animals became distressed. She tried to help them, stepped on the metal cover of a utility box, and was killed; her dogs survived.

A coworker of mine was Jodie Lane's fiancee at the time of this incident. It was one of the saddest things I've ever seen.

Good lord. That's so very tragic.

Yeah, that story made me sad. I guess young, unexpected deaths are always startling and sad, but something so unusual and unheard-of? Awful.

How horrifying but thumbs up to the people who stopped to help.

Oh God that's horrible.