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when i was a young lad my dog, susie, was ran over by a car driver. i was 9 years old, and i still remember standing by the side of the road crying for my friend. the giant car did not stop,he knew he had killed my dog. since then i have looked at car drivers as having no soul or conscience. i realize now that it is very hard to stop; then i think, if that driver had taken the time to stop my life may very well have taken a different path.

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I truely do sympathize with the lost of your freind, I really do. Had your dog been on a leash from the start, he wouldn't have gotten run over. I realize as a child you didn't or couldn't understand this.
Would it of made you feel better if the driver had killed himself or someone else while avoiding your dog..? Would this of of satisfied you..? Try placing the blame were it belongs and don't you think its time to accept the truth..?
Again I know how hard it is to loose one best friend, I've lost several over time.
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If I really knew the answer I'd be rich.
TnDriver

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tnDriver; are you blaming me? there was miles of open highway, and we were miles from civilization. is not the essence of spirituality forgiveness. i find it easier to forgive others than myself. maybe the driver did not realize his terrible deed, he should have been paying attention. the highway was straight line disappearing in the horizon. i hope the three of us meet in heaven, and go fishing together; the car driver,susie and myself.

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TNdriver,
Eaymoney said he/she was a child when this happened. A child's mind doesn't comprehend the ramifacations of swerving to miss an animal. A child just knows a dear friend is gone and a car driver did it. It is sad when death touches a childs life in anyway. But death is a lesson we all learn. It is one of the things in life we cannot change.
Easymoney I hope you will take the time to get to know the drivers here. You will find that for the most part thety are good hearted people. They too have felt lose and anger.
It may have been that the driver was too afraid to face the look in a childs eyes after killing that childs pet.
I hope you find your friend again in the next life.
Angelia
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Easymoney let me pose this senario to you: 3 years ago a wife and mother of 2 swerved to miss hitting a dog in front of my house. This woman lost control of her car and died. No animal (including pets) are worth the life of any human being. As far as the car driver stopping......I don't know if I could if I hit an animal.....it would break my heart to see the damage I had done.

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AngelFace you missed something in his original post.
>>. since then i have looked at car drivers as having no soul or conscience. i realize now that it is very hard to stop; then i think, if that driver had taken the time to stop my life may very well have taken a different path.<<
He blames car drivers for the path he has chosen in life... He has openly stated this and it is unfair for him to blame caring or car drivers for his demise.
I believe he needs therapy to help deal with obvious tramatic childhood experience. He is still mourning the death of his dog and is blamimg the driver for his attitude or failers of life.
Lets say for arguement sakes the driver did stop... Then what..? A child isn't going to listen to the driver telling him he's sorry. Sorry isn't going to bring the dog back to life. Instead all the driver is going to get is a bunch of flack most likely cussed out and listen to a buch of hatefull insults to add on top of the knowledge of killing a childs pet. As I said before, the whole thing was unfortunate, but you don't play in traffic and not expect to get hurt or killed.
I had personal experience with an incidence simular to this back in 1988.
I hit a beagle dog that belonged to a very nice lady. She had gone to check the mail and had not latched the gate when she returned. The beagle being a tracker by nature was only paying attention to the smell of his owner. The dog ran out in front of me and even with all the attempts of trying to avoid hitting this dog, I still hit it with my pick up. The owner ran out when she heard the dog screaming and literally lost it right there in front of my on the side of the road. Apparently the dog belonged to her deceased husband and was all she had left of his. He had just died 2 months previous. All I could do was just stand there and say I'm sorry. I came close to tears myself watching this woman loosing it in my presents. She didn't blame me, she did understand and I was thankful for that and she did realize that she left the gate unlatched after getting the mail. She only asked me to take the dog away and bury it for her because she wasn't able to deal with it on her own, she was still mourning her husbans death.
I'm not sure who felt worst, her loosing her deceased husbans dog or me for killing the poor critter. I know it was a long time before I was able to travel down that particular road or go fishing which is why I was on this road to begin with.
So please don't tell me how insensitive I am. 11 yrs later I still think about it everytime I see a beagle running around. All we can do is deal with it.
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If I really knew the answer I'd be rich.
TnDriver

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easymoney649:
I'm sorry to hear about Susie.
TnDriver:
Did you ever consider stopping in and seeing how the old woman was, AFTER you hit her dog and found out she was alone?
Perhaps the passing of the last thing to remind her of her husband, in this way, was an opportunity to open new doors to other possabilities in a new life, without the ties to her previous existance.
But, of course that does not take into consideration the legal and financial possabilities of the loss of the dog.
You must have been feeling rather "mean"
to lay into easymoney649 the way you did.
e-mail if you want
Hugs to most, that need them.
Ma
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One time a few years back, I was driving down a highway in the dark, and it was raining really hard. Just ahead, a cat came running across the road, and I was hoping that it would keep going, but it didn't. It just stopped in front of me and faced the car and squatted down. I still remember those eyes glowing in the head lights at me, but it was impossible to do anything. I understand how you must have felt, and possibly some other kid felt about their kitty that I ran over, but there was just no practical way I could do anything. Even stopping to find out the owner was out of the question. As long distance drivers we see a lot of carnage out on our nations highways, including people as well as animals, but it is unfortunately one of the price's we pay for living in a high tech, fast society. Anyway, I do understand.