Posted on 11/22/2017 5:44:11 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Scott Wulff, 61, from Jacksonville, Florida, chased after his dog Astrid - but tragically both of them were struck by an Amtrak train Sunday.
Witnesses say Astrid became spooked by the locomotive's lights and sounds as the train was approaching and ended up running directly towards the busy tracks.
Wulff ran after her in a desperate attempt to capture his dog and pull her to safety.
'I heard the train speeding by, then a loud breaking sound,' Isaiah Boone told People. 'So, I go outside and I see everybody drop down on the ground in tears.' Boone who works as a cashier in a restaurant across the street from the accident scene said he would see Wulff and Astrid in the neighborhood regularly.
'No matter how much or how little he had, he would always feed his dog first,' Boone said.
'He made sure he let everybody know how much he loved her and how proud he was of her. She was his world.'
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And not that it mattered to Captain Hudner or matters to BLM for deeply different reasons, that pilot he tried to save was a black American, the first black naval aviator.
You are most welcome.
I drove to work last week, and there were film crews and cameras set up in Concord at 5:30 AM, and I wondered what the deal was. One only sees that on Patriot’s Day in Concord.
I admit to being irritated at looking up the link to put in my post, I found a NYT article about him, and it said “Thomas Hudner, War Hero in a Civil Rights Milestone, Dies at 93”
Granted, the pilot shot down was black, but...whey the heck do they have to make every single bloody damn thing about race????????????
I am sure Captain Hudner didn’t care the guy was black, and didn’t crash his plane because the guy was black. He did it because he was a fellow American and fellow pilot.
Boy, do I hate the NYT.
“Funny how the owner and dog look alike.”
That ‘phenomenom’ has been observed in sociology (like likes like) for decades.
Yeah. I guess he was at that...
Plain common sense.
A couple of years ago some yahoo was visiting Yellowstone park. His dog jumped into a pool of 200 degree scalding water. The man raced to rescue his dog as onlookers yelled and cautioned him to forget it, a rescue would be too dangerous.
With the arrogance of youthful redneck bravado and machismo, the "rescuer" peeled of his shirt and chided "to hell I won't!!". The fool jumped in after the dog. Within a seconds he realized his mistake.
When rescuers got him out his eyelids had been seared off and his eyes poached pure white. The fool died the next day of third degree burns over 99% of his body.
Darwin is a cruel master. And the dog was never recovered.
This incident is documented in the wonderfuly macbre book "Death in Yellowstone : Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park" (isbn 1570980217).
There's the problem right there.
“I never had a pet I would die for and never will.”
Some folks love their furry friends just as much as their pets adore their masters.
This is a tragic story IMO.
I noticed the blackness of the wingman.
Cool!
Sad. RIP.
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