What is the most saddest news story that you've read lately?

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This news story about a police dog here in New Zealand, called Blade who survived Cancer, A pitchfork attack and more than 1000 criminals who died in his police partner's arms of old age recently, made me quite emotional actually, since it reminded me of the fact that my dog Luey had to be put down last year because of a disease, which made him lose muscle tone and his hair.
He was fine though, and it was mostly old age which was the reason of why he had to be put down and not the disease thank goodness.

Anyway here's the news story source link with a photo of him and his handler, when he was alive:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4366742/Salute-to-a-brave-dog-called-Blade

And the story to read here below: 

Blade – the police dog who beat cancer, a pitchfork attack and more than 1000 criminals – has died in his owner's arms.

Since 2007 Blade has been retired, living as a family pet with his handler, Senior Constable Matt Fage from the Wellington police dog section.

Mr Fage said 12-year-old Blade died in his arms early on Tuesday morning. The death, from old age, was "devastating".

"He was a super-loved working partner. He gave 100 per cent at everything and just kept on going."

Blade caught more than 1000 criminals, found a dozen missing people and survived being stabbed with a pitchfork and hit with a machete in his seven-year career.

Mr Fage said Blade almost certainly saved three lives.

In 2003 he and another officer were cornered by a man with a pitchfork but Blade took the blow, surviving because he got hit in his harness. He got a bravery award.

A couple of years later he tracked down a fleeing offender in the Hutt River. If the man had not been found he would probably have drowned, Mr Fage said.

He also helped disarm a man in Porirua holding a knife to a six-year-old's throat, earning a bravery award for the second time.

Mr Fage said Blade would be remembered as a "proud dog".

Since retiring in 2007, he had been treated successfully for cancer.

He got along with Mr Fage's new police dog – Xoset, or "X". "Every day [Blade] still would go out by the dog van – every morning wanting to go. He made as good a family pet as a police dog."

Blade continued to provide a public service after he retired, visiting children at Wellington Hospital. "He was just so tolerant."

Red Shirt · Accepted Answer

That is a sad story. A vet home from the Iraq was killed in a random drive by shooting.
Police said he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time

Maui Guy · Answer

Yeah...the recent news where I am is about a drunk driver that hit a car that killed 3 teenagers, aged 15 to 18.  The driver was an illegal alien that survived the accident because he was drunk.

As far as your story...it is a sad one, but the dog served his community well.  I like the part where it says "helped disarm a man in Porirua".  I had to laugh a little because at first I wondered "which arm"....hehehe....

Anonymous · Answer

Darrel White stood before a judge in a faded black-and-white jail uniform. His hands were cuffed behind his back. His face was visibly pained.



 
Attorney Herbert Freeman patted the Vietnam vet on the back as the allegations that White, 65, was responsible for the death of his wife of 34 years by failing to care for her were read in court on Friday.

“I did the best I could under the conditions,” White told Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Ethna Cooper.

White waived his right to a trial and pleaded guilty to charges of reckless homicide and the failure to provide care to an impaired person.

White’s wife left Drake Hospital in 2003 when she and her family were told the hospital had done all it could for the woman with debilitating arthritis. 

By then, the 51-year-old woman was bedridden after losing her ability to walk five years earlier.

What happened over the next seven years in the home Jorene White shared with her husband and two adult children, one of who court documents state is an alcoholic, is a case of an overburdened man, both Darrel White’s attorney and prosecutors contend.

“I think this guy got overwhelmed and gradually stopped (providing) the proper care,” said Hamilton County Assistant Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier. 

Emergency workers had to put on protective clothing when they went into the Whites' filthy home on July 23 and found Jorene White, 57, dead on the floor. Her legs and torso were covered in bedsores. The bandages covering her body were soiled with excrement. Maggots had been feeding on her body, both in life and in death, prosecutors said. 

Her bed was covered in the fluids from her body, which had been wasting away over time. 

The Hamilton County Coroner’s office ruled Jorene White’s death a homicide. The cause of death was sepsis.

? · Answer

Poor doggie. =(

It wasn't a story in the newspaper, but a story on the Oprah show.
Three children were killed in a van because a semi hit them in the back. It wasn't the driver's fault because he couldn't slow down.
Miraculously, about a year to the date of their death, the mother and father had a set of triplets, two girls and a boy, just like the children who had died.
I thought it was amazing.

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Coble-Family-Miracle

? · Answer

A woman's sister was killed by a train and she saw the whole thing. They were taking the train to go back home when a woman pushed the woman's sister and then she got hit by the train and was killed.

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