What would you do if you?

I went to bed thinking that someone had been horribly hurt. I woke to the fact that is was all a hoax, a lie!

I feel stunned, used and horribly taken advantage of.

I'm not one bit sorry for my posting. I did what in my heart said was the right thing to do. It was!

I am so very proud of all the folks here in dogs for their rallying around and giving their support and prayers to someone they thought needed it!

Compassion is human some have more than others.

So is deceit and that is something I guess I will never totally understand, at least not to the level it was taken to.

I have no use for people who wallow in it!

I would rather be known for being a compassionate person then anything else.

I'm still trying to make heads & tails out of this. I do not condone lies, or the people who get their kicks out of perpetrating them.

This whole thing make my stomach turn!

I would drop the friend if that was the actual case.

I am so angrily confused right now because I have NO idea what is going on and that is incredibly frustrating to me. It's really putting me in a bad mood.

I am gathering that there was a "story" by her husband that she was attacked and in the hospital. And then other claims that she died. And now people saying it isn't true. And I know that pretty much everything relating to it has been deleted.

Was it a hacker? Was it a troll? Why in the WORLD would she do something like this? I find it nearly impossible to believe that she would create such a story for drama and upsetting people, as she's always been a great and adult contributor with nary a "crazy" moment. Everyone seems so angry with her...do we KNOW for sure that she posted the whole thing? Because unless we do, I would think it would be pretty awful hearing that everyone thought I was a liar and would do something so horrible when it was actually a troll hacker. We all know how rampant these silly trolls run and that they've hacked other's accounts in the past. Do we know that it was not the case here?

I'm confused, and angry because I'm confused and frustrated that I don't know exactly what's happening.

And what was RR's story? I was around at the time but apparently missed that one as well. See? This is what happens when you go to bed instead of staying on Y!A! I'm never sleeping again.

FILL ME IN! GAH!

Leave her for good.

A person who I believed to be my friend called Animal Control on me a few years ago. She had lied about being attacked by my dogs, they picked up every dog I had (at the time, five) and quarantined them for ten days. On the 10'th I had to go to court and provide paper proof that they were certified as assistance animals and had passed all rigorous tests for aggression. It too me two and a half weeks to get my dogs home with me again.

You can believe I pressed charges against her.

And as for the situation we're referring to, I'm confused on that as well. I NEVER would have thought it was a lie until she "died". I didn't get a message from her husband like many others did, I also didn't see her profile that said she had passed away. I thought it was rather strange though, if you looked her up on Y!Answers CANADA she has passed away. On Y!Answers USA she's still in the hospital. AND, what kind of grieving husband is on the internet posting about his wifes near death experience, and THEN says he's "leaving" the hospital and was called back? Hospitals don't allow laptops in the ICU (which was apparently where she was), the waves emitted mess with machines.

If a similar or worse thing had happened to me, my fiancee wouldn't be ten feet within a computer, especially to tell what happened. He'd wait until I was in stable condition or he'd call a friend to tell everyone. It doesn't fit right.

I really hope this isn't another Rockin' instance.. I don't know if I can take another one.

I too am very proud of our little band of friends here, its great to see how people (complete strangers for the most part!) can react in such a tragic situation.

And it also shows that if said person is LYING to us, how big of a douche said person would be for causing so many of us upset. I know many of us, myself included, BALLED upon hearing the news.

I guess, I would ask her/him why THEY felt the need to lie about something like that to me. I can't stand liars, but, as humans, we are not perfect. We all make mistakes at one time or another. It is sometimes harder to forget than to forgive. I think that we all want forgiveness when we do something wrong, so I would probably forgive this person and try to get down to the root of the problem, which is the "why" did this person lie to to me. I know that if I found out that my friend was lying to me all the time, that friendship would end, and I would just have to move on.

Add: Am I missing something here? Does this have anything to do with the posts last night? If it does, can you enlighten me? I hope that it was a lye and nobody was hurt, but if this is the case, why would someone do this?

I would not call that person a friend any more.

That is one really big lie that caused much distress and upset

But as others have said at the end of the day nobody was actually hurt and take a positive from the whole sorry situation that the contributors in the dog section are a kind caring compassionate community

We recently ran into this problem in early July. Except the person ( ex-friend) WAS bit in the face my a border collie. Needless to say even though this was a bad situation she did not need to lie about how it happened.

You see, this girl is really none to bright and has a lot of growing up to do. She was helping an older gentleman with his groceries, and he had his dog along with him.

I read the reports.....

"His story" He told her not to pet the dog as the dog was vary weary of strangers. So what does she do she leans into the van window and starts to pet the dog. The dog comes out after her and bites her on the nose and lip. She is rushed to the hospital as it totally tore part of her nose off and sliced her lip all the way through.

"Her story" he said she could pet the dog, she put the groceries in the van. then asked if she could pet the dog because she loved them. He told her she could. So she and the owner stood there petting the dog. when she turned away to go back into the store, when she got to the back of the van the dog came out of the window and attacked her and then jumped back in the van window.

Pretty fishy don't ya think? If that had actually happened the way she said don't you think that she would have been bitten from behind and not her face?

After a thorough investigation, witness's and police and hospital reports, all concluded it happened the way the owner had said.

This lady used to be a friend of our. But NO MORE! She came to our house 2 days after it happened. This lady has no morals what so ever. She told me that she was going to sue the dog owner because she needed the money. But was PO'd because she couldn't as it was all her fault and it happened in a grocery store parking lot and if anyone would be sueing it would be the store owners.

Then she starts messing with my dogs. I told her no wonder she got bit. She said I now your dogs are not going to bite. Which is true. But I told her that way she is approaching them that was probably the major problem. She said she does it all the time because dogs love me. I thought to my self, Right and that's why you got bit. You would have figured she would have been scared of dogs for a while, but not her.

Needless to say she has lost a lot of friends over her little lie about how she got bit. Especially since there were witness's to see it happen.

The dog owner was lucky his dog was UTD on all his vaccines.

Follow Dot's advice.

I, too, was impressed by the reaction from our regulars...but I couldn't escape the nagging idea that we were being screwed with (shocked and grieving man decides to log into wife's account for a service he never uses and somehow knows how to change her user name to reflect her status?).

What I wonder now: Why does Y!A seem to attract the kind of people who have the time and desire to create these elaborate set-ups -- to create drama around themselves for people they barely know?

How is it that people manage to create a soap opera in a place not naturally conducive to such a thing? And why do they insist on doing it? What does it say about the human condition that people have the time, inclination and apparent emotional void required to do these sorts of things?

As a species, we need a natural predator. Clearly being at the top of the food chain is not necessarily healthy.

Well, in the particular instance you are referring to - I would try to understand WHY. Perhaps it is a cry for help rather than a hateful act. I prefer to error on the side of understanding and forgiveness until I really know all the facts and can determine why.

Mentally stable people don't do things like this.

Edit: This whole situation makes me think of Rosie ODonnell's book "Find Me". If you've read it you probably know what I mean. It has to do with a woman who had a multiple personality disorder.

I'm still trying to get caught up on all this. I am not sure what happened.

I didn't sleep at all last night I was so upset and I couldn't stop crying.

Right now, honestly, I am feel more relief than anything else. I woke up to an email saying this user died. So I sat here and prayed for her family... When I got myself together, I started reading the rest of my emails.

I am relieved... Just relieved.

As for the person who did this, Karma takes care of that. I just don't have the energy to be angry yet. Just relief.

I adore EVERYONE here. What a good group of people we have. I mean, To know each and every one of you and to see how this community rallied around it's own made me very proud to be in this section.

No matter what, this is an excellent group of people. I learned that today.

I would probably not remain friends with that person either, it would be hard to find the truth in anything she said from now on.

But, I would feel bad for her for having to lie about something like that just for attention. She would really need to seek professional help. I wouldn't judge her though, I have no right to judge anybody but myself. People do things for all kinds of different reasons, lying is a cry for help and attention. I would hope this person gets the help and attention they need.