What's The Saddest Thing You've Ever Seen?

One thing that has always stuck with me was an indecent that happened when I was really young, probably around 5 or 6, maybe even younger. I just remember being in the car with my mom and her friends, it was late and we were driving home. All of the sudden I heard something hit the car. My mom and her friends started yelling at the guy driving and eventually he stopped and went back to see what it was. It ended up being a Golden Retriever. I guess the guy was drunk or something...he hit the dog so hard that almost all the fur on its left side was scraped off. My mom didn't want me to see as they tried to help the dog so I just stayed in the car. That's all I remember but I'll never forget the way that poor dog looked. I don't even know if it survived or not. So sad :(

Me again, Although I have seen People cry a lot I could not help but be deeply moved by a Lady that was being comforted almost outside the Hospital Door the Main Doors that is. She was unconsolable and was being supported by another Woman. Now I have never ever seen this kind of thing before and she was in such a state of grief but she was not crying out loud she was just holding on to the other Woman for dear life itself. I have seen People cry but it has never moved me as much as this Woman did. I cannot begin to imagine what had happened it must have been something terrible though. It was a heart wrenching scene. Another one that did move me to tears was when the Woman next Door to us jumped through the Window and killed herself. I met them downstairs and they were all crying so badly I could not help but me moved by their tears. We were there when it happened and it was a very sad thing to happen. People like that should have Bars on their Windows for their own safety.

Two things spring to mind. The public hanging of a 16 year old girl in Iran. Her crime was to have had an affair with an older man - although any man would have done in their eyes. The other one happens every time that I see the coffin of a British service man or woman brought off an aircraft from Afghanistan. The pointless waste of a young life in a pointless war.

I can understand how you felt. I would have felt the same. My saddest thing was mom when she had just come out of surgery and seeing her in the hospital bed with all the tubes.....It still makes me cry.

How pitiful the monkeys were!The reason Why they were terrified of humans and cowered was that they known from experience that human could hurt them. As you have known,my thoughts go out to the wild animals all the time,particularly when they are being harmed .Without saying,It must rule out harmful animals,for example,wild boar .With improvement of the ecological environment, the head of wild boar is increasing here in recent years,they destroy the cropes even attack people.

The saddest thing I have seen is when I had an afternoon walk and I saw an infant carried by a teen-age father resting on the street,with a dirty clothes and just feed with water.I walked a few meters and saw a blind old woman begging on the streets alone.It's just such a sad sight that makes me depress the whole day.Why our government could not help to end the poverty and suffering of these people and yet they are spending billions on luxurious coffee and trips.

Just like you I am very sensitive to the suffering of animals Janey. It always surprises me when I see others that seem so indifferent to it. It's probably because I have grown up surrounded by animals. We always had a dog and a cat at least. Then one of our dogs some pups and one was the runt of the litter, quite ugly and nobody wanted him, so he too became part of the family. We also bred ponies at one time as I rode a lot from a young age and then leared how to school the new ones for children's riding ponies. Nowadays I hear of breeders breeding them for their meat, and that really feels sad to me, because I identify them as being characters and companions. _Derek

Hiya Janey, Have seen lots of sad things yes. A certain Man who keeps Horses for his work went back to their Van while he was with them and found that they had been the victims of an acid attack. I was so moved by the cruelty of this act as the Horses had nothing to do with anything or anyone none of it was their fault. He really tried to save them about three of them survived but they no longer work with him as such because of the terrible scars on them all over. He had about nine Horses with him so you can imagine the spectacle of it all. In real life I once went down the Road to the Vet who supplied Food for my Parrot I had then. She showed me a very young Puppy that had been thrown into one of those deep containers on a very hot Day and its Paw had been very badly burned on the bottom of the pads you know the underneath of the paws. That moved me deeply I cannot think what makes People do this kind of thing. Another time was when we were going through Madrid at Night very late and there were three or maybe four very young Bassett Hound Puppies wandering the Motorway. Now there was just no way they could have got there themselves because of the very high embankments. It upset me for most of the Journey because there was just no way we could stop without causing an accident. We managed not to hit them but you can imagine that most would not see them and just run into them before they even realized what was happening. If they don´t want Dogs what on earth do they do that for? Such beautiful Puppies I wanted to call the Police but you know I did not know which Police to call as you can get fined now for calling them for nothing. It was very obvious that someone had opened their Car Door and just left them there as they were completely lost as to where they were. They could at least have given them a chance and left them somewhere else. Your story about the Monkeys is very sad as well. xxx

For me the saddest thing I have ever seen is also related to animals. I once saw a stray dog being run over by an obnoxious driver and my heart really went out to the dog. It was somewhat a traumatic experience for me and even if the incident was already more than 4 years ago, the memory is still fresh and sometimes makes me cry. I'm an animal lover myself and it really hurts to see animals being mistreated and not being taken cared of.