Dead Dog
Dear person whose dog must have broken free and ran into the side of my car on the way home,
I’m sorry I wasn’t able to stop. I didn’t see you around anywhere, and it wasn’t exactly easy to stop on a busy highway where your dog dig its deed. I don’t know if it walked away or not, since by the time I looked in my rear view mirror the car behind me had already closed up enough space I couldn’t see it.
I checked with Judge FIL, and he told me that I’m not under an obligation to report the incident unless I want to collect insurance money. Since the only damage your dog did was break my turn signal cover, I’ll just let this one go.
Sincerely,
Celeb
(As a follow up, let me know your thoughts on me not stopping to see what happened. Consider this: the dog ran into the side of my car, I swerved as much as I could, but I was on a two lane highway at 5pm in the evening. Nobody was around, and it didn’t happen in front of any particular house. Should I have turned around somewhere up the road and gone back, or should I have just said screw it? )
April 14th, 2006 at 6:29 am
Probably wouldn’t have stopped, but also would have felt a little bad about not stopping.
April 14th, 2006 at 9:29 am
Re: stopping after hitting someone’s pet
What’s the point? Unless you are god and can bring the pet back to life, I see no point in stopping. It wasn’t your fault, why stop to appologize?
April 17th, 2006 at 9:20 am
bigD said: “what’s the point?”
often dogs hit by cars don’t die immediately. they break a hip or their backs or something and then lay on the ground for awhile until they get hit by another car or die from their injuries.
i think i would have gone back to see whether the dog was dead or just injured. if it was just injured i’d have called humane society or ASPCA to see if they’d come get it.
April 19th, 2006 at 8:59 am
dead cat
was walking to the cafeteria at work the other day, and there’s some construction going on next door, building a new building, and there’s some haybales around this drain to keep trach from flowing into it when it rains. well, right next to one of the bales was a dead cat with flies all over. i thought about putting a “Free Cat” sign next to it, like that picture i got forwarded in an email, but didn’t cause of all the people around and no posterboard or markers