Sad Stories

I was just perusing online, something I haven't had much time for lately, and I came across a sad story. There is nothing particular about it other than that is another example of the tragedies that seem to plague us everyday. And a testament to really what a shitty, soulless world we live in.

It's a local story involving Monica Henk, a 26 year old killed in a hit and run motorcylce accident this past Saturday morning on Kent and Flushing in Brooklyn. A reward has been put out to help find the person who ultimately killed her. What I can't seem to wrap my brain around (as in many of these cases) is how a person can be involved in a hit and run. What a shitty thing to do. To totally unhinge a life and just walk away. I hope they wind up finding the person who did this because it is another case of yet again how a young life is taken far too soon. My thoughts and prayers go out to her and her family. It's really a sad situation. You can find out more about her on her ex-husband's website, www.danhenk.com Apparently they were still very close.

This brings me to another sad local story which also happened early Saturday morning. It put Bay Ridge on the map again. It's the story you may have all heard about the woman who gave birth to her baby and put it out in her backyard in a plastic bag and the baby died. This happened in our quiet community of Bay Ridge. The story is so ridiculous because apparently the mother of the child, a 25 year old woman, was a devout Catholic and that is why she did what she did. Her 27 and 29 year old sisters helped her deliver the baby and put it out. The mother then went to the hospital complaining of abdominal pain thinking they could help her without realizing she just gave birth. WHAT?!?!? I mean isn't it obvious that with one look at her, the medical professionals would be able to tell she had just popped out a child? Hello! So in trying to keep with the Catholics and not have a baby out of wedlock, she decided to hide her pregnancy, give birth, and then pretend she was never pregnant at all. Those Catholics, there are excuses for everything including baby killing. And then the family priest said that the child would have a catholic funeral. Well isn't that sooo generous of them. Maybe we can have a good old Catholic public hanging for the idiot mother.

This is sad because you think of all the people out there trying to get pregnant and can't. All the people who want to adopt and have problems. And then you have this moron and two sisters murder a poor child. And we're not talking young kids here. These are women well into their twenties, one of them almost 30. I mean what are you people thinking? I hope they throw the book at her. Ugh. It makes my blood boil.

That's it for the sad stories of the day. I promise there won't be another morbid one like this for a while. It just makes me crazy. Sad and angry all at the same time. The shittiness of life. No one can escape it.