Girl trying to save sick pet dies in stolen car crash
Sometimes, the news I find is just sad.
A 15-year-old girl died Tuesday in a dramatic, ill-advised, effort to save her cancer-stricken dog from euthanasia.
Taylor Mae Stinchcomb, 15, died trying to prevent her dog from being euthanized.
According to an article in the Chicago Sun Times, Taylor Mae Stinchcomb, 15, stole her family’s 2003 Dodge minivan and fled her Chicago-area home with her ill dog, Romulus, and a female friend, also 15.
When Taylor became too upset to drive, her unnamed friend took the wheel. Moments later, the friend lost control of the vehicle and crashed into several trees and a telephone pole.
The dog was thrown from the vehicle and died immediately. Taylor died of her injuries at a local hospital. The driver escaped almost without a scratch.
Drugs or alcohol were not a factor in the crash, police said.
Police are not sure where the girls were headed or what they planned to do.
Taylor picked the dog out while visiting an animal shelter on her 13th birthday.
A high school freshman, Taylor is survived by two sisters, a brother and her parents, Bill and LeeAnn Stinchcomb.
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95 comments Add your comment
Ashton = petulant lout
July 5th, 2011
3:31 am
big LOLs at the inane tripe ashton felt compelled to fabricate and tack onto a story about a completely different topic . Waycross , Ga obviously has one very bitter and ungrateful refugee roaming the streets
Thoth Amon
July 6th, 2011
3:47 pm
If your teen takes the car without permission, and you consider it “stolen”, that makes YOU a cold, hard retard and a lousy parent. Parenting requires copious amounts of love, and if you don’t have the capacity for it, do your future kids a favor and stay celibate!
pjay
July 6th, 2011
6:39 pm
Sure, it’s tragic. But this girl caused her own death, by virtue of having some weird and distorted sense of priority. What has happened to the NORMAL human ability of dealing with bad news and unfortunate realities?! These days, when young people get confronted by a reality that they don’t like, they WIG the F*&! OUT and do STUPID and often FATAL things!
GROW UP. EVERYONE has pets that die. Yes, it’s sad! But there’s nothing that can be done about it, so you ACCEPT it. You don’t go flying off the handle and engaging in irrational actions just because you’re upset — being upset is not a valid excuse!
pjay
July 6th, 2011
6:41 pm
Thoth, the only retard here is you. Just because what happened is sad, you want to change the definition of “stolen.”
And the fact is, someone screwed up in raising this kid — evident by the fact that when she was faced with losing her pet dog, she FLIPPED OUT and turned IRRATIONAL.
So, WHO are the bad parents? The ones that won’t tolerate having their kid steal and wreck their car, or the ones who raised a kid who would do that?
Thoth Amon
July 7th, 2011
9:39 am
I’m not changing any definitions, only perception, and you idiot pjay are like too many Americans these days seeing the world in black and white. I love MY children and would never be such a cold retard that I would claim they “stole” the car. Obviously YOU don’t measure up to any decent standards.