Warning very gruesome pitbull story from today.

So earlier today after practicing tball with my son he asked to go see the trains. I live in a city that has a large train watching platform downtown and typically there are some trains that slowly go by and will blow their horn for the kids.

There were no trains so I went to make a quick block and head home since it was almost dark. I see this older gentleman in his 70s, wearing a coon skin hat, and walking his German shorthaired pointer. His dog was barking and pulling the leash and then I notice a pitbull, attached to a 15 ft logging chain, running full speed at them. Instantly the dogs start fighting so I pulled over trying to be a good samaritan. I was thinking I could grab the large chain on the pitbull and try my hardest to pull the dogs apart. The dogs were latched for several minutes and it was getting gruesome, blood was everywhere and the old man was losing his mind yelling at me to get them apart. So first off all I'm not getting my body close to the dogs heads. The old man's dog appeared to quit fighting and I couldn't tell if it was dead or if it just gave up. As soon as this happened it was as if a switch flipped in the old man. He grabbed his pocket knife and started stabbing the Pitbull violently and I'm pretty sure he hit a main artery as blood was spewing everywhere, like over 5 ft per squirt. The street was covered in blood.

At this point the old man seemed to be getting irritated with me since I couldn't get the pitbull to release even though I was pulling hard enough to move a damn truck but this dog was latched on to his dog's neck and was not letting go until it died. Once the knife came out I told him I couldn't be around and I would go get help.

I was terrified, mainly of 3 things....the old man getting me with his knife or a gun, the pitbull owner coming out with a weapon, or the possibility of the pitbull letting go and biting me since I was pulling the chain.

Next I got in my vehicle and had to explain this situation to my 4 year old son, who saw the entire thing. I found a policeman and let him know what happened and where.

So what would the OT have done? Looking back I kind of wish I wouldn't have stopped but the old man looked like he could have been injured. Once the knife was out I knew it was ending soon and I didn't want the old man or the pitbull owner to attack me.