Saved by My Chemical Romance

Rock Musician Files Lawsuit over Dog’s Mysterious Death

from People.com

The drummer for the rock band My Chemical Romance is suing a dog trainer after the musician’s beloved German shepherd mix died in the trainer’s care – and was returned in the form of cremated remains, according to court papers.

In a bizarre lawsuit filed in Burbank Superior Court, Bob Bryar alleges breach of contract, fraud, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress against Daniel Schaffer, described in the action as the self-proclaimed “dog trainer to the stars.”

“I don’t even know what happened to my best friend and miss her more than anything in the world,” Bryar tells PEOPLE. “The devastation I feel is beyond words.”

Acting on a referral, Bryar says he spent $7,500 in April to send his dog Dixie – “the most important thing in his life,” according to the lawsuit – to Schaffer’s kennel for intense training to help the emotionally fragile, formerly abused rescue dog adjust to a new dog in the household.

About a week later, after previously telling Bryar that the dog had been “having a blast and partying all day,” Schaffer reported that Dixie was killed when a drunk driver struck the vehicle in which Schaffer was carrying Dixie and other dogs, according to the lawsuit.

Later that evening, “Schaffer called (Bryar) again and informed him that he could not say goodbye to Dixie for she had been ‘cremated due to her condition,’” the lawsuit says. Two days later, the trainer “delivered an urn allegedly containing Dixie’s remains,” the suit says. After Schaffer failed to produce a police report documenting the crash, he changed his story and said Dixie died in her sleep, then changed that story to say she died under other circumstances, the suit says.

Schaffer didn’t return messages seeking comment. No response has yet been filed to Bryar’s lawsuit.

Sorry if this is old news to some, I just saw it. Poor Bob and Dixie!

Daniel Schaffer is not a trainer I would ever have used and was the wrong person for what Dixie needed anyway. I wish someone would have been able to tell Bob that before this happened.

June 27, 2009 Posted by savedbymcr | Uncategorized | , , , , , | No Comments Yet

Trenton’s “saved by mcr” story

my first time hearing mcr was in 2004 when i heard helena,
i wasnt dpressed but wasnt happy with life,
i also heard teenagers and welcome to the black parade,
but i never got into mcr or was very depressed,
when i met my friend autumn everything changed,
i became depressed and was introduced to mcr,
mcr was the only thing that helped me,
cause i didnt tell my parents so i couldnt get pills,
i went everywhere with my mp3 player,
full of mcr songs,
i had more mcr stuff than autumn,
their lyrics are inpirational and helped me through a dark part of my life,

that is my saved by mcr story….

June 25, 2009 Posted by savedbymcr | Uncategorized | , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Jessie’s “saved by MCR” story

I’m not even sure when I turned into what I am today started getting depressed. All I know is that one day near the very end of summer vacation last year I was laying around in my room. I don’t even remember what was going through my head. I don’t even remember which method of suicide was going through my head. Oh, right, now I remember. I had some sort of blade to my leg (yes, you read correctly, leg) and I just wanted to dig as deep a gash in me as I could. This very computer was on the other side of my bedroom, and was playing my iTunes library on shuffle. I looked at my leg, and I really wanted to do it. I was afraid of the pain. But, I wanted to die, or something, just any form of feeling.
I’d just raked an ugly cut into my calf and was about to deepen it when I looked up. Famous Last Words was playing. I have no idea what came over me. My Chem had never meant much to me, but it was like something hit me in the face. What the hell was I doing? I dropped the blade, or whatever it was I’d been holding, and I cried until I fell asleep. My Chemical Romance had just saved me from a lot of shit. What did this mean? Was I going insane?
Over the course of the summer, I came to understand that I wasn’t the only one who’d been saved from themselves. Slowly I pushed aside Fall Out Boy, and MCR was my favourite band.
This little incident didn’t repeat itself for some time, but then one night my dad went off on me because I misunderstood his words and asked him what he meant. Yeah, I know. Anyways, he was ranting on about how I’m never going to make it and I’m going to wind up at McDonald’s for the rest of my life because the only thing I really give a damn about is music. Right before he left he hit me over the head. I wasn’t used to being hit, just yelled at constantly. It struck me deeply. After he left, I was plotting my own suicide. I knew where I could get a gun if I was desperate enough, and I was. I didn’t know what there was left to live for. My friends were kind of crappy, always starting drama and whatever. All three parental figures were crappy, and what else did I have? Crappy school grades? Not much to live by. I didn’t care about any of it anymore.
I lay still for a moment, going over the plan in my head. Get Morgan’s dad’s gun. Write a nice little letter to my parents, and wait until I’m home alone. We live in a fucking trailer park, who’s going to care if a gun goes off?
I was planning on what to write in my head, and then I have no idea what happened. It’s like I could hear Famous Last Words playing in my head again. What the hell? Once again, that apathetic exterior melted faster than butter in an oven (what a crappy metaphor, I know) and I just cried again, for like an hour. I’d worn myself down pretty efficiently.
Eventually I managed to pull myself out of the depression I’d sunk into without even realizing it. A few questionable incidents are all that mark me since that time. You guys mean more to me than anyone else in the world. While my friends are going to FCA and preaching to each other for swearing and taking the Lord’s name in vain, I shamelessly admit that I don’t believe in all that (which is pretty extreme when you live in the motherfucking BIBLE BELT). Jesus, in my eyes, isn’t the one who saved my life. My Chemical Romance are, and for that I’ll never stop loving them.

June 25, 2009 Posted by savedbymcr | Uncategorized | , , , , , | No Comments Yet

Tiana’s “saved by MCR” Story

every one does think MCR writes about suicide but they write about it to prevent it. they saved my life, i cut my self alot and had to wear arm warmers to hide the cuts and scars from people because i didnt want peopl to know and my friends to that i was emo till one day a girl i hated pulled down my arm warmers and raised it up in the air for the whole school too see i was then called emo and all that other shit i was then about to kill my self because of all the shity fuckin people at my school but then i went on the computer and about to email all my friends before i was about to kill myself saying i was emo and that i was going to kill my self and that i was sorry but then one of my friends sent me a song called “Famous last words” so i listened to it and i fell in love with it i looked up the band and it was called My Chemical Romance i put the knife back and became a fan of MCR i  love mcr and Gerard hes so cute and a good person.

June 25, 2009 Posted by savedbymcr | Uncategorized | , , , , , , | No Comments Yet

Danet’s “saved by MCR” story

Hi, my name is Danet, and if you could, I wanted to share my story with anyone that would listen. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

I’m 13 years old MCR defiantly saved my life more than once. When I was younger, my sister used to listen to MCR and I remember that the first time I ever heard them was when I watched the Helena music video with my sister. I loved it even thought I was so young. I remember watching a lot of MCR videos with her. But after a while, she got into other bands and I forgot about MCR. After all, I wasn’t old enough to really know what they were talking about when they sang songs like Famous Last Words and I’m Not Okay. I had a pretty okay life through 5th grade. My parents fought a lot though and my dad treated my sister like shit. One night, my parents got into a huge fight. And I mean huge. The cops ended up coming to our house. The whole time my sister sat in my room with me while I cried. She stuck by me and I loved her for it. My parents decided on a divorce and it hit me hard because I was so close to my dad. My mum, sister, and I ended up moving out of state to live with my grandparents. Now, at first, everything was okay. Yeah, I had things like “Emo” and “Freak” thrown at me, but I tried to ignore it. When I went into middle school, things got really bad. I was constantly called Emo, freak, and weird, anything you can think of. People constantly asked if I was emo and I always said no. But it just got to be too much and I started cutting myself around 7th grade. I just felt so alone and just plain scared. No one understood me or even wanted to try. My sister shut herself up and pushed everyone away, my so called dad acted like he didn’t give a shit and never paid child support, never talked to us, and went on vacations to Italy with the money that was supposed to be feeding us. This is where My Chem really starts to come into my life. I was looking through Fuse one day and saw a loaded episode on My Chemical Romance. I remembered the name and thought: Hey, I’ll listen to these guys again. So I recorded it and the next day watched it. It went through the song Welcome To The Black Parade and I remembered that. Then it started playing Famous Last Words and I remembered that one too so I started kind of humming along. Then it got to the chorus. I just stopped singing. I just sat there staring at the screen. It felt like I was hearing the song for the first time. I can’t even describe how it made me feel. I just cried. Because, for once, I felt like somebody understood me, I felt like somebody cared. I didn’t feel alone. And since then, I stopped cutting myself and I stopped all of self-harm. I made a promise. I literally said aloud, “I swear to you Gerard, I will never hurt myself again. No matter what.” Now MCR helps me through all of my hard situations. No matter how bad it is, all I have to do is think about something Gee, Frank, Bob, Mikey, or Ray said and I feel so much better. My friends turned to the ‘popular’ life and called me names, I thought of what Gee said “Hey Girls, you are beautiful.” I felt better. My grandparents turned out to be something I hate most (Homophobias), and I almost did something I would regret, but I thought about the song Teenagers and I just walked away. My mum started to try and change who I was, I just thought of how MCR wasn’t afraid to be MCR and I felt better. In a way, MCR had taught me all of those cliché life rules. Don’t do drugs, violence is not the answer, all of it I learned from MCR. And I’m proud of it. One of my friends asked me what I want to do before I die, my reply: “I want to meet My Chemical Romance and say ‘thank you’.” And I swear, one day I’m going to meet them and tell them thank you for giving me my life back.

June 25, 2009 Posted by savedbymcr | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments Yet

angelina’s story

haaay all you crazy mcr fan’s im angelina im 12 year’s old and i looove mcr! dont judge me by my age either or i’ll drop you mofo lol jkjk! so here’s my story that i know you all wanna hear! my sister’s freind made my sister a cd! the 12th song on there was teenager’s by my chemical romance! i didnt evan now the name of the song or the band i just knew that this was they best fukkin song eva made! then i bought welcome to the black parade on my cellphone because i wanted more mcr! at that time i was only 10 tehe! but then i lost the cd and my cellphone so i let them die down for a bit! but then last year i was on youtube reaserching twilight video’s and for some reason there was a video labaled welcome to the black parade by my chemical romance! curiosly i clicked on it and i was shocked to hear the song i was in love wth as a child! so i reaserched more mcr vid’s! and i realized how fukkin hott they all were so i started to listen to them evan more then
before! and now i am proli one of the youngest mcr fan’s eva XD and proud of it! so ya thatz my story so peace to your mother and i’ll talk to all you’s mcr fan’s latterz ;D

June 25, 2009 Posted by savedbymcr | Uncategorized | , , , , | No Comments Yet

Trina’s “Saved by MCR” story

i’m trina and here’s my quite lame story.
i’ve been a fan since 2006.
and in 2006, mcr wasn’t really saving me, since i wasn’t depressed or thinking about suicide like most of the other amazing “saved by mcr” stories.
i was quite oblivious to this amazing band back then, until i bought the black parade.
and when i did, i actually had no real reason on why i did.
i just heard a girl on my bus talking about an mcr concert she’d gone to.
at that time though, i wasn’t depressed or anything like that–i was just me. me who still listened to hip hop and was practially in love with panic at the disco.
i had never even heard of mcr before.
but when i bought that CD, i fell in love with my chem, but then i forgot about them for a while.
during the summer of ‘08, my love for mcr was renewed once again.
i dug deeper into the meanings of their songs and found how much mcr could help me in life.
from then on, my chem has helped me overcome obstacles and has given me hope & courage when i needed it.
now, i mean it when i say that my life is mcr. i really mean it.
it’s like i have to have a daily dose of their music or else i’m not very pleasant to be around.
i wouldn’t be the person that i am today without these amazing guys.
so, that’s my story of being saved by mcr.
nothing to do with depression or cutting or suicides…but it’s something.
thanks for reading.

January 18, 2009 Posted by savedbymcr | Saved by MCR stories | , , | No Comments Yet

Lamaine’s “Saved by MCR” story

hi i’m lamaine i’m 12 i knew mcr around 2006.
but at that time i was obsessed with suicide. I wanted to kill myself but one day i was riddding the bus and heard a song from the radio singing “iam not afraid to keep on living
iam not afraid to walk this world alone” it kinda made me fell better a little. So i asked a busmate of mine “dude what’s the tittle of this song…it rocks!!!” and he told me “it’s famous last words dude by my chemical romance it rocks”. “cool” i said
and when i got home i turned on the t.v and there was a pretty cool video and kinda like spooke to me…..so i keep watching it until the very end
and i saw “welcome to the blackparade by my chemical romance” and i was thinking this band is kinda cool……….
so the next day i downloaded some mcr music to my computer and searched about them and saw about the black parade
thier latest album. So i wentt out and bought it and listened and said “wow thier music is awesome”
and after then on i started researching everything about them i wanted to know everything………………….
after a few weeks my friends saw something different about me like i was smilling………………singing……………
and talking! at first i never knew that i changed that much……..until they asked me “hey, lamaine how are with that suicide thing”
a long pause came…………wow it’s been weeks……….and haven’t even thought abou suicide……..
i just forgot about it……………i was so thankful……..i really wanted to thank them…….

January 3, 2009 Posted by savedbymcr | Uncategorized | , , | No Comments Yet

Emily’s “Saved by MCR” story

My name is Emily and I am 13 and i have been obsessed since about the time of Thanksgiving ‘08. so about three weeks now. They didn’t exactly save my life and i don’t have a story of conastantly being bullied. But still they affected me in a way i have never told anyone about.
So pretty much i was considering cutting and drugs and alchol. I have lots of friends but i felt like most of them could turn on me because one of my friends did and she is so mean to me now. Sadly i found about MCR because of a boy. I was looking at his facebook profile and one of his favorite bands was MCR. I downloaded all of there songs and started listening to them. I got the messages and realized that i didn’t have to cut and that if my friends turned on me i could have MCR and be okay. I wasn’t on the verge on killing myself, but if hadn’t found MCR i might have. Gee is also really inspiring because my dad was an alcholic and i didn’t really get it. I still think he’s the best and he has gone through so much just like gee. I still need someone to talk to and if your around my age it would be appreciated.
here’s my email dragstrgrl13@gmail.com

December 18, 2008 Posted by savedbymcr | Saved by MCR stories | , , , , , | No Comments Yet

Kirsty’s “Saved by MCR” story

When I was 18 I went through a period of self harm and the way I got through it was through music and relying on God. Music has always been an emotional release for me. I remember when I was younger sitting relaxing while The Offspring blared out my stereo speakers. About 6 months later I became a Christian.

Things were great and I was enjoying life until I found that I didn’t fit the “Christian mould”. I wore black clothes, I listened to “loud” music, I didn’t say the “right words” and I thought differently. That’s when some Christians I knew started to change me. I slowly became a completely different person and eventually felt trapped. I tried to wear other colours but always seemed to go back to black. I tried to say the right things but it never seemed to come out right. I tried to listen to slower music but it was all so boring. I ended up in a place where I didn’t enjoy doing anything anymore. I was sinking deeper and deeper into depression. I felt like I was meant to be a different person to be a real Christian, but I eventually realised that this wasn’t the way God intended my life to be.

I developed a “meh” attitude and wore my black clothes proudly even though I knew people were looking at me strangely. I listened to my heavy metal Christian music even though I knew people would make a comment about it being “too loud” or something silly like that.
It wasn’t until I got back into MCR that things started to fall back into place.

I started watching music videos on YouTube and stumbled across MCR music videos. The first time I saw I’m not ok and Helena I was hooked and seeing them again it was like I’d stumbled upon something great. I started to remember how I felt when first watched these videos. Then I moved on to more MCR videos (I Don’t Love You, Teenagers, Ghost of You). I feel in love again and something sparked. I had found what made me excited and what made me me. People can call me emo or whatever, I don’t care anymore. MCR (and God) have made me realise that it doesn’t matter what other people think. Life is all about being true to yourself and doing what you love.

I want to make videos/films and work with computers, I don’t care how nerdy that it. I want to be moved emotionally by music, I don’t care how emo that makes me. I want to wear the clothes I feel comfortable in and not be effected by what other people think. MCR seem to have a “f*** you, I’ll do what I want” attitude. Its shown by the way they write songs about whatever they want, they make videos about whatever they want and they live life however they want. I want my life to be similar, but with less swearing =)

December 17, 2008 Posted by savedbymcr | Saved by MCR stories | , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

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