ok, it's a fallout 3 related incident, but NOTHING to do with the dog (though I was well gutted when dogmeat died, thank god for the dlc and dogmeat's puppies

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I was playing a fairly nice character, never really did any harm to anyone. I'd usually come back to my awesome house in megaton (even though the town was a shitheap) after being on a quest. It was always good to come back and see deputy weld, guarding the gates and generally being a legend ("howdy. partner. have, yourself, a, swell, time."). Well, one time I leave megaton, and as soon as I get outside the gates, I see Deputy Weld's body slump to the ground. dead. gone. no more. my instant reaction was 'the fuck?!', so I went on a rampage outside the town, killing the stupid traders and the stupid water sellers from broken steel. naturally the people inside werent too happy, so I ran off and laid low for a while.
When everyone had calmed down, I went back, sorted any unfinished business nice and calmly, traded with moira, finished off a side quest. then pulled out my fatman and laid a precision mini-nuke right in the centre of town. It all got a bit hazy after that..but yer, theres now a lovely pile of bodies around the once quite busy town xD
still don't know who was responsible for D Weld's death, or if it was a glitch or what. and I'll never see him again

...on the plus side, I am now the supreme ruler of megaton, on account of me being the only real person left
