roadside memorials

[Lurker66]

Knobody really has a problem with garage sale signs gettin posted on public corners or lost puppy signs tacked to telephone poles or even "gun show" signs posted on public property....how bout all the high speed internet signs. Vote for me signs and get ur taxes done here signs will soon be popping up.

Maybe it is all just litter and distraction. Personally when I got to a cemetary I see alot of "trash" there...notes, plastic flowers, little throw away flags, old balloons ect ect...its an eyesore.

What we need to do is pass a law telling people whats appropriate, how to greive and where to put trash.

 

[dennishoddy]

Your right. New laws would correct that.

Maybe the EPA should get involved as I'm sure some of the items carry toxic chemicals.

 

[53convert]

when I started driving Dad told me to watch for them and remember where they are cause they represent a car accident location and you should slow down.
He also told me if you see a bunch of them at the same location, find another way to get some where as that spot is dangerous and cursed.

Im ok with them

 

[elwoodtrix]

Ehhhh ... I dunno ... Kinda goes to the "victim" mentality to me. Oh look ... Poor pitiful me ... I lost someone important to me ... "HERE" But I'm a heartless ***** that way. I don't like the "memorials" on the back of cars either ... RIP, John or Jane Doe, XX/XX/XXXX to XX/XX/XXXX either. Yeah, I've lost friends and family is lots of ways, too. Some of them "fair", like my almost 100 year old grandmother who lived a full and rowdy life absolutely terrorizing the rest of her immediate and extended family in ways that would make families of lesser souls cry "FOUL", some of them "not so fair", like my month old grandson ...

My point is, maybe folks would do well to remember a couple of things my grandpa taught me when I was 4 and my puppy died:

1. Life ain't fair.
2. It's not just you life ain't fair to. Get over yourself.


OK ... Carry on ...

the poor girl at 23 and Rockwell...
Carina Saunders... sad story

 

[AKguy1985]

They dont bother me. One of my HS classmates was killed when she fell asleep at the wheel and was ejected from her car. Somebody has mainted her roadshine shrine where she died the past ten years.

 

[trickydick]

A young Indian-American gal at work wears a RIP t-shirt for some fellow that died a couple years back, seems really tacky and inappropriate to me(kinda like his death is more about her than him)

 

[Okie4570]

Knobody really has a problem with garage sale signs gettin posted on public corners or lost puppy signs tacked to telephone poles or even "gun show" signs posted on public property....how bout all the high speed internet signs. Vote for me signs and get ur taxes done here signs will soon be popping up.

Maybe it is all just litter and distraction. Personally when I got to a cemetary I see alot of "trash" there...notes, plastic flowers, little throw away flags, old balloons ect ect...its an eyesore.

What we need to do is pass a law telling people whats appropriate, how to greive and where to put trash.

I know that in Enid, there's a group of people that drive around looking for sign infractions, they call the city and then they are removed if they don't meet the sign placement rules.
From doing Fire/EMS work, I'd say that only about 50% of the fatalities that I've been on or know about, get shrines in this part of the state.

 

[338Shooter]

I don't like the other sign trash either. I don't believe in putting my garbage on other peoples property.

 

[Hoov]

I don't like the other sign trash either. I don't believe in putting my garbage on other peoples property.

Especially when my tax dollars are used to keep it up.

 

[RidgeHunter]

I agree with DG. They're trashy in my opinion. A mile from my old house lies a shrine to a couple of kids who decided to play live action Grand Theft Auto and brought a truck to a gunfight with some local flatfoots. Turns our the windshield wasn't bulletproof and there have been giant wooden crosses up in the yard of the homeowner there for over a decade. He mows around them. I'd tear them down

I also had a friend whose fence was turned into a redneck shrine for a guy who thought enough cheap whiskey and 3.2 beer made a "3" appear on his doors.

I've known people lost in wrecks, and I myself was in a wreck with two fatalities. The accident site should not be a shrine. Life is not a Randy Travis song.

Also "in memory of" on the back window of a Kia or Honda annoys me. IIRC, that started in lowrider culture. Your friend died, so you and the other guys build his dream car/finish his project. Add a plaque to the back window. Labor of love/respect. How is a Honda minivan "in memory" of anyone?