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leeter		#21	[-]
Posts: 2751 (06/07/09 5:40 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Axle the Bulldog wrote: Permanent markers for every fuckwit that gets into an accident? You'd have more markers than trees. No thanks. 50,000 fuckwits a year. But I suppose they all deserved to die, didn't they Axle?
dmb154678		#22	[-]
Posts: 32627 (06/07/09 5:45 PM) Sexy asshole Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Nonentitled wrote: Yeah, I don't understand putting stuffed animals at kids' graves/death sites at all. They're just going to get messed up. Donate toys to a shelter or daycare or something if you have so many to spare. Roadside shrines always scream TRASH to me. Almost as much as the finely crafted and touching memorial that someone had painstakingly carved...into the paint on a bathroom stall in Roses department store in Somerset, Kentucky. Think I'm making this up? I'll bet it's still there. The store is just off highway 27. Someone go check for us! that's the ultimates in klass eta, omg, nickf and i are twinsies. i would be like "dead germs, dead germs". i'm that way in funeral parlors and cemetaries too. yuck. i won't even drink out of the water fountain. i bring my own twist off diet coke and leave it in the car where there won't be any dead germs. Last Edited By: dmb154678 06/07/09 5:47 PM. Edited 1 times.
pie123452001		#23	[-]
Posts: 34366 (06/07/09 5:53 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	There's so many here in Deadmonton. We were driving one Saturday and Mr. Pie saw a stop sign close to our neighbourhood with plastic flowers around it. "Someone died there?!!!" he asked. "Um...I think that's a garage sale" I answered. You just can't tell these days.
Ann Margret Thatcher		#24	[-]
Posts: 7805 (06/07/09 5:54 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	My theory is that maybe since people are so far removed from death than they were in the past, when more died at home and it was common to have visitation or "lay outs" in the home, people make these tributes to try and feel more connected to their loved ones deaths.
Pseudo Propaganda		#25	[-]
Posts: 1992 (06/07/09 6:05 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I am sure it is so they can feel more connected and maybe it brings some kind of peace to know the exact spot where your loved one spent their last living moments. I just think it is tacky and should be discouraged.
goner1		#26	[-]
Posts: 7027 (06/07/09 6:06 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Nonentitled wrote: Roadside shrines always scream TRASH to me. X i roll my eyes at them. aren't most of them for some drunk who plowed into a pole? there's three really colorful craptastic ones that i go past regularly. the police should do stakeouts on these dumps and fine these idiots for illegal dumping.
Ann Margret Thatcher		#27	[-]
Posts: 7806 (06/07/09 6:12 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Yeah, they are distracting and every time I pass one, I always wonder how many fender benders have happened there from rubberneckers.
spragenspelt		#28	[-]
Posts: 2721 (06/07/09 6:20 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I hate when the memorials disappear and you think they're all over it finally, and then a few days later a bigger and more obnoxious tribute shows up in its stead Those "in memoriam" bumper stickers are becoming all the rage these days too...again this must cause accidents as folks ride their bumper to see if they can make out the name/age of the deceased.
Pahrump Mania		#29	[-]
Posts: 3917 (06/07/09 6:22 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	The ebst idea I have heard about memorials is that wildflowers should be planted. The other memorials are too distracting.
Tres Gay		#30	[-]
Posts: 4522 (06/07/09 7:26 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	It was hard enough driving past the scene of the accident I was in. Then the family of one of the people who died started one of those roadside things and put stuffed animals and flowers out regularly. I had gotten to the point where I could pass it and not realize it until afterwards. When they started putting stuff out I had to start taking a long detour.
Shemeji Yabara		#31	[-]
Posts: 164 (06/07/09 7:34 PM) Non Sequitur Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Bernard Wrangler wrote: I like 'em. Me too. It's special when people remember their road-kill neighbors. Not joking. They bring flowers, clean up, sometimes even build new pedestrian bridges just for one dead five-year-old girl. My son was hit by a Mexican lady once right outside his high school. Flew half a block, landed on his feet, "haha" back to class. Turns out she was really short (Not racist!) could barely see over the dashboard of her SUV. Lo and behold two months earlier she had killed some elderly German tourists. So they deported her dumb ass, here illegally. (Dumb = all she needy was a phonebook to sit on) You get my drift. . . roadside memorials = people still care.
Mrpoopypants		#32	[-]
Posts: 1924 (06/07/09 7:40 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	If it helps loved ones while they are grieving what do I care ....
frisbeehead		#33	[-]
Posts: 15528 (06/07/09 7:51 PM) Make it a funny one! Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	They should have huge blinking neon signs saying "Little Buffy Went To Heaven Here, Her Little Arms Twisting Everso".
Shemeji Yabara		#34	[-]
Posts: 168 (06/07/09 7:54 PM) Non Sequitur Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Mrpoopypants wrote: If it helps loved ones while they are grieving what do I care .... Not just loved ones. . . public safety
dmb154678		#35	[-]
Posts: 32633 (06/07/09 7:56 PM) Sexy asshole Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	there are a few of these up and down the road that most of the kids take back and forth to eldest's miss dmb's college. it's creepy and sad, but i sorta understand it on the parts of the families. it's mostly corn fields anyway.
Mrpoopypants		#36	[-]
Posts: 1925 (06/07/09 7:58 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Shemeji Yabara wrote: Mrpoopypants wrote: If it helps loved ones while they are grieving what do I care .... Not just loved ones. . . public safety well if it helps public safety too all the better ..what better way to make people aware of how dangerous an curve or intersection can be ...
Shemeji Yabara		#37	[-]
Posts: 170 (06/07/09 8:00 PM) Non Sequitur Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Usually people get killed at the same intersections, just bad planning. Memorials draw attention to the fact that city planners aren't doing their jobs and in general should be shot or fired in that order.
Etxeverria		#38	[-]
Posts: 805 (06/07/09 8:05 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	They have them all over the place out here in California. They are normally on curves or areas with small lanes, and what that causes is for people to get distracted and almost crash, I would really not like them to be there, but it is hard to put myself in the shoes of people that have a reason to do this, it probably helps them cope with their loss.
Shemeji Yabara		#39	[-]
Posts: 173 (06/07/09 8:19 PM) Non Sequitur Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I've been meaning to ask you--nice flag, what country (to lazy or illiterate to look it up)?
Axle the Bulldog		#40	[-]
Posts: 838 (06/07/09 8:20 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	But I suppose they all deserved to die, didn't they Axle? Meh. I have little sympathy for fuckwits. Since when do we need roadside memorials to remind us to drive safe? If you can't figure that out on your own, then you are a fuckwit. If you are gazing at some memorial on the side of the road pondering about the poor fellow, instead of watching the road yourself, then it's not exactly a good safety trick then, is it?

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