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re: Homemade roadside memorials are litter
Posted on 6/9/25 at 8:31 pm to weagle1999
Posted on 6/9/25 at 8:31 pm to weagle1999
Now I think about and we wouldn't have three wooden crosses by randy Travis. Was a great song
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Posted on 6/9/25 at 8:44 pm to jamiegla1
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By Blue Bayou?
No. In dead man’s curve. That big white house with the lake in front. Has a concrete staircase type weir for the lake. Looks like it’s right on the property line with the next house.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 9:52 pm to weagle1999
While I agree with op that they are trashy but I know of an example that makes me empathize with the families.
Family members have to drive past the location every day. Without the memorial they would have a hard time coping daily when they drive by. Kinda makes the spot a happy memorial rather than a tragic daily reminder.
Family members have to drive past the location every day. Without the memorial they would have a hard time coping daily when they drive by. Kinda makes the spot a happy memorial rather than a tragic daily reminder.
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:03 pm to weagle1999
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It is public property, owned by all.
So the people who put up the memorial put it on the part they own?
Posted on 6/9/25 at 10:55 pm to weagle1999
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Homemade roadside memorials are litter
Montana does this right
This post was edited on 6/9/25 at 10:55 pm
Posted on 6/10/25 at 2:22 am to cubsfan5150
I kinda like them.I have a grandson getting close to driver license age,I point them out to him,tell him someone died right there driving stupid.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 7:42 am to travelgamer
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Why do you care how family memorializes their loved one, does it hinder your driving? Idiot found
It's called a cemetery. Memorialize your love ones there, not in the public right-of-way on the side of the road.
Yes, it does hinder everyone's driving by creating a distraction. Many traffic studies have shown that objects along the highway distracts drivers.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 9:01 am to weagle1999
You sound like a fricking bundle of joy to be around.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 9:20 am to weagle1999
We had a young deputy shot and killed here last month and there is a memorial about a half mile long on I-20 where it happened. It was nice about a week afterwards. Looks like hell now and its only been about a month. It will be there in some form 5 years from now. I get the sentiment and it is nice that the community comes together at such times but after a while it just becomes and eye sore. I suspect this one will turn into some sort of permanent marker....it impacted the area pretty deeply.
There is another one west of that one about 50 miles and someone has kept it up for about 5 years. It looks about like it did the day it was erected. It has solar lights on it so it is visible at night. I keep expecting the DOT to remove it but its been there at least 5 years. Most folks don't take that good of care of a gravesite LOL...
There is another one west of that one about 50 miles and someone has kept it up for about 5 years. It looks about like it did the day it was erected. It has solar lights on it so it is visible at night. I keep expecting the DOT to remove it but its been there at least 5 years. Most folks don't take that good of care of a gravesite LOL...
Posted on 6/10/25 at 9:22 am to Galactic Inquisitor
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Agreed, and it's trashy. I don't need a memorial where I bled out. Hell, who needs a memorial at all other than the human ego?
Memorials. funerals and cemeteries ain't for dead folks they are for live folks. Dead folks problems are solved. they have no worries or concerns as far as we know. Those still alive, on the other hand, not so much....
Posted on 6/10/25 at 9:23 am to weagle1999
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Can I erect a memorial to my pet who was hit by a car?
I doubt many people would mind...
Posted on 6/10/25 at 9:29 am to weagle1999
At the entrance of my neighborhood, a 16 year old girl was killed when she crossed the centerline and head-on'd another vehicle. It was on Christmas Day night.
Terrible tragedy and unspeakable grief for the family. I had children her same age, driving there daily, so it hit close to home.
A memorial went up quickly on our HOA maintained property. It grew quickly with all kinds of stuffed animals, potted flowers, lights, posters, sports equipment. It was nearly enough stuff to fill a pick up truck.
I felt so bad for the fam, but after seeing this pile of faded & wet stuff for months, it began to annoy me. I never did anything or removed anything but it must have annoyed someone else too, because a few days after the one year anniversary, it was removed. There's nothing there now. I think no one would be annoyed with a small cross or something, but I do not think they were religious, because there was never any religious symbols at the memorial.
Terrible tragedy and unspeakable grief for the family. I had children her same age, driving there daily, so it hit close to home.
A memorial went up quickly on our HOA maintained property. It grew quickly with all kinds of stuffed animals, potted flowers, lights, posters, sports equipment. It was nearly enough stuff to fill a pick up truck.
I felt so bad for the fam, but after seeing this pile of faded & wet stuff for months, it began to annoy me. I never did anything or removed anything but it must have annoyed someone else too, because a few days after the one year anniversary, it was removed. There's nothing there now. I think no one would be annoyed with a small cross or something, but I do not think they were religious, because there was never any religious symbols at the memorial.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 9:30 am to MISSOURI WALTZ
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Roadside memorials are bad. So are decals on rear windows and Adopt-A-Highway signs.
So you knew and loved someone who died. Big deal! Who hasn't? Buy a headstone and move on.
I suspect there is a lot of truth in this. The memorials in the back window have always seemed a little dark to me. Death is part of life and the rare person who has not lost someone near and dear to them is fortunate....but hanging onto that with outward signs of grief for years and years after the fact seems unhealthy, to me and only me, y'all do y'all by all means.
I visit a graveyard where several family members are buried a couple of times a year. I am always amazed at some of the grave markers...fish jumping, deer heads, all manner of stuff. Not put out by it but its always been interesting. My FILs marker has a bass jumping at a dragonfly with cat tails and rings in the water...all colored appropriately. There used to be a seafood place on the way to Tybee Island with a near identical neon sign....I have always thought it was the inspiration for his marker LOL. I saw one once with two pigs square dancing and did some research and the man who was buried there owned a BBQ shack LOL....Its all part of the grieving process
Posted on 6/10/25 at 9:31 am to weagle1999
sometimes I think it is more about the people doing it to get attention for themselves, just like the ones that put big memorial stickers across their back windows on vehicles
Posted on 6/10/25 at 9:34 am to weagle1999
My parents had to move to get away from where my eldest sister died in a car crash.
It was less than 1/2 mile away from their house on the road they drove 99% of the time every day they left the house. Mom was literally walking headfirst into walls she was so grieving in that house. She just simply didn’t see the walls anymore. (She drove up on the wreck on her way home for lunch with sis.)
It was less than 1/2 mile away from their house on the road they drove 99% of the time every day they left the house. Mom was literally walking headfirst into walls she was so grieving in that house. She just simply didn’t see the walls anymore. (She drove up on the wreck on her way home for lunch with sis.)
Posted on 6/10/25 at 9:52 am to weagle1999
maybe concentrate on actual litter? There isn't an intersection in La. that isn't full of trash.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 11:34 am to CSATiger
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sometimes I think it is more about the people doing it to get attention for themselves, just like the ones that put big memorial stickers across their back windows on vehicles
EXACTLY
Posted on 6/10/25 at 11:40 am to weagle1999
You do realize that a person grieving the loss of a child does not give a shite about your feelings, right?
Posted on 6/10/25 at 11:46 am to Stevo
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Let them grieve. It's not that big of a deal compared to what the family is dealing with.
Agree.
Though I'm surprised the city workers don't mow right over them after a while. Figured they'd get tired of cutting and weedeating around them.
Posted on 6/10/25 at 1:12 pm to weagle1999
A little over eight months ago, a young man on a motorcycle lost his life when he hit a power pole on the front easement of my property. After getting permission from me, his family made a small memorial on the backside of the ditch by the pole. I don't care how long it stays out there as long as it helps his family deal with the loss.
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