Roadside Memorial

Must have been a real slow news day.

There's an article on WAFF's website in which they gave the ladies name. She should be worried, there's some crazy people out there. Going by the FaceBook remarks made in that article, people are very angry over what she did.

Yeah, they're making too much of it. In one of the videos the crosses are black, and you can see weeds grown up around and in between them, looks like everything else is mowed and neat. Then in other photos the crosses are different and no weeds or grass in them. So who knows how neat they were kept. Anyway, after 13 years it shouldn't matter if they were taken down. I tend to agree with some who said 6 months, a year maybe, then take them down. The family can build memorials in the cemetery or even in their own yards. IF it was me, that would mean more to me and i wouldn't even want anything on the road. I bet too, if they had just been taken down and nothing said by the family, very few people would have even noticed they were gone. I still can't see what makes this a news story.

Comments like the one below are just stupid. This poster seems to have some messed up thinking going on.

It could be that the relatives feel guilty for the deaths someway or maybe how they treated them badly or something and this is the way they feel will relieve them of the guilt. If you go by the law the crosses are illegal, do we obey the law or not. Six months should be enough time for the crosses to be there. As someone said the flowers and etc. should be at the cemetary.

Emotions often run high after a loved one dies. We tend to try and hold on to whatever we have at that given moment. I understand it fully and completely. I have been there. 

I don't judge people this way. We are all only human. Anyone who claims otherwise is trying to pull the wool over your eyes. 

Think for yourself. Don't allow other's beliefs to rule and dictate your life. 

I agree it IS over-reacting. I guess I can just see both sides of many issues and it leaves me thinking and seeing the other side of the coin. 

Not always a good thing. 

I don't understand people who do this, isn't that what a cemetery is for? I don't blame the woman for complaining. They are usually an eyesore.

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I've never lost anyone to this kind of thing.

Thank Goodness.

Thus said, I can't say how I would react.

There is a "memorial" on Hwy 43...that has been there for ...forever.

Reminding people of a Loved One whom was killed by a Drunk Driver.

I do not judge their pain.

If it helps them...in any way...it doesn't bother me...