Man Caught After Removing Roadside Memorial
Discussion
A few years back my brother in law was looking at a house that needed renovation
Directly outside the traveller community had erected a large stone memorial that would have made access an issue as a driveway needed to be created
He backed out of the sale after veiled threats were made to him and his family from the travellers
The house is still unsold and I think unsalable because of it
Directly outside the traveller community had erected a large stone memorial that would have made access an issue as a driveway needed to be created
He backed out of the sale after veiled threats were made to him and his family from the travellers
The house is still unsold and I think unsalable because of it
p4cks said:
As an aside and call me insensitive if you want but it has always baffled me why any grieving member of a family would want to immortalise the exact place where a loved one died (or didn't as they could have later died in hospital or on the way) in a horrific accident
I don't understand this either but I've never had to deal with this situation and hopefully neither of us will. I'm also not an absolute a
hole who thinks that how a family grieves is any of my business and if the police and council are happy for it to be there then I should keep out of it.Not having a go at you.
p4cks said:
As an aside and call me insensitive if you want but it has always baffled me why any grieving member of a family would want to immortalise the exact place where a loved one died (or didn't as they could have later died in hospital or on the way) in a horrific accident
^^^ That. It is quite probably the most puzzling behaviour in common practice. I can understand that people want to mark and memorialise a final resting place or a favourite location with a bench (or similar) but why would anyone want a constant reminder of the place they died, probably horribly.Most roadside shrines are fantastically tacky and border on littering or fly-tipping and, IMO, should be removed immediately they appear.
Of course, other opinions are available.
When I see these abroad, often on holiday islands, it amazes me how many shrines can often be in one place. I’ll see hairpin bends that drop off a clidd that look like a miniature housing estate with dozens of these little boxes with candles in them. You’d think someone would do something about making the corner safer, rather than hoping the shrines stop someone else piling over the edge.
Strangely Brown said:
p4cks said:
As an aside and call me insensitive if you want but it has always baffled me why any grieving member of a family would want to immortalise the exact place where a loved one died (or didn't as they could have later died in hospital or on the way) in a horrific accident
^^^ That. It is quite probably the most puzzling behaviour in common practice. I can understand that people want to mark and memorialise a final resting place or a favourite location with a bench (or similar) but why would anyone want a constant reminder of the place they died, probably horribly.Most roadside shrines are fantastically tacky and border on littering or fly-tipping and, IMO, should be removed immediately they appear.
Of course, other opinions are available.
And it is made worse by the addition of plastic tat which to me seems totally inappropriate.
However I accept that some will have other views and I would not go around looking for shrines to tidy up. Although I would not be happy if one was created in my road, so I suppose I am inconsistent.
The whole roadside shrine concept is weird. Loads of people die in hospital but I've never walked into a ward and seen a shrine.
But death makes people do weird stuff. Like the crucifix being the symbol of Christianity. They couldn't have picked anything more insensitive. Imagine being the CEO of one of Princess Diana's charities and saying "we need a rebrand, and we should change our emblem to an S Class Merc embedded in a concrete pillar".
But death makes people do weird stuff. Like the crucifix being the symbol of Christianity. They couldn't have picked anything more insensitive. Imagine being the CEO of one of Princess Diana's charities and saying "we need a rebrand, and we should change our emblem to an S Class Merc embedded in a concrete pillar".
mac96 said:
Strangely Brown said:
p4cks said:
As an aside and call me insensitive if you want but it has always baffled me why any grieving member of a family would want to immortalise the exact place where a loved one died (or didn't as they could have later died in hospital or on the way) in a horrific accident
^^^ That. It is quite probably the most puzzling behaviour in common practice. I can understand that people want to mark and memorialise a final resting place or a favourite location with a bench (or similar) but why would anyone want a constant reminder of the place they died, probably horribly.Most roadside shrines are fantastically tacky and border on littering or fly-tipping and, IMO, should be removed immediately they appear.
Of course, other opinions are available.
And it is made worse by the addition of plastic tat which to me seems totally inappropriate.
However I accept that some will have other views and I would not go around looking for shrines to tidy up. Although I would not be happy if one was created in my road, so I suppose I am inconsistent.
k nobody has thought to turn places in hospitals where people have died into shrines, otherwise most places in most hospitals would just be shrines with no space left to treat patients. 
TwigtheWonderkid said:
The whole roadside shrine concept is weird. Loads of people die in hospital but I've never walked into a ward and seen a shrine.
But death makes people do weird stuff. Like the crucifix being the symbol of Christianity. They couldn't have picked anything more insensitive. Imagine being the CEO of one of Princess Diana's charities and saying "we need a rebrand, and we should change our emblem to an S Class Merc embedded in a concrete pillar".
You dont have much of an understanding of Christianity if you don't understand the significance of the cross but hey. But death makes people do weird stuff. Like the crucifix being the symbol of Christianity. They couldn't have picked anything more insensitive. Imagine being the CEO of one of Princess Diana's charities and saying "we need a rebrand, and we should change our emblem to an S Class Merc embedded in a concrete pillar".
Otherwise yes roadside shrines are fly tipping and should be treated as such. Also the same with flowers, it's just a different form of littering.
Roadside shrines = council.
paulw123 said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
The whole roadside shrine concept is weird. Loads of people die in hospital but I've never walked into a ward and seen a shrine.
But death makes people do weird stuff. Like the crucifix being the symbol of Christianity. They couldn't have picked anything more insensitive. Imagine being the CEO of one of Princess Diana's charities and saying "we need a rebrand, and we should change our emblem to an S Class Merc embedded in a concrete pillar".
You dont have much of an understanding of Christianity if you don't understand the significance of the cross but hey. But death makes people do weird stuff. Like the crucifix being the symbol of Christianity. They couldn't have picked anything more insensitive. Imagine being the CEO of one of Princess Diana's charities and saying "we need a rebrand, and we should change our emblem to an S Class Merc embedded in a concrete pillar".
TwigtheWonderkid said:
But death makes people do weird stuff. Like the crucifix being the symbol of Christianity. They couldn't have picked anything more insensitive. Imagine being the CEO of one of Princess Diana's charities and saying "we need a rebrand, and we should change our emblem to an S Class Merc embedded in a concrete pillar".
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