Roadside crosses are usually put up because somebody died there due to a drunk driver accident. Sometimes the crosses are decorated with all sorts of stuff like artificial flowers, teddy bears, etc. and mini-shrines. These are put up without permission on public road r-o-w's. They belong in a cemetary not on a roadside. They're morbid. They're distracting to drivers. They're ugly. I've removed quite a lot of them right along with all the other bandit signs. Truly, you can't say these should be let alone.

Take a look.

Comments?

I have to admit guys. I came to this site after reading the story in the Katy paper.

I'll go on record here. If I'm killed by a drunk driver please don't put up a cross with a teddy bear and flowers. Please donate that money to a deserving organization. Give the teddy bear to a child at Christmas that may not get any other gifts. Or donate the money to an organization like MADD that actually works to prevent drunk drivers from ripping apart families. I'd hate to be remembered by a dirt covered pile of stuff at the side of the road.

>I'll go on record here. If I'm killed by a drunk driver
>please don't put up a cross with a teddy bear and flowers.
>Please donate that money to a deserving organization. Give
>the teddy bear to a child at Christmas that may not get any
>other gifts. Or donate the money to an organization like
>MADD that actually works to prevent drunk drivers from
>ripping apart families. I'd hate to be remembered by a dirt
>covered pile of stuff at the side of the road.


I would think that if you saw a teddy bear stuck to a roadside cross a child was killed at that location. I just don't see why someone would use one for an adult.

Would you like to see 8 foot brick walls around graveyards so you don't have to look at all the flowers, teddy bears and dirt when you drive by?

>>I'll go on record here. If I'm killed by a drunk driver
>>please don't put up a cross with a teddy bear and flowers.
>>Please donate that money to a deserving organization. Give
>>the teddy bear to a child at Christmas that may not get any
>>other gifts. Or donate the money to an organization like
>>MADD that actually works to prevent drunk drivers from
>>ripping apart families.

http://www.madd.org/news/0,1056,2428,00.html

MADD would argue that a memorial marker is no more distracting and no more trouble to mow around than other highway markers and billboards. Furthermore, if the sight of a memorial makes drivers think more carefully about safe driving, they will serve an important purpose.


http://www.madd.org/news/0,1056,2611,00.html


You were saying???

The loss of a child is tragic. No two ways about it.

>Would you like to see 8 foot brick walls around graveyards
>so you don't have to look at all the flowers, teddy bears
>and dirt when you drive by?

The last I heard, there aren't any cemetaries in the right-of-way.

The problem is unauthorized material in the right-of-way. Objections to that are content-neutral.