[artichokegrower]

But the display early Monday of alcohol — a traditional tribute for some

A roadside tribute to drunk driver that killed a young boy on Christmas Day complete with beer cans. Ain't multi-culturalism grand?

[Mr. Douglas]

I’m kind of appalled at the placement of memorials at the side of the road for lost loved ones. I never saw it until I moved to KY. They are everywhere. And some have been up for many years, complete with solar powered lights.

That is what graveyards are for.

I’d like to see the governor ween the state off this sort of thing with a law permitting their placement to remain for a maximum of 90 days, followed a few years later by a law making them illegal.

Again, that is what graveyards are for.

[vladimir998]

Interesting comment at the drunk driver’s GoFundMe page:

$5
STOP DRIVING DRUNK
19 hours ago
STOP PUTTING ALCOHOL AT THE MEMORIAL WHERE A 14 YEAR OLD WAS MURDERED BY DRUNK DRIVER “PRIMA”. You are insensitive idiots. ALCOHOL CAUSED THIS and the boy’s family doesn’t need a reminder.

https://www.gofundme.com/33ecyc0

[BenLurkin]

Ugly “memorial” and even though it’s off the shoulder I bet it is still an encroachment.

[Nifster]

It’s a part of San Jose to stay away from

[VanShuyten]

“Ain’t multi-culturalism grand?”

Pouring alcohol on a friend or colleague’s grave has been a tradition for thousands of years in all of Europe, north to south, and in most of Eastern Asia. This tradition continued even after the introduction of Christianity to Europe, and only slowed down after Protestant puritanism associated liquor with the devil.

[Responsibility2nd]

Reminds me of the Michael Brown memorial set up in Ferguson. A memorial made up of liquor, thug items, trash and garbage.

How apporpriate.

[Robert DeLong]

I wonder if the texting didn’t play a part. She supposedly only had 2 drinks according to Johnny Ha, manager of El Rancho Sports Bar in San Jose. Of course that was at his bar and she may have had some earlier at another bar or elsewhere.

[Moonman62]

A roadside tribute to drunk driver that killed a young boy on Christmas Day complete with beer cans. Ain’t multi-culturalism grand?

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My impression is that it could be a Hispanic illegal alien tradition. Criticism would be insensitive, and typical of the new Trump era.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Not sure what to say about this. Probably in poor taste, especially for the teen that was killed as a result, but even to the fact it’s almost advertizing drinking as just another great pasttime. Which might be combined with driving and not be so great.

Generally, I long ago tired of roadside memorials. It became huge some 20 years ago. Now the things are all over. Distracting to traffic, I say, and cluttering. Although, I will say, there seems to be a downturn in these memorials recently, Hope so.

[wardaddy]

I think roadside crosses are fine

We’re not exactly overwhelmed with them in Tennessee but even the state does it

There is a natural time limit

I doubt many are up past five years if that

Those big hydraulic boom mowers and tree shredders are tough

Some folks especially mothers who lose a child on a road accident connect to the spot where their baby left the material world

I don’t have an issue with that in particular

Some don’t

If a child is killed on my frontage of my little horse joint I’ll be happy to let them put a cross up and help look after it

I know a woman in Nashville like this who would go to the spot where her 17 year old died ..,,she said she felt closest to him there and there is a large iron cross on the huge oak and the property owners are cool with it

So am i

Most states have regs on this so the Jefferson memorial showing up on 1-95 is not gonna happen

[smokingfrog]

We don’t know for sure she was drunk until the autopsy results are released. She could have been texting or dodging a squirrel for all we know.