I agree. Where I live in PA, it started with a cross or ribbon on the side of the road where someone died. The state didn’t take the memorials away, perhaps out of the well-intentioned but ultimately misguided belief that it would remind motorists that people die on the highway. But then they started expanding with candles and flowers and other things that you would put at a grave. The beer doesn’t surprise me. If that is what this woman liked in life, people are going to put it there on the memorial. Once the state starts allowing this on the roadside, it opens a Pandora’s box. I think they should be removed, or the people putting it there should be politely told to put it on the grave instead.
I absolutely detest these road side memorials. It is almost as though the person who died was buried where they died. We passed by one such shrine not long ago to see that several cars had pulled off the highway and appeared to be having a party or commemoration of some sort - beside an extremely busy highway - and a State Trooper had pulled over to tell them to leave. I’m sure it didn’t go well as we could see beer cans and bottles in everyone’s hands.
It may be insensitive of me but I have an urge to completely destroy those things and wish that they were not allowed at all.
Peach