On 26/11/2012 11:14 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> Curiously, in every case I know of where there are roadside shrines they
>> were cases of self destruction. They are not to the innocent victims who
>> were stuck by someone else's stupidity. They were speeding / drunk/
>> texting/ on the cell phone.
>
> When I was a kid, I lived in Europe. I remember
> in Yugoslavia that they would put little crosses
> at the side of the road where people had died.
> This was actually useful information. You'd
> go around a curve, see a bunch of crosses, and
> know to slow down. Yugoslavia is rather mountainous
> and they have lots of dangerous curves.
>


Maybe they should start putting up memorials at the bars where drunks
got loaded before crashing their cars.