Roadside Memorials....

Sleipnir

Found this looking for accomodation in Stradbally, oddly enough.

Everyone has driven past one at some time or another so here they are.

LINK

Stephen

what a weird pastime that guy has.

munkeehaven

in france , it's really disturbing because all along the roads they have black plastic figures representing all the people that died in accidents...this really upset me as i was on the road for nearly 10hours and all i saw were these deaths.....

RuggieBear

Originally posted by Sleipnir
Found this looking for accomodation in Stradbally, oddly enough.

Everyone has driven past one at some time or another so here they are.

LINK

I'm not sure what to think.....very strange hobby and i can't help but feel it's intrusive to those who have lost loved ones.....

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impr0v

What a morbid hobby.

smoke.me.a.kipper

very strange indeed.

mike65

Its always struck me that no-one else dose these things quite like the Irish do. I drive for a living so see a lot of them, some are just horrific in thier tacky extravigance.

Waterford-Tramore road A killing ground.

Mike.

RobertFoster

Originally posted by pekelly
i can't help but feel it's intrusive to those who have lost loved ones.....

if the people want to put up markers of where their loved ones died, to be reminded of it everytime they pass by, then it's not their problem if someone photographs them.

impr0v

Originally posted by mike65
Waterford-Tramore road A killing ground.

When I saw the title of Sleipnir's original post, one of those memorials was the first one that came to mind, despite having driven past it only twice.



It's close to the Waterford end of the Tramore Road, and really noticable.

RuggieBear

Originally posted by RobertFoster
if the people want to put up markers of where their loved ones died, to be reminded of it everytime they pass by, then it's not their problem if someone photographs them.

I suppose....but i still find it a bit morbid...

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Mossy Monk

what a ****ed up hobby

alleepally

Reading the guys introduction it seems like he's just commemorating the memory of people we speed by in our cars every day. Don't see anythng f***ed up about it really given his motivation for creating the site.

The Real B-man

sick

Lainey

everytime i pass one i have to bless myself..

dangerous driving whilst constantly blessing myself.. just feel i have to, don't know who i got that off..

PurpleFistMixer

That's a really gaudy hideous site for such a subject. I mean, it's one thing to go around logging all these memorials, but it's another thing to display them in such a manner. Eugh.

delly

At the entrance to my estate in Swords theres a headstone.
No offence to the people who put it there, but it annoys the **** out of me everytime I see it. You often see people tending the flowers around it as well.

Sleipnir

how could it possibly 'annoy' you?

delly

Because if I wanted to see headstones where I live, i'd have moved next to a graveyard.

I know that it represents someone that has died and I'm aware that someone has done it for a reason, but I think that as a home owner I have a right not to be confronted with a religious symbol of death everytime I leave my house.

I've seen smaller road signs having to abide by planning regulations, so why not headstones?

Frank Grimes

Originally posted by delly
I've seen smaller road signs having to abide by planning regulations, so why not headstones?

What makes you think they don't?
If you don't want to see the stone just ignore it as you pass by, the relatives obviously get some comfort out of having the thing there. Show some compassion for them rather than being so self absorbed.

uberwolf

the worst thing for me is all of his typo's, it really seems disrespectful because it demonstrates flippancy

Sleipnir

Originally posted by delly
Ibut I think that as a home owner I have a right not to be confronted with a religious symbol of death everytime I leave my house.

Well, .........you don't.

Of course if it has to be "me, me, me" why don't you complain to the family?

Wouldn't be too hard to find them (you could use the database above) and you could give them a really hard time
and then ask if they had applied for planning permission.
Would it make you feel better?

Or would you not have the guts?


What about that "religious" symbol in Omagh? Should we knock that down?

Or the War Memorial near the Phoenix Park? Bit of an eye-sore really.

delly

You don't have to live with it, so what makes your opinion right and mine wrong? I'm not saying it ruins my life, just that I don't like it on my doorstep.

Also, YOU asked for my reasons and I gave them, no need to get so smart about it and bring in something which is not related i.e. Omagh


People get abused for there religious believes everyday, I happen not to have any, surely thats my right?

ChipZilla

Crap site.

REGULAR VISITORS go here for a list of the latest locations added

What kind of morbid ba**ard would be a regular visitor on there? The same kind of person who listens to the death notices on Tipp Mid-West Radio?

What's the point of it?

robbie1876

Having gone out with a girl from Tipperary for a couple of years, I realised how death obsessed a lot of people down there are. I knew of many people in Tipp who start reading the paper by reading the death notices first, and then ring all their friends, "Mary, did you hear who just died!!" It's gossip at its lowest form, but its a habit for many people. These are the sort of people that would visit that site regularly.

I used to call them "Obituary Junkies!" (great name for a band perhaps?)

Blisterman

Down there, funerals are social events. My grandmother lives down there and she's always coming back from funerals talking about how she had a great time.