roadside memorials

[low_delta]

Here's a story from The Onion about roadside memorials:
http://www.theonion.com/onion3717/fatal_auto_accident.html

Here's another story about them, that appeared several days later in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/may01/shrine22052101a.asp


Neither one is particularly in favor of them.

Comments

did you see this?

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

I didn't catch this when I read the newspaper article at home, but it mentions the Onion article:

The phenomenon of makeshift memorials has grown dramatically in recent years, filling medians and curbsides with tributes and memorabilia. Roadside shrines are such a visible part of the American landscape that they have become a field of academic study and even parody, by the likes of the satirical newspaper The Onion, which described the memorials as "hackneyed."

wow

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

No, I hadn't.

The author must have been highly amused that an article on the subject that he was working on came out in The Onion.