http://www.drivewithcare.com/

Sorry but that's just funny.

Yea, no "cyclist" memorial?

Seriously though. Pretty dumb and tasteless.

-D

http://www.drivewithcare.com/


Hilarious.

Mexico has tons of real roadside memorials. I remember stopping at one (on a particularly bad section of mountain road) and it was like a miniature shrine. You could walk inside it.

Here in Miami there is a large Mexican/Central American population and the roadside memorials got so out of hand, the DOT had to intervene and promulgate standards for size, set-back etc. Now its just a generic cross with a name that you are allowed to display.

I don't get why people would want to mark the exact place where a loved one died in a car crash. No one ever marks where someone got knifed to death in a bar, or the hospital bed someone died in.

Yea, no "cyclist" memorial?

Seriously though. Pretty dumb and tasteless.

-D

That's because we already have 'em those white "ghost" bicycles you see on every corner in some cities....

As for Bob Fuller, well, that is a joke site right?

Seriously though. Pretty dumb and tasteless.

-D

Depends on how you look at it. You might think that the slaughtering of hundreds of innocent cyclists and pedestrians by careless motorists is pretty dum and tasteless as well. Sites like this help draw attention to the epidemic of idiotic, deadly drivers that are on the road. I'm all in favor of it.

Its always kinda funny until you've experienced death up close and personal. I myself got the hilarity of waking up just as a young boy smashed into the windshield in front of me.

Gosh I laughed about that for years. Even today I call my friend up and we reminisces about it.

Its always kinda funny until you've experienced death up close and personal. I myself got the hilarity of waking up just as a young boy smashed into the windshield in front of me.

Gosh I laughed about that for years. Even today I call my friend up and we reminisces about it.

That doesn't sound very funny.

Fake site.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/103072,CST-NWS-roadside19.article

The company, whose ads recently began appearing on public access television, is actually a front for an unusual traffic safety campaign sponsored by the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation.

Randy Neufeld, the Healthy Streets Campaign coordinator, said he knows the use of satire will offend some people but, "This campaign is basically designed to get people who aren't interested in hearing a safe driving message a safe driving message."

San Rensho - I always assumed they mark the exact spot to remind people to drive more carefully. Showing that someone died "right here" jolts some people into the reality.

Hawaii is big on roadside memorials put up by family and friends. Most are where drivers managed to kill themselves and/or their friends while they were racing, driving drunk or just plain speeding and lost control hitting a tree, pole or flipped in a ditch.

My reaction to the website is that it might just get the message to one person and save one life. If so, the web site is OK by me.

If you really want to know what tasteless is; it was a roadside memorial in Honolulu for a motorcyclist who killed himself by riding drunk. His friends left several full beer bottles at the memorial.

Fake site.

What do you mean fake? Its real as far as I can tell and run by an street safety organization - the only thing 'fake' is the pretend memorial service, thats to get folks attention. Check out the links on it.


edit: oops, i re-read you post and you noted, this, but to be correct anyway, this is not a fake site

Al

On one of the counrty roads that I cycle there is a memorial cross. It marks the spot where a friend's future daughter inlaw died when a F250 pickup crossed a double yellow in a curve and hit her head-on. She was cycling with her fiance and some friends. It is a very somber reminder of just how careful you need to be.