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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2018-05-28 11:13 PM, wrote:
> On Monday, May 28, 2018 at 9:51:32 PM UTC-5, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>>
>> I drove from SW to NE Montana in the late sixties with my father. West
>> Yellowstone through Billings and Miles City into Williston, ND was the
>> route. Everywhere along there, the state posted crosses wherever
>> someone had died. If many had, there were that number of crosses at the
>> point that the accident occurred. I'll never forget them.
>> That type of reminder is no longer politically correct.
>>
>> leo
>>
>>
> I see those crosses around here all the time. Politically correct??
> Was that meant as a joke?
>

There are a number of crosses and mini shrines at the locations of
fatal crashes. Unfortunately, the tend to be commemorating the victims
of their own misfortune, so they are more like monuments to stupidity.
For instance, a car whose drunk driver missed a gentle turn and hit
another car head on, a couple of incidents where cars travelling at
high speeds rolled on turns, a speeding motorcycle that wiped out on a
curve and slid under a truck, and one whose driver was texting when she
missed the curve and rolled in a ditch.