Quote Originally Posted by shytalk View Post
One thing is certain, there will be reprisals. The police don't want the memorial removed because it would cause a riot, what a load of bull. This is just giving in to these scum, maybe a confrontation with the police is what is needed. It is a sin that the public pay such high taxes to suport a police force that is so inefective. This needs to be stamped on now or more young lives will be tragically lost.
I don't agree with this fashion for laying flowers - for anyone. Even car crash scenes or sites where fatal accidents took place.
I don't know how this trend started.
The first time I ever saw flowers on a roadside was approx 10 or 12 years ago - maybe a bit longer. It was for that poor foreign student that was murdered on Scotland rd. Can't recall when it was.
I remember seeing the flowers and thinking that it was unusual as it wasn't normally done.
I never saw this happen years ago.
Gradually the trend grew and flowers began to appear in other places.
First it was for road death victims. Then the 'no-marks' cottoned on and started up these shrines for their Scally mates.



Of course, I feel every sorrow for the families of accident fatalities or murder victims - ( we have experience of it in my family) - But I can't see the attraction or reasoning to have public laying of flowers and personal obituaries.
A death in a family is a private thing and not for all and sundry to gawp over. I believe in dignity and privacy.

How many hundreds of trees, fences, etc have wilted flowers hanging off them ! Or some shrines are added to on a regular basis until they become some kind of macabre eye-sore.

- and where will it all end ? are people going to start laying flowers just about anywhere someone died ?? It's ridiculous.