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Sad, isn't it? That a thug who attempted to take an officers gun and was shot and killed could be memorialized... Makes no sense to me...
This makes me question my very allegiance to this country. I mean.... It's unfathomable to me that we as a society are going to install a plaque memorializing this guy, despite the fact that he not only went and grabbed the officer's gun, but had hours before robbed a convenience store... Unreal.
This makes me question my very allegiance to this country. I mean.... It's unfathomable to me that we as a society are going to install a plaque memorializing this guy, despite the fact that he not only went and grabbed the officer's gun, but had hours before robbed a convenience store... Unreal.
I don't know how anyone of any color can defend this guy and keep a straight face while doing it.
I don't care about the plaque or if they tied ribbons or balloons to a tree but that old memorial sure was an eyesore. When I drove by it looked like an illegal dumping site. When did the tradition of throwing toys and stuffed animals at the scene of a death on the road start anyway ? Seems like a waste of money.
Where I come from, in communities like Michael Brown's, people used to fill up their cars with stuffed animals. When you got fiteen grandbabies jumping up and down in the back seat of your Caprice, the stuffed animals become a SAFETY FEATURE. In my old metro, there was always a Caprice knocking over a school bus, or an Electra 225 knocking over a city truck, or a Deville losing a fight with a gravel truck. Gramamma driving tended to be OK, because she had at least 200 pounds of natural cushioning built into her body (including ninnies so big they pressed against the steering wheel). But the grandbabies needed protection. And that's where the stuffed animals came in.
Enough stuffed animals mean that there is a cushioning layer of fur-covered foam flying though the air upon impact. This shields against broken glass, and reduces velocity for grandbabies ricocheting throughout the car's interior. And an enormous stuffed animal being held by a grandbaby at the moment of impact makes a fantastic substitute for an airbag. Balloons floating through the cabin are just as good as head restraints.
So, you can see how cheap, tacky stuffed animals and cushy balloons would come to be associated with SAFETY.
Leaving a mound of stuffed animals, with balloons wafting above, is a way of saying "SAFE JOURNEY!" to the departed, as he crosses into the Afterlife, in a spectral hooptieride.
Last edited by GrandviewGloria; 05-22-2015 at 08:51 AM..
Let's start a new part of this thread...
What would you like to see that city's name changed to?
I'd vote for: Thugsville
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