One local council in Scotland has taken a stance to curb the large increase in soft toys, flowers and football scarves at memorial spots, where someone has died. You see it in every town and city up and down the country nowadays.

 

Is it being callous to think these should be kept for funerals or cemetries?

 

People who lay flowers, soft toys etc. often have no connection at all with the departed..................they are simply fuelling "grief tourism".

 

If someone who you've never met before dies, what possible purpose can contributing to a pile of trashy rubbish stacked next to a lampost achieve?

 

I think this all started after the Diana event at Buck house?

 

Do you agree with the council or do you think its ok?

its a continental thing bri...i saw flowers on dodgy mountain roads in france 20 years ago...

 

i agree, toys are tacky but flowers are ok.

It is the whole Diana culture rearing its ugly head

 

Public displays of grief for people never knew or met is becoming the norm since Diana

 

3 people died in a car crash in my area a few months back after hitting a tree on the way back from a race meeting and you would have almost thought the pope had died given the number of floral tributes, teddy bears and messages that were left by the tree, those that died lived 20 miles away so it just would have been locals from my town that were leaving these tributes and quite frankly what is the point ? no one in my town would have recognised them in the street if they walked past them while they were still alive

Edited August 25, 200717 yr by Vic Vega

A drunk 15 year old girl playing chicken at 2am on a road near here now has a constant pile of rotting flowers and mouldy teddies!!! Her mother complained when the council cleaned it up!! Maybe if she knew where her child was at 2am she would still have her daughter!!

 

I feel for the motorist who has to see a constant reminder, he was prosecuted as he was travelling slightly over the speed limit for the road - but then I doubt he expected anyone to run out in front of him.

 

 

I don't know if it's all over the country or it's just a rule my local council set but there is a rule that memorials can only stay up for 30 days then the council emove them, last year down one of the dual carrage ways there where rotting Whinny the Pooh bears for months.