No disrespect..but just curious,
 

Is this a south Florida , or southern thing ?
I've noticed these stickers on the back of mostly pick up trucks and ricers, and mostly since 9/11...but are these window stickers showing up in any other parts of the country?

"In the memory of...(insert deceaseds' name...and the dates they lived)"
....like a tombstone on the back of the car window.

Again; I just don't get it. To me that's a bit disrespectful to the person who passed away....like people on the road want to see this????

I understand the "Remember the NY Firefighters."; but "Remember Chocolate Vinny"...????? Again no disrespect, but to me this is not the right place for a memoriam.....and who wants to see it?

Lack of taste and decorum know no geographical boundaries.

It happens out here too. (AZ) I don't know. I think it's kinda like biker patches that say "In memory of Spider" etc., just a wider audience. The one I didn't get was the one that said "In memory of Steve P. Miss you big brother. Loud pipes, Big rims" which I would have somehow understood if the car in question looked like Steve's beloved ride of whatever type; but it was a bone stock Toyota...

Markers, decorated with faded plastic flowers, memorializing a traffic death. I never saw those anywhere when I was a kid except in MX. Now they're all over. Is this a custom introduced by our southern neighbors?

B

Unfortunatly, white trash permeates our society. Look at what's on cable tv. Florida has it's fair share. When my family(from western europe) came to Florida to visit Disney they were horrified. Florida is a cesspool, I wish I could catch the guy who has been stealing my garbage for three years. I am pretty sure it's the hick that lives a few houses down.

WOW. That is SO refreshing to hear.....I am from NYC; and horrified is an accurate word to describe the trash in Florida.........

Now I want one that says, "Remember the Night Rider."

Maybe I can get it from Mel Gibson's publisist

The trash isn't esclusively white......take a look at the people who were looting New Orleans....

Trash knows no racial bariers. Its equal oportunity.

The "In Memory" stickers on rear windows isn't a geographic thing, we have them out here. There was an article in the newspaper about them. It turns out that they are the result of improvements in the sign printing business. With the advent of computer controlled die cut equipment, sign makers have been promoting the rear window decals.

While some have called me trash, I don't agree with them. :)

Generalizing comes to mind when I hear that.

Having said that, one of my pet peeves is seeing someone using their car as a memorial to a deceased person.

That and putting an ad in the obituaries on the anniversary of their death.

Dear Bonehead, it's been a year since you passed, etc...."

They get the paper in the afterlife? Never crossed my mind.

As far as roadside memorials go, there was a girl a couple of years ago, who was visiting the site of her friends death, and got run over. There are a hazard that should not be allowed. Unfortunately, the state allows it here and actually will sell you a plaque.

Whatever happened to visiting the grave site? Why the place they died?

Had they passed in a bathroom, would they have a memorial in a restaurant?

We passed one a few weeks ago that was so adorned with balloons that my friend asked" where's the party?" in the middle of the hwy.


:pukeface: :pukeface: :pukeface: :pukeface: :pukeface: to roadside memorials.

Only in red-neck states!

Oh..you mean all those Kerry-Edwards stickers?

I have never seen the memorial type stickers here in Texas.

Having the family name in fancy scroll plastered on the rear window of a pickup is popular among the vatos around here though.

I have a in memorial sticker on my truck. "In Memorial Kerry-Edwards"

Do you have a bell that rings everytime someone posts?

Lol! I think he does. It's actually a voice that goes off in his head.

"Ding! Liberal bashing time"

No....but I've got a real good intuition.

It's sort of the inverse of the ceaseless Bush-bashing. You know what I mean. Childish, gratuitous, rationally unsupported baseless innuendo or accusation.

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I don't have a picture of such a decal "in the wild", but here's a link to an outfit that sells them: memorial decals (first page of several).

I like this one.....http://imagescommerce.bcentral.com/m...ladenshead.gif






and this one..http://imagescommerce.bcentral.com/m...rsaddamshd.gif






But this one says it all..



http://imagescommerce.bcentral.com/m...intofview1.gif

I have one similar to the first one on the camper shell on my pickup.

I do really need to get one of those three however..............



I did have one of these on a previous car.........

http://imagescommerce.bcentral.com/m...0of%20fact.jpg

I have one that says, "Help Stop Continental Drift."

B

I like ; "If I Passed you on the right,
You're in the wrong lane!"

I ask you again Sir, what is wrong with Italian suppositories?

Resistance is futile (if < 1 ohm).

Sure there are...I think ANY vehicle with a "3" on the rear windshield constitutes a memorial-type sticker...for God's sake, the man has been dead for years!!!

Yep, I guess you're right about that, those things are all over the place around here.

OK I've decided that I don't wanna see any more rednecks in pick up trucks.........I hate those "3's" too.......I will move to the NorthWest asap...

1st I'm gonna get one of those peace signs for my windshield..........

Great idea, plus it would raise the IQ of both regions.

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then you run into the burnouts from the 60's................you will have one or the other....

True. However white trash has a unique attitude that must be witnessed to believe. Along the lines of: POT KETTLE BLACK.

why yes, after all, the bat cave is highly advanced.

I doubt the avg. IQ in Fl is even close to 142.....

maybe around 85....

Give me the burnouts....I prefer microbrews over Bud lights..........

I wonder what the IQ was of the dude at a gas station in Florida who refused to sell me gas because I was driving a "nazi car", a 1970 VW bug. Or the new neighbor who assumed that my mom was the maid at the beach house my parents have owned for many years. Or the neighbor who once said that our family must be in the mafia because my dad drove a 1971 300SEL.

You didn't hear the fools talking at the Millions more rally in DC....and they were decidedly NOT light in complexion.

Are you saying the black people in new orleans are trash because they were 'looting'. Looting is a subjective term when describing what they were doing. I remember seeing pictures on Real time with bill maher showing blacks and whites in new orleans.There were 2 white people who were in waist deep water holding bread and something else. The caption below it said something to the extent of them 'finding' food at a local store to feed themselves. While a black kid with the same thing as 'looting' food from a local store.

anyway,

Are you a racist?

Saw an awefull lot of people hauling off non-food items....most of them were non whites...those big screen TV's and clothes are really needed for survival...right....

You haul off non food related items then you are a looter....and looters should be shot on sight.

and I hope they get their chance to cozy up to Bubba in a nice jail cell too.....

I did/ It's your opinion they were fools. Just like I have the opinion that there is alot of white trash out there.

I hope "bubba" gets his due from a big black dude.

Considering the source, this comment speaks for itself.

Isn't it obvious?

Have another drink. Frat boy.

Maybe some rich white frat boy lawyers also.

Please stop posting so much. With every post, you make me a little dumber. Couple million posts to go, I'll be as dumb as you.

Bubba is the big black dude....the one in jal for raping the neighbors farm animals and grandmother.

Every bubba I have ever seen has been a white cracker.

If my numerous posts bother you, you can ignore me. :D