Ghost Bikes
Round my way, there's a bike painted white at the junction where someone was killed by a lorry. It's covered in gaudy tat and long-dead flowers and has been chained up there for at least a year.

Not only is it a fucking eyesore, but if I was killed riding by a bike, I wouldn't want people's lasting memory of me being defined by my death. To top it all off, it was his own fault for riding down the inside of a left-turning lorry, as so it's basically a shrine to his own stupidity.
(Sloppy Giuseppe, Thu 8 Mar 2012, 15:44, Reply)