Another roadside attraction

Driving or riding in Milton Keynes lately I'm seeing more roadside tributes to the victims of road traffic accidents. Not just floral tributes either, mini flower gardens with toys and nick-nacks, there's even a model windmill at one site.

I'm told there's been a simmering row in the local paper between people petitioning the council to get them cleared away and "bereaved family and friends" tearfully insisting on the right to pay tribute to young Dwayne and his passengers.

This is litter. At best it's cellophane and rotting vegetation, at worst it's fly-tipping.

Stop fucking crying because the neighbours friends cousin's lad crashed his Nova. The location of most of these shrines will tell an experienced driver a little bit about the nature of the accident. Some twat driving way too fast in an unroadworthy vehicle will cover it.

Don't bother sparing a thought for the old couple they ploughed into, after all "they'd had a good innings" and young Dwayne had so much life ahead of him. He was finally turning his life around, staying out of trouble and doing the right thing by Charlene, hence the three-foot floral 'DAD'.

They would have been okay if they'd worn seatbelts, but that was our Dwayne, a rebel. Place a Burberry cap at the roadside and remember him.