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[m-fallenangel.livejournal.com]

First one reminds me of an Onion headline I saw quite a while ago. It went something like: "Mourners Leave Pile of Tacky Shit at Site of Untimely Death"

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen one like that. I've seen flowers, but not a whole pile of stuffed animals like that.

[miladyelizabeth.livejournal.com]

They often leave stuffed animals when it is a small child...

On a lighter note - the whoopies sound great! We picked up something at that same store called "Hermits" a few weeks back. LOL

[m-fallenangel.livejournal.com]

Dude, EVERY time someone under 25 dies in AZ, it's like a carnival supply truck flipped over.

[oheunoia.livejournal.com]

omg. when i went to stop & shop my ex got so excited when he saw the junior whoopie pies. he bought them and ate them in the car. i was so disgusted, even as he implored me to try one: "but they don't have gelatin in them!" eww.

heart,
Petra*

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

This was the first time I'd ever noticed them! They look like shit sandwiches!

[dichotomous.livejournal.com]

Oooh! That reminds me, I must take my camera to work tomorrow... I saw the *best* sign at a convenience store this morning.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Don't forget!

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

That first pic is sad and surreal at the same time.

Are whoopie pies anything like scooter pies?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I know--that was exactly my take. I didn't know exactly what was going on, but I figured someone had to have died. See my other comment below to read the story.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

HAHA, I've no idea--I'd never heard of either one until tonight! Neither of them sounds particularly like something I'd want to eat.

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

I said scooter pie, not cooter pie. ;) Actually, a scooter pie (aka moon pie) is sort of like a s'more minus the graham cracker.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

OK, Moon Pies I know. I'm from the south, remember, where an RC and a Moon Pie is considered quite the treat in some circles.

[faerie.livejournal.com]

Vinny needs to lighten up a bit.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yeah he do, with his The Hills Have Eyes-lookin' ass.

[4hour-ramona.livejournal.com]

does vinny have a shiner?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think BOTH his eyes look like that--it seems those dark circles are natural!

[mediajam.livejournal.com]

Someone here in Providence did an art exhibit of scenes like the first picture. He rode his bike around a bad area or anyplace in the city where someone got shot on the street and took pictures of the sidewalk shrines over the course of a year or something like that. Pretty neat exhibit.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Wow, that does sound interesting. I felt like a gawking idiot taking pictures of it, but I'd really never seen anything quite like that.

[mellancholie.livejournal.com]

is that where those kids died last year>? i was right down the street. a million ambulence police etc. sad

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

No, this is from something that happened on the next block from my apt. on Whalley. the other night. I was coming home from the grocery and saw that they had the block cordoned off and there were all sorts of emergency vehicles right near the McDonald's. I just figured the fryer caught on fire or something.

Then I passed there and saw that shrine tonight. Didn't put two and two together till after I got home, but it turns out it was all about this:

NEW HAVEN — While grieving friends and relatives of Daniel Herring Wednesday continued to build a shrine on the Whalley Avenue sidewalk where he died, police tried to reconstruct how he was thrown off his motorcycle.

Herring, 23, of uncertain address, was killed Monday at about 10:20 p.m. as he was riding by the McDonald’s restaurant at 1094 Whalley Ave.

Police said they are uncertain whether or not Herring collided with another vehicle.

"We had no direct witnesses come forward Monday night," said Police Lt. Christopher Kelly.

"We’re looking for the public’s help."

Anybody with information is urged to call 946-6316 or use the anonymous TIPS line: 866-TIPS (8477).

Police Officer Robert Crisco, who reconstructs motor vehicle accidents, called the case "a big jigsaw puzzle. There are many variables."

Crisco said Herrick lived at 24 Admiral St. in New Haven, but a check showed there was no such address.

Meanwhile, on the sidewalk where Herrick landed, about 50 candles have been placed as well as bouquets of flowers, stuffed animals and a message: "Rest in peace, D-Love." This was Herring’s nickname.

"He was hard-working, not a street kid," said a woman who had known Herrick for years. She declined to give her name.

"I last saw him at a cook-out around the 4th of July," she added. "He just gave me a hug and said hi."

The woman said Herrick was wearing a helmet Monday night, "but it split in half."

Kathy Robles, who lives across the street from the accident site, said she and several of her family were upstairs at their home Monday when "we heard this boom."

She said they ran outside and saw Herrick lying across the street on the sidewalk.

"By the time we got over there," she said, "there was already a puddle of blood."

Robles said Herrick was not talking or moving.

"My sister, who’s a nurse, tried to take his pulse. She couldn’t find a pulse at all."

Robles, whose boyfriend knew Herrick, said he had been planning to get married soon.

[miladyelizabeth.livejournal.com]

Well scratch the comment about small kids then...

Though interesting to note: you use the phrase "the grocery" too, instead of grocery store. HA! Good to know I'm not the only one.

[hauntedskipper.livejournal.com]

How is that so many people knew him but no one knows where he lived?
What a bizarre story, eh?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I know! Very strange. They can't even seem to get his name straight--the article starts off calling him Herring and then switches to Herrick. And how could someone have such an accident that his helmet splits open and nobody sees anything? Weird.

[thefirstman.livejournal.com]

I nearly ran over that shrine this morning on my way back from NYC.

THAT would have been a slap in the face.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Yikes!! No shit, man, and you'd probably have the whole neighborhood after you.

[hauntedskipper.livejournal.com]

Hey Chris, what are those white things on the ground amongst the candles?
Is it just paper trash or are they chalk drawings?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Not sure! I guess it's just trash. There wasn't a chalk outline of the body, if you mean that kind of drawing.