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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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How many of you live in places where people decorate their cars as driving memorials to dead teenagers?

This is a phenomenon I first noticed around here about 5-6 years ago. Whereas your stereotyped Latino used to only have his Our Lady of Guadalupe icon on the back windshield (or Chivas or Club America), suddenly a bunch of people started appearing with epitaphs on their rear windshields for dead teens. Many of the names Latino, all of them teens. A lot of SUVs, but even simpler sedans like this Mazda I caught below this evening.

In a place like Cali or Texas I'm guessing this is pretty common and old hat. But I am curious how far this phenomenon goes.

Needless to say, I find it bizarre on multiple levels. Not the least of which is why so many cars are decorated with the names and birth/death dates of dead teenagers.
 

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Oct 11, 2005
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How many of you live in places where people decorate their cars as driving memorials to dead teenagers?

This is a phenomenon I first noticed around here about 5-6 years ago. Whereas your stereotyped Latino used to only have his Our Lady of Guadalupe icon on the back windshield (or Chivas or Club America), suddenly a bunch of people started appearing with epitaphs on their rear windshields for dead teens. Many of the names Latino, all of them teens. A lot of SUVs, but even simpler sedans like this Mazda I caught below this evening.

In a place like Cali or Texas I'm guessing this is pretty common and old hat. But I am curious how far this phenomenon goes.

Needless to say, I find it bizarre on multiple levels. Not the least of which is why so many cars are decorated with the names and birth/death dates of dead teenagers.
I think I've seen that once and it was in DC.
 

Itztli

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May 12, 2011
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OK, I got one for everybody...

How many of you live in places where people decorate their cars as driving memorials to dead teenagers?

This is a phenomenon I first noticed around here about 5-6 years ago. Whereas your stereotyped Latino used to only have his Our Lady of Guadalupe icon on the back windshield (or Chivas or Club America), suddenly a bunch of people started appearing with epitaphs on their rear windshields for dead teens. Many of the names Latino, all of them teens. A lot of SUVs, but even simpler sedans like this Mazda I caught below this evening.

In a place like Cali or Texas I'm guessing this is pretty common and old hat. But I am curious how far this phenomenon goes.

Needless to say, I find it bizarre on multiple levels. Not the least of which is why so many cars are decorated with the names and birth/death dates of dead teenagers.
Haven't seen it here in Florida, although I wouldn't too surprised.
 

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