Thank you.

That lane of traffic is supposed to be blocked off and already was blocked off.

Maybe. But my kid died a few weeks before Sammy, and when I heard this woman did this to Sammy's memorial I wanted to kill her. But I won't act on that and she shouldn't have acted on her reaction either - she shouldn't have taken it upon her self to take apart a memorial that her neighbors (not just the family,…

Well, no car is going to see the memorial and think they can drive through it. And the darker sign (I'm assuming it's dark green and not black, because that's what park signs generally look like), I suspect what's on there wasn't any sort of majorly key info. And actually I just looked on google street view and that…

No, and no. Those barricades belong there, to block off traffic where it does not belong. The flowers and cards were placed on the barricades.

Vikingmother, I am so sorry for your loss. I'm also sad and outraged on your behalf that other people tried to tell you how to mourn and pressured you to go to the site. That is just wrong. Everyone mourns differently and we should try to respect each others' grieving - especially for you, his mother!!!

The family and other people in the neighborhood had not abandoned it. People might still have been leaving fresh flowers. There were cards there written by kids - kids who came back and left new cards after they heard what this woman had done. It's not like it was left abandoned and was rotting and nobody cared…

Thank you. <3.

Thank you. <3.

Yeah, I don't know what official policies are but everything is on a barricade (which must be property of the parks department or the police), so it seems clear that the defacto reaction of the city agencies has been to leave the memorial be at this point.

Thank you. <3.

I'm sure they will eventually do this but it was their neighbors and Sammy's schoolmates who made the memorial in the first place.

The thing here is that it is the community itself that made the memorial, and people continue to leave flowers, and when people read that this woman did this they brought cards again. This kid's death shook the community greatly, and the family has done very public activism for better traffic safety as they've…

Simcha, I feel your pain. But nobody is saying your grief is not valid. His death shocked the community and lots of people, including children, wanted to pay respects this way. If you grieve differently that's okay too. There are so many ways to grieve. My sister and I look at pictures and videos of my son and I…

The COMMUNITY flocked to the site to show their condolences by leaving flowers and cards written by CHILDREN. His funeral was on overflow, so many people came. There were tons of local news stories about this kid's death, and the family has actively campaigned for changes in traffic laws to protect other kids from…

I am so sorry I misread you twice! This just hits close to home for me both literally and figuratively and looking at it all of a sudden being on Jez, the comments as a whole had me on the defensive I think.

I see what you're saying. Sorry for misreading and I hope I wasn't snippy.

Yes, the block/area where they live and where the memorial is is certainly expensive and beautiful. But as someone who doesn't live that far from them and and who has mutual friends, and who has seen the reaction of the community, I am VERY surprised that anyone would do this.

I don't live that far from them and my son died a few weeks before theirs. When I saw this story I was so horrified. I'm so disgusted with the gall and callousness of this woman and I cannot believe anyone could be such a fucking heartless bitch.

It's not celebrating. It's mourning. Friends, schoolmates, neighbors spontaneously brought flowers and cards etc. This doesn't seem strange to me. The fact that you would call it celebrating seems really off. Believe me, nobody's celebrating in this situation.