http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-12-26/classified/ct-met-getting-around-1226-20111226_1_memorial-markers-roadside-memorial-idot
It was a gruesome accident May 22: A truck driver lost control and his rig carrying 36 cows partially tipped over on an overpass along Interstate Highway 80 near Hazel Crest, sending some of the animals plunging about 25 feet onto Interstate Highway 294.
The death toll totaled 16 head of cattle, including one badly injured animal that police shot to end its suffering.
An animal-rights group now wants the Illinois Department of Transportation to erect an official roadside memorial sign. It would serve as a tribute to the victims, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which also seeks installation of a second memorial to six cows killed in traffic after they were thrown from a truck that overturned on Oct. 14 near Cambridge, Ill.
"Cows are intelligent, sensitive animals that feel pain the same way we do," said Tracy Patton, a campaigner for PETA.
The markers would be the first official highway memorials in the U.S. dedicated to animals killed in traffic accidents. Two previous applications submitted in Virginia, to honor almost 200 pigs killed in traffic wrecks, were turned down.
"These proposed signs would also remind tractor-trailer drivers of their responsibility to the thousands of animals they haul to their deaths every day," said Patton, 26, who lives in Arlington Heights. "It's a big enough tragedy that these animals end up in slaughterhouses, where they are kicked, shocked with electric prods and finally dragged off the trucks to their deaths. Sparing them from being tossed from a speeding truck and deprived of care afterward, sometimes for several hours, seems the least that we can do."
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This is the craziest thing I have ever heard. Are these people for real?? Maybe their sign should read...
IN MEMORY OF ABOUT 500 RIBEYE STEAKS
THAT WERE TO BADLY BRUISED TO BE CLEANED,
CUT AND EATEN'. THEY WILL BE FOREVER
REMEMBERED!!!!!
You cant fix Stupid.
Quote from: riverboss on December 28, 2011, 05:59:32 PM
You cant fix Stupid.
I think that pretty well sums up peta.
Jerry
What causes impurity in the human gene pool like that? :doh2:
California Late 60s early 70s :alscalls:
Quote from: FinsnFur on December 28, 2011, 07:05:26 PM
What causes impurity in the human gene pool like that? :doh2:
:innocentwhistle: Inbreeders...
Idiots - plain and simple idiots :noway:
Then there is the other side where less then two percent of the earths population demand Crosses have to be removed where people have been killed on the highways. :shrug: :confused: