PETA wants monument honoring chickens killed in Gainesville truck wreck. WTW? [View all]

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We’ve all seen the wooden crosses and other roadside memorials to loved ones killed in automobile accidents. Three years ago, the Georgia Department of Transportation, deeming the makeshift memorials a distraction to drivers and a safety hazard, began offering to place state-approved memorials at the sites of fatal wrecks.
For a $100 fee, GDOT places a white sign with the name of the deceased under the words, “Drive Safely, In Memory.”
Wednesday, a member of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, filed an application with GDOT to have a memorial placed at the Hall County site where a truck hauling live chickens overturned on Jan. 27.
The drivers of the chicken truck and the other vehicle involved were not seriously injured in the predawn crash on U.S. 129 near Gainesville, but “dozens” of the truck’s cargo were apparently not so fortunate, according to the local PETA member who filed the request for a “giant tombstone” to be erected in memory of the chickens.


http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/peta-wants-monument-honoring-chickens-killed-in-ga/ndFdS/