[UA] ghost bikes memorialize accidents

[Ross Payton]

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/30/ghost-bikes-memorial.html

*A Ghost Bike is a white-painted bike that is placed at a location where a
> cyclist has been hit. According to an old post on bello velo, this photo
> depicts the first Ghost Bike, memorializing an accident on Holly Hills
> Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It was created by Patrick Van Der Tuin who
> saw a cyclist hit by a car. A few days later, he and his friends locked
> several bikes at locations where he knew cars had collided with cyclists.
> Since then, the meme has spread nationwide.*
>


Obvious uses: Sympathetic magic at work here. Pacify the spirits of the
unquiet dead with bikes. Such magic can be subverted by stealing or defacing
the bikes. A sorcerer or cultist can set up more sinister shrines and
disguise them as memorials for the dead. No one will question a roadside
memorial covered with flowers, even if it looks a bit...unusual.

-- 
Ross Payton
Role Playing Public Radio
http://www.slangdesign.com/rppr
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