Sign for nun removed; some found it depressing

[hrmjustin]

WATER MILL, N.Y. (AP) — A street sign memorializing a nun killed in a hit-and-run has been removed after residents called it depressing.

The sign designating Rose Hill Road in the Hamptons as "Sister Jackie's Way" was removed last week, after a monthslong standoff between the local road official who installed it and residents and town board members who wanted it gone, Newsday (http://nwsdy.li/1uCPFbm ) said Monday.

The sign honored Sister Jacqueline Walsh, who died as she walked along the road in July 2012. The 59-year-old nun lived in Syosset and was attending an event at a Sisters of Mercy retreat house in Water Mill, a scenic hamlet near tony Southampton.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/sign-nun-removed-some-found-it-depressing

[tk2kewl]

1. ...can't have their "beautiful minds" wasted with the troubles of the hoi polloi

[uppityperson]

2. huh? well, yes, getting killed with a hit and run is depressing. So?

[hrmjustin]

3. Yeah just a weird story.

[uppityperson]

4. Sorry, not snarking at you but those who think it depressing. We have little memorials

by the sides of roads where people have died and see it as a nice thing to do. To remember people.

Sorry, did not mean to snark at you, but them.

[hrmjustin]

5. No I know my friend.

We have a large amount of streets here in Brooklyn named after those who died on 9/11. Seems rather mean on their psrt to remove it.

[ZombieHorde]

6. We do that in my town too.

Little crosses here and there along the road. Never bothered me.