NerblyBear wrote:It's a natural response to the boring, mechanized, sedate lives most of us lead in the modern world.

In general it might be a natural response, or intially, yeah. But it's not like we can't choose whether to give into it.

I'm gonna vote CRAP here, by the way, 'case anyone cares.

not crap with a waffle factory...

that damned fly wrote:tying up traffic: always crap. always. stop looking. you're really making life suck for the rest of us.

How do you reach the pedals?


I'm kidding. Don't yell at me.

I do this a lot of times without really even thinking about it. But the only reason I will vote Crap for this particular poll is because in Los Angeles if there is a fender bender on the 5 (or god forbid the 405) People slow down to like 15 mph. to check it out.

I've been close to two hours late to my jam spot because of some shit like that.


If this happens during rush hour in L.A. though, you might as well install a television, fridge and bed into your car.

Not crap for safety,
Even if you aren't nosy, you're supposed to slow down for rescue workers, delirious victims and the like. If I were a paramedic, I would rather have gawkers driving 10-15mph than cars whipping past at 50.

If you stare at an accident scene you're an arsehole but if you don't even bother to turn your head when someone might be dying a few metres from you you're also an arsehole.

Basically, you're an arsehole.

While on our way home from a 4th of July weekend me and a girlfriend passed a twisted, broken, ragdoll'd corpse of a driver on the highway with a beach towel hastily placed to cover his ruptured, splattered everywhere head. We were stunned speechless. A state trooper stood waving people by with an expression that seemed to say, Move along, nothing to see. (Except this dead fucking body in the road!) We were speechless for like 20 minutes, unable to speak.

It's a natural reaction to look. And if others are slowing down traffic, what are you going to do? Greg makes a good point about slowing for rescue workers on the scene. NOT CRAP. It is CRAP to get pleasure from others misfortune, though.

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OF ACCIDENTS

If it happens in my field of vision it is my business.
But while driving is total crap.

I do think it is fun to ask the cops "You guys need my help?" in a overly confident tone of voice as I walk by.

while driving: total crap

I was driving down Halstead on the way back from some awful show. This part of town is where all the white people go to get hammered and hook up with loud puffy whoo! girls.
So I'm on my way through and I see this white dude laying in a pool of blood and glass. I stopped just because I just happened to have a record label rep. in the passenger seat who is deathly afraid of blood. So I get out and this guy's BFF is crying and shouting something, but he's too drunk to be any use, and theres a few girls with them who are also screaming 'OH my GOD. OH My GOD'. So they're trying to get someone to call an ambulance ('CAll a fucking ambulance OH MY GOD').
So from what I gather this skinny white d-bag said the wrong thing to a pair of mexicans, who went and smashed his head with a bottle, after which he fell straight back on his smashed head, and smashed it a little more. He was lucky he was still breathing, I guess, although I would not want to wake up the next day with that kind of headache. I picked up his head off the ground to see what the damage was, and clear his breathing holes of vomit or burrito or whatever it was. His skull was crushed in from what I could feel, it was like a big raw egg that had been dropped from a small height.
Long story short, the record label guy was in my car barfing out the door. It was hilarious. I told him to grab me a jug of water out of the back seat so I could get some of the blood off, but he had fainted.