Thanks Justin for pointing out the recent poster who decided to do nothing but link to a bunch of porn sites.
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It’s interesting, because this isn’t an automated script: it’s actually some dude physically interpreting the pictures and pasting the links. A real, live person, rather than a script.
To quote Tom Cruise:
“You’re a jerky jerk!”
Driver-Idiots
Is there any way to delete the driver-idiots who were causing a traffic jam this morning by slowing down to look at a stalled car on the other side of the highway, heading in the other direction?
That would be great.
Legislating stupidity
Unfortunately, you can’t legislate stupidity out of existence.
If you criminalize marriage, only the outlaws will have inlaws…
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Matthew P. Barnson
Yeah!
Is that the same as when people slow down to BELOW the speed limit when a cop has a car pulled over on the OTHER side of the median, and there’s no cross-over in sight?
Conversely, it’s one of the joys of driving when this happens and there’s a opening where you can fly past the gawkers and make up a lot of time. We always referred to that moment of driving bliss as “Fahrvergnügen incarnate”.
Especially when you have a 3000GT.
My $.02 Weed
On general principal, I’m
On general principal, I’m actually in favor of rubber-necking. Yes, it frequently creates long delays from people staring at relatively minor incidents.
However, I remember the one major traffic accident I’ve been in, in which my theatre company’s tour van turned over on the road. We all climbed out of the vehicle and staggered to the very wide grassy median. When the ambulances arrived and started giving us care, they did not move us. Just as I’d managed to get two of the girls in the cast calmed down, we heard a tremendous squeal of brakes as a car coming up on the accident swerved to avoid a piece of debris and almost plowed into those of us clustered on the median.
Rubber-necking, by its very nature, slows traffic down around an accident and provides even more of a heads up to drivers than flares.
Is it sometimes completely unnecessary, as in the case with cops stopping cars on the other side of the road? Yes. But this is definitely an area in which too much caution is better than too little.
A ten minute hold-up ain’t that much inconvenience, in the grand scheme of things.
Which side of the highway
Slowing down when an accident is on your side of the road = GOOD Slowing down when an accident is on the other side of the road = ANNOYING
My $.02 Weed