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I must be the oddball (nothing new)..when I come to an accident....
scene, I don't gawk, I just want to get through if at all possible and not gawk, esp. if there are injured still in their vehicles....
posted by
Rumor
on July 14, 2006 at 5:52 AM
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DeIntinis, I don't know what hard-wiring of human nature causes otherwise
rational human beings to turn into lemmings when approaching an accident scene, maybe it's the "there but for the grace of God" or "Do I know these people (highly unlikely in a major metropolitan area) but no there seems to be no avoiding the hypnotic pull of witnessing an accident scene.
posted by
Blanche.
on July 14, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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DeIntinis,
We get so many horrific images through television, [and have, for a long time, from print] that when we get a chance to "see it live" or be on scene we don't just look, we gawk.
posted by
franciscan
on July 13, 2006 at 1:42 PM
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Small town
I guess it would be a whole different in a small town. If stuff like that rarely happens, I bet when something does happen, the whole town knows about it in a few minutes and make their way to the scene. I think the gawking phenomena is most prevalent in cities where there is a fair deal of commuting.
posted by
DeIntinis
on July 11, 2006 at 5:58 PM
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I live in a very small town where nothing ever happens...lol And when it does I'm usually never there to see it. I'm glad tho.
posted by
microba
on July 11, 2006 at 7:34 AM
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