Death to rubber neckers
12-Apr-2009, 10:12 PM
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Death to rubber neckers
I HATE RUBBER NECKERS!!!
they are totally the scum of the earth...
I'm driving down QEW around Walkers Line and there's bumper-to-bumper traffic...I figure there was an accident but it turned out the accident was on the other side going the opposite direction. People slow down to a creep just to see what's going on. I ****in hate people that do that. I LITERALLY wanna kill them...literally...does everyone feel this way or do I have the worst road rage ever lol
they are totally the scum of the earth...
I'm driving down QEW around Walkers Line and there's bumper-to-bumper traffic...I figure there was an accident but it turned out the accident was on the other side going the opposite direction. People slow down to a creep just to see what's going on. I ****in hate people that do that. I LITERALLY wanna kill them...literally...does everyone feel this way or do I have the worst road rage ever lol
12-Apr-2009, 11:46 PM
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hahaha... speaking of that **** I almost caused an accident tonight because I was looking at an accident. I was driving by and the cop that was there was really hot and I was paying way to much attention to his hottness and I almost rear ended the bmw in front of me
no need to lecture me, my boyfriend was in the passenger seat, I got told off for a good couple blocks until I pulled over and let him drive my car just so he would shut up
but aside from my story... i totally agree, I hate when people slow down to look at an accident it really annoying
no need to lecture me, my boyfriend was in the passenger seat, I got told off for a good couple blocks until I pulled over and let him drive my car just so he would shut up
but aside from my story... i totally agree, I hate when people slow down to look at an accident it really annoying
13-Apr-2009, 12:05 AM
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^^ lol @ you
but yeah i was driving at around 10:20pm west on 401 just off 400, and there was an accident in the express heading west, while im in collector everybody stops. WTF?! once i passed the accident the road was empty...few cars here and there..bah hate those people.
but yeah i was driving at around 10:20pm west on 401 just off 400, and there was an accident in the express heading west, while im in collector everybody stops. WTF?! once i passed the accident the road was empty...few cars here and there..bah hate those people.
13-Apr-2009, 01:28 AM
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hahaha... speaking of that **** I almost caused an accident tonight because I was looking at an accident. I was driving by and the cop that was there was really hot and I was paying way to much attention to his hottness and I almost rear ended the bmw in front of me
no need to lecture me, my boyfriend was in the passenger seat, I got told off for a good couple blocks until I pulled over and let him drive my car just so he would shut up
but aside from my story... i totally agree, I hate when people slow down to look at an accident it really annoying
no need to lecture me, my boyfriend was in the passenger seat, I got told off for a good couple blocks until I pulled over and let him drive my car just so he would shut up
but aside from my story... i totally agree, I hate when people slow down to look at an accident it really annoying
13-Apr-2009, 10:30 AM
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13-Apr-2009, 10:40 AM
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as long as traffic is moving nicely I'll roll by and won't even look. if traffic is slow or stopped... I'll park the mother****er and gawk like it's paid work. i wanna see WTF has caused every idiot in front of me to stop and look and has thus caused me to lose valuable time from my day. and who the jackass is who caused the wreck in the first place... and if he's out of the wreck, I might go over and poke him in the eye.
13-Apr-2009, 10:45 AM
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actually interesting thing about rubbernecking. it's an economic phenomenon called externalities. once you make it to the site of the wreck, it's pretty much smooth sailing ahead for you... stopping to look is a small private cost that you can control (either curious and you'll stop, or not curious and you won't stop - but you determine the length of your stop based on gawking preferences). However, your preference for gawking imposes an external cost on those behind you. These costs accrue on individuals and society, and they include time lost, lost economic productivity, spent gasoline and vehicle idle time, and of course emissions pollution from traffic congestion. So the individual decision to glance over at a wreck actually has social economic costs that possibly run in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per incident.
13-Apr-2009, 10:50 AM
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um ok nice to know lol. I don't do it cuz I ****in hate people that do it. as soon as I pass the wreck I start cutting people off like crazy lol. Some mother ****er was literally stopped for like a second...I caught up to him and drove 80 km/h just to **** him off haha...piece of ****
13-Apr-2009, 09:54 PM
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13-Apr-2009, 09:58 PM
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actually interesting thing about rubbernecking. it's an economic phenomenon called externalities. once you make it to the site of the wreck, it's pretty much smooth sailing ahead for you... stopping to look is a small private cost that you can control (either curious and you'll stop, or not curious and you won't stop - but you determine the length of your stop based on gawking preferences). However, your preference for gawking imposes an external cost on those behind you. These costs accrue on individuals and society, and they include time lost, lost economic productivity, spent gasoline and vehicle idle time, and of course emissions pollution from traffic congestion. So the individual decision to glance over at a wreck actually has social economic costs that possibly run in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per incident.
15-Apr-2009, 12:55 AM
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lol thanks Steve.
what I meant is, you'll never get rid of rubberneckers. pure human nature b/c the individual doing the gawking doesn't pay the full economic cost of their gawking - the ppl behind him bear the costs. it's just like if you gave away free beer, every individual would take more than if he had to pay.
what I meant is, you'll never get rid of rubberneckers. pure human nature b/c the individual doing the gawking doesn't pay the full economic cost of their gawking - the ppl behind him bear the costs. it's just like if you gave away free beer, every individual would take more than if he had to pay.
15-Apr-2009, 11:31 AM
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actually interesting thing about rubbernecking. it's an economic phenomenon called externalities. once you make it to the site of the wreck, it's pretty much smooth sailing ahead for you... stopping to look is a small private cost that you can control (either curious and you'll stop, or not curious and you won't stop - but you determine the length of your stop based on gawking preferences). However, your preference for gawking imposes an external cost on those behind you. These costs accrue on individuals and society, and they include time lost, lost economic productivity, spent gasoline and vehicle idle time, and of course emissions pollution from traffic congestion. So the individual decision to glance over at a wreck actually has social economic costs that possibly run in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per incident.
