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| Katena |
on Thu 12 Feb 09, 11:08 AM to Katena's blog.
I've always wondered why people stare at crashes...it really annoys me as that causes more traffic congestion and people maybe hurt and deserve some privacy/dignity!
My only explanations are;
They need to see other peoples pain and aguish to reinforce their feeling of being alive
or
They secretly get aroused at the carnage - 'ala crash'
or
They just have some morbid fascination at the possibility/opportunity of seeing someone hurt
If i'm 1st on site to an accident i will of course stop and help...but thats not what im talking about here...im talkng about the crashes on the motorway etc where your not involved and help is on hand!!
Is it one of those worldy wonders that will never have an answer?
Do you slow down at accidents? If you do...WHY?
Go on...tell me!
k
Edited Thu 12 Feb 09, 11:09 AM by Katena
| 12 Feb 09, 11:12 AM Lee_Van_Spunkenfrick 3 yrs |
because i like to see what happened and maybe one day if i'm lucky i will get to see a severed leg or head if i'm close to the front of the queue before the ambulance arrives. its just natural human curiosity to have a look see ... all for one and fuck the rest | |
| 12 Feb 09, 11:19 AM Lounge_Lizard 5 yrs |
It's all too common... I guess it's a 'natural' reaction,although I'm not a pseudo-psychologist,so I don't pretend to have the answers. It's why soooo many TV programmes are about the emergency services...They just love the fact that we/they are fascinated with human misery/carnage... Speaking as an ex-fireman,it's sometimes best not to look...
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| 12 Feb 09, 11:29 AM Butterscotch UK(RM), 3 yrs |
I'm just plain nosey | |
| 12 Feb 09, 11:30 AM Katena UK(M), 8 yrs |
Oh yehhhhhhhhh! I never thought about there being so many Hospital-type programmes on!! <damnit i loved E.R too!> k I've ran out of sick days...so i'm calling in dead | |
| 12 Feb 09, 11:32 AM Masters_Delight UK(WD), 5 yrs |
With the build up of traffic in front, already rubber necking, it's hard to just drive past quickly and ignore it.x Im so fucking fabulous, i piss glitter. | |
| 12 Feb 09, 11:49 AM flake_1 UK, 3 yrs |
It's a completely natural reaction and a response to a danger situations. Human beings can't help it, because it's programmed into their firmware. We're not the only creature which does it, if you've ever seen what happens when a crow or magpie is shot, they all get up into the air to see the cause, and there's a good survival reason for it. If they can find the cause then they themselves can avoid it, and thus make themselves safer as a result. Corvids have such good eyesight and memory that they can recognise a man acrrying a gun means danger, unfortunately for them they cannot distinguish the gun from a broom handle! And that is why human being gawk at accidents, to see if there's something they can learn something which will protect them from danger in the future. Unfortunately plod not being very bright doesn't look for the reason behind the behaviour, and as a consequence doesn't plan for it, hence the problems. Once they wake up & realise it's natural & inevitable they might get round to doing something to accommodate it.
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| 12 Feb 09, 12:45 PM MissyG UK(MK), 8 yrs  |
I told my mate once how much I hated rubber neckers, apparently, it's a learning thing built into us, we need to look to learn
I didnt get it either, I looked once & learnt it was something I never wanted to look at again after I saw the body of a child on the road, I only stared because I couldnt take it in, I wish I hadn't done now -:|:- My Website -:|:- London Munch -:|:- LondonAlternativeMarket -:|:- | |
| 12 Feb 09, 6:25 PM GazUK1963 UK(B), 6 yrs |
I would look, but only if safe to do so. I think it is nothing more than curiosity. I am very nosey and always want to see what is going on, what is happening. I would feel a great compulsion to look, just to satisfy my curiosity, but would not put others or myself in danger to do it. Gary x. Everyone who lives dies, but not everyone who dies has truly lived. | |
| 12 Feb 09, 7:05 PM IceButch 8 yrs |
Though obviously it doesn't work! Just look at any motorways accident; there are regularly corresponding 'tail-enders' as the drivers of cars waiting to pass the carnage drive into the arse end of the one in front of them, or similar on the opposite carriangeway as drivers drift from lane to lane gawking over. I see accidents most days, frequently more than one per day. I don't want to see some poor sod fighting for their life, drawing their last breath, or worse. A mate of mine was witness to the multiple-death truck crash on the M6 last year, he's currently reliving it all via the court hearing. That was at least partially due to folks not being aware of the traffic situation ahead of them. Slow down, certainly, but watch what the muppets all round you are doing, and keep going, at a steady speed - unless you were a witness, or can offer professional help. IceButch Gone.. |
