Good Gravy!

[Zahboo]

AW! I'd tell the on lookers to get out of your yard.

 

[raroo]

It's been about two hours now, the ambulances and helicopter are long gone, but the police are still milling around, and my street is still blocked by road tape at both ends.
I feel very bad for the poor people involved. Nobody starts their day expecting to be carted away in an ambulance helicopter. And the person's family, too. Their entire day is ruined and awful now. How sad.

I hate car accidents. They are so scary. I always worry about one when I'm driving.

 

[boxermom]

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My DH and I were paramedics. We called those "onlookers" the UH OH squad. They used to drive us crazy.

 

[raroo]

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My DH and I were paramedics. We called those "onlookers" the UH OH squad. They used to drive us crazy.

No doubt!!! Half the time they are what blocks things up so badly, too. People just have to stop and stare. I was keeping an eye on what was going on because it was right in front of my window. However, if I had been a few houses down and heard the commotion, there's no way I would have come out and walked down the street to gape openly. People were even pulling over and getting out of their cars to watch. No wonder they block off the road.

 

[ChooksChick]

Evil rubberneckers is what I call them...jerks.

 

[desertgirl]

They are more than annoying-they are dangerous. I am a flight nurse, and those rubberneckers have caused some really scary incidents for us!

 

[raroo]

I don't doubt that... makes a bad situation worse. Adds to an already high-stress scenario. Why do people want to be a part of a morbid mob scene anyway? I'd feel ooky standing and staring while others are scared and hurt. The injured party doesn't want to feel like they're part of a freak show.

 

[desertgirl]

Dunno. Never have understood it. People will go out of their way to get in my way, then make a big scene about how gross/tragic/upsetting it is. And we are just like, "Um, what exactly did you expect after a car accident has occurred?".

Wish they'd just leave it to the trained professionals!

 

[raroo]

Ack!!!

I would just want to

 

[Zahboo]

It's amazing how an accident can slow up traffic, not from emergency response, or the accident itself, but from people wanting to see!