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  1. 9th July 2004, 03:51 PM #1
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    Traffic Mayhem

    Coming back from the Sunny Coast this arvo there was a HUGE traffic jam. Caused as it turned out by a terrible traffic accident whereby a cattle truck had rolled into the roadside ditch. I think the driver was killed.

    In any event, they were still cleaning up the mess (the accident had happend ay about 4am) thus the traffic slowdown.

    What made it a real problem, though, was the 'gawkers' who were getting a good look as they cruised slowly past the scene, causing further delays for everyone behind.


    You'd think they'd never seen a tip truck full of dead cows before... :wink: [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]
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    That has to be one rotten accident to clean up after [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]
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    Peoples morbid fasination with the dead or damaged is normally how more accidents will happen.
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    there were several other accidents caused by it, 1 serious i believe..
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    Originally posted by bigbugga
    Peoples morbid fasination with the dead or damaged is normally how more accidents will happen.
    Yep. I even wrote a poem about it once, but it may be a bit deep for this forum...

    suffice to say that I was riding my motorbike (some years ago, when I had one) back to Brissie and there had been a terrible accident at blacksoil. Dead people in cars, blood on the road, you name it.

    What really really really freaked me out, disturbed me and made me very p****d off were the ghoulish people who had hoisted their children onto their shoulders so they could get a better look :!:



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    I regularly work in this environment (unfortunately) and it still leaves me dumbfounded the lengths people will go to to get a "good look"
    I have even been verbally abused by bystanders for blocking their "view"
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    Hi Guys
    Must be a day for animals dying on the roads today.The town gardener had to go an collect a jack russell off albany hwy today and return it to its owner,apparently it was over a metre long.Not a nice cleanup job at all.Silly dog must have tried peeing on a roadtrains tyre as it drove by.
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