I just got off of work, and it took me 30 minutes longer to get home than normal, because of a wreck on the other side of the interstate… I only wish that I had access to a blow torch and a pipe wrench. I had to get that off my chest, I feel alot better now.
To be used together in some sort of death ray? MacGuyer to I-95. MacGuyer to I-95.
sigh Rubbernecking is not nearly as common as people say it is; usually traffic congestion attributed to rubbernecking is nothing more than a static wave of compressed traffic - a residual effect initially caused by either a few rubberneckers or a few people wisely and cautiously slowing down when an accident occurs (even if it occurs on the other carriageway, it’t instinctive and sensible to slow down).
Usually it’s like this: traffic density is high; something happens to cause driver A to slow down; driver B (immediately behind) has to decelerate equally or more (if he decelerates less, he risks hitting A); driver C (immediately behind B) has to slow equally or more… by the time we get back to driver H, the backlog is at a standstill, cars join the back of the stationary queue, stop, start, stop, crawl a bit, then leave after the car in front leaves (driver A, even if he is the original and genuine rubbernecker) is long gone by the time driver Q hits the stationary queue, but everyone in front of Q is looking around in a perplexed fashion to try to determine what, if any, reason there is for the holdup; Q sees this and calls it ‘rubbernecking’, but he’s mixing up cause and effect.
Won’t shooting rubber-neckers in the face cause more rubber-necking?
only till they are all dead
Seems like you should shoot rubberneckers in the neck. Could just be me, though.
Ooo, “carriageway!” You Englanders are so cute. 
Nah, the bullets’d just bounce off.
That was my first thought, too. More rubber-neckers, and the small detail of the multiple emergency vehicles, police helicoptors, and SWAT team vans who are coming to chase ol’** gus28** down. Then he’d be the reason traffic was held up, and therefore be subject to the “face-shot” punishment put forth by his own proposal. Brilliant!
This is the best idea I’ve heard all day. 
okay, I wasn’t going to admit to this, but it wasn’t until preview that I got your joke, Neidhart. I was reading it, and thinking it was re: the OP, and wondering why the bullets would bounce off rubbernecker’s faces. All I could figure was because you meant they were “hardheaded”, which is kinda lame. But you meant their necks, which are rubber, ergo bouncy. Which is actually pretty fucking funny, and I can’t believe it took that long for my synapses to fire. :o It’s been a long week.
bella
My thoughts start to noticeably slow down too around 10 p.m. 
(And what if you shot 'em in the neck with rubber bullets? They’d just keep ricocheting around till the end of time.)
Just piping up in support of Mangetout’s post…
Here is a really good discussion on the concept of [url="http://amasci.com/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html"traffic waves.
Announcement: Gus28 is not me!!! Honest…