Date:  Mon, 25 Mar 1996 12:27:32 -0500

From:  "J. Chambers" <chambers[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>

Subject: Re: gapers' block



The Toronto rush-hour reporters use the term gawkers for those drivers

who slow down or stop in hopes of seeing a severed head at an accident

site. So far, there doesn't seem to be a set phrase for the

phenomenon--not gawker's block, gawker's slowdown, etc. Just phrasal

things like "slowdown in the collector lanes due to gawkers", or "a

fender-bender on Finch is causing a backup because of gawkers".



No one here has heard gapers used for this, at least not yet. --Jack