Date:  Mon, 25 Mar 1996 12:27:14 -0600

From:  Joan Houston Hall <jdhall[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU>

Subject: Re: gapers' block



In message Fri, 22 Mar 1996 13:52:03 -0500,

 Allan Metcalf <AAllan[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM> writes:



> In Chicago, a traffic slowdown caused by drivers slowing to look at an

> accident in the opposite lane, or some other sight (currently a portrait

> of Dennis Rodman of the Chicago Bulls, changing hair color as Rodman

> does) - is called a "gapers' block."

>

> Is that term used elsewhere? If not, what?

>

> Thanks - Allan Metcalf

>

In the Philadelphia area, newscasters say "There's a gaper delay at 6th and

Market."

Joan Hall