Overblown Hollywood police investigations and murder mysteries are the most likely culprits.
How can someone rationally block 2 out of 3 lanes of a major downtown artery in the middle of rush hour for a microscopic fleck of paint? The driver just sat there scowling with his arms crossed, completely oblivious to the massive domino effect his ignorance and selfishness were propagating throughout the city's already brutally congested streets. Was he preserving evidence for the throng of detectives and forensic analysts who would surely flock to the scene? I saw it, I couldn't for the life of me grasp it, and you better believe I was stuck behind it.
Yet another time I was stuck in traffic, I noticed that the black Lincoln travelling alongside my bus in the slow middle lane of the highway stopped a bit short. Unfortunately, the man behind him was in a post-work daze and ended up just tapping his bumper. So, like any rational human being, the gentleman guilty of the minor rear-ending put on his right blinker and began to look for an opening in the equally slow right lane (where I was) to pull off to the shoulder. At that very moment, the man in the Lincoln left everything exactly the way it was, opened his door into the faster left lane and began to step out of his car in the middle of the highway to inspect the "damage". Thankfully, after much honking and waving, the man quickly came to his senses and got back in. I find it amazing that someone would get out in the middle of the highway just to see if their beloved car was scratched, but I guess that's North American car culture for you.
All this in stark contrast to the time I witnessed a pickup truck plough through a brick wall without stopping, but that's a different story altogether...
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