I don't know what's funnier, this thread or the video.
Vampires? That's an extraordinarily bad analogy. Doesn't even make sense. Vampires suck the blood of living mammals in order to survive. I don't see the connection. Even if someone here were to actually have joy, glee, experience giddiness over an accident, even if, or especially if, someone were injured or killed, drawing an analogy with that to vampires is still an exceedingly bad analogy. Vampires benefit from actually injuring others. They don't benefit from someone who is already injured. Bad analogy, dood, really bad. It's so bad that it smells of a troll, someone who makes incendiary statements in order to sit back and watch the reaction from others. Pretty much like a vampire insofar as you have defined it, I suppose. Wow, irony.
Most drivers subscribe to gallows humor. Don't like it, tough. It's an emotional defense mechanism to keep one from going insane. If we got all sappy and depressed each time we see an accident or have to deal with a stressful situation we wouldn't be able to do our jobs. We all know that the same thing could happen to us. But instead of dwelling on it and driving ourselves crazy, we'll point at it and laugh, precisely because we know we might be next.
The crew of the USN aircraft carrier Enterprise has given it a couple of nicknames, for the same reasons:
Three-Quarter Mile Island
Mobile Chernobyl
The difference between the Americans and the British:
The Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
The British think a hundred miles is a long drive.
