In The Princess Bride, the Man in Black, aka Dread Pirate Roberts, aka Wesley, pretended to fall for this simple ruse while killing Vezzini with "iocane" powder. (So much for never going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.) Vezzini, mid mad cackle, drops dead, and the Man in Black completes his capture of the Princess.
If only the drivers of New Jersey's rush hour arteries were as savvy as Wesley, aka Dread Pirate Roberts, aka The man in Black. But, alas, at least some of them are not. If my observations are correct, many fairly ordinary sights are quite amazing to them, causing rather large traffic tie-ups near piles of dirt, construction vehicles, and dead animals.
...or perhaps there is something less troubling going on. What if one person, who has actually never seen a large pile of black dirt before, asks the driver to slow down so he/she can take a look, and then other drivers, wondering what could possibly be so interesting about a pile of dirt, slow down to see what's happening. Since it's just an ordinary pile of dirt, many drivers might linger wondering why on earth anyone else would slow down to look at a pile of dirt.
Probably that's it.
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