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Every day there are gawkers driving down the lane to see the place where the tragic meal happened.

She said one of her teenage sons gets angry every time he sees a gawker driving slowly through their neighborhood, holding up a phone, taking photos of the wreckage.

Indeed, by objective comparison of scope and scale, movie casting couch mogul Harvey Weinstein might be just a handsy gawker at a nudist colony.

NBC Chicago reported that the hole, which for weeks had attracted amused gawkers to a quiet residential area of the Roscoe Village neighborhood, had been filled in with “what appeared to be plaster or concrete.”

Mercer is also acutely aware of how “parachute people” can overwhelm survivors in the aftermath of a disaster, recalling her own memory of Paradise suddenly feeling like “an aquarium” with gawkers on all sides.