Ban Proposed On Walking While Talking, Listening To iPod – News — Curiously I’m all for this.
A state senator from Brooklyn said on Tuesday he plans to introduce legislation that would ban people from using an MP3 player, cell phone, Blackberry or any other electronic device while crossing the street in either New York City or Buffalo.
NewsChannel 4 reported that Sen. Carl Kruger is proposing the ban in response to two recent pedestrian deaths in his district, including a 23-year-old man who was struck and killed last month while listening to his iPod on Avenue T and East 71st Street In Bergen Beach.
“While people are tuning into their iPods and cell phones, they’re tuning out the world around them,” Kruger said. The proposed law would make talking on cell phones while crossing the street a comparable offense to jaywalking.
Yo, I told you all about this stuff. C’mon.
What an idiot. Let’s legislate what music you can and can’t listen to while going through the crosswalk, too. I’d say rock music and rap is okay, but new age… you might be too relaxed to see a car coming!
#1. You have it right. It’s to bad the legislator couldn’t have just proposed a law that required the courts to take into account that a person who wearing an iPod or the like and is struct by a car is not entitled to damages.
They may as well just outlaw Darwinism outright, Maybe they should simply make it a misdemeanor for a driver to ‘thin the herd’.
Dvorak, Liberterian eh?
Why must we create rules that prevent stupidity being removed from the gene pool!
#25 LOL!!!
Got me with that one.
I’ll be back.
I just noticed the t-shirt for the first time. Plain genious. They should put a street vendor in Manhattan (you know where) selling ‘em
#8 is spot on. I love the cartoon at the top. Just me or is anybody else sick of everything I-Pod?
#23. There is already something called comparative fault. If you blunder out into the street while inattentive, your injuries are not going to be found to be entirely the driver’s fault. If, on the other hand, you are distracted by your iPod so you don’t seen the driver running a red light, it is not entirely your fault, now is it? Or if he is doing 90mph in a 25mph zone so does not stop in time.
legislating by anecdote (like the guy in the article wants to) is ALWAYS a bad idea.
Yeah right! They cannot even manage to enforce the “no cell phone use while driving” law. I see people on their phones while behind the wheel constantly. What they should do is pass legislation that sends these empty minded morons that have nothing better to do than make very small talk on cell phones all day to an island somewhere. Treat them like lepers, because these jerks are useless to society and endanger and annoy other people.
oh my god what is that guy is doin’??? that looks so damn wrong….