iPod ‘Listen, Don’t listen’ law
p2pnet.net News:- If New York state senator Carl Kruger gets his way, if you’re listening to a portable music player when you’re crossing the street, you could be fined $100.
He proposed the law after a 21-year-old man who was listening to music when he stepped off a curb and was hit by a bus in Brooklyn in September, and the death of a 23-year-old iPod listener last month, says Associated Press.
“If you’re so involved in your electronic device that you can’t see or hear a car coming, this is indicative of a larger problem that requires some sort of enforcement beyond the application of common sense,” the story has Kruger declaring
“With our schools failing, health costs out of control and crushing property taxes, the Legislature would rather play mother by legislating how we cross the street,” AP quotes civil-liberties lawyer E. Christopher Murray as saying.
“What’s next? Do you get fined if you don’t look both ways?”
Also See:
Associated Press – Move’s afoot in N.Y. to force iPod pedestrians to unplug, February 8, 2007
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February 8th, 2007 at 8:30 am
i mean if your dumb enough to cross a street without LOOKING for a gigantic friggin bus coming, you probably deserved it. If they didn’t killed this way, they’d probably just kill someone else not paying attention to what they are doing.
more stupid laws for the stupid people and everyone has to suffer.
Pretty soon it will be against the law to be alive cause you might die!
February 8th, 2007 at 10:48 am
what if a guy gets hit walking across the street with his headphones off, then gets hit by a car cause the guy was on a cell phone
February 8th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Ya right! Blamming the victim again!
February 8th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
natural selection at work.