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By Steve Ragan Feb 8, 2007, 17:14 GMT
NY State Sen. Carl Kruger proposes ban on handheld devices
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Let's just make stupidity a crime and have Carl Kruger be the first one arrested!
jail drivers. throw away key.
Look's like
Look's like Kruger's re-election hopes just went bye-bye.
This is why I do not vote!. What good is voting when all you get is crap like this. So what.. someone got hit -- dame, this is a new concept. OK, I feel bad for the ones killed or hurt but you know what mommy and daddy or anyone older taught you how to cross the road. Use Common Sense People. Ban I-pod ? ban Cell phones ? your a joke. fix some real problems (like global warming) why dont you stop wasting my time and money on crap.
Bill - You can't complain if you don't vote. Did it occur to you that if more people voted then maybe not so many idiots would get elected? Sorry but you are a fool if you think that you make a statement by not voting. Actually you do make a statement, you're stating that you don't care enough to get off your high-horse and do something about anything.
If you get creamed listening to your ipod, your genes were not meant to be passed on. I cannot believe how many laws we have to protect the stupid.
Why isn't common sense more common?!?
To be sure, someone thought about the potential for dangerous interaction between moving vehicles and preoccupied pedestrian PD (personal device) users before hundreds of millions of the devices were dumped into the marketplace, no?!
Banning the use of handheld devices in NYC or any other city would be tantamount to Socialism, in my opinion. This proposed ban will not curb the use of these devices, it will just take us one step closer to corporal control and create a great deal more work for lawmakers and city officials who are already straining to deal with bigger issues like violent crime, child abuse, drug proliferation, etc. The burden of responsibility for PD use should fall on the user, not the lawmaker, the taxpayer, nor the City of New York. And the burden of responsibility for reducing vehicular impact with errant pedestrians and other non motorized users of city streets should fall on the vehicle driver, likewise. There is no better control than self control, and no better law than personal liability.
I'm all for it and while your at it why not ban those distracting wristwatches, high heeled shoes, smoking, transfats, the cars the pretty girls who walk the sidewalks in your cities too? Government must do it's best to keep us safe from cradle to grave. If it doesn't happen I'm going to sue! _________Kim Jong Il
We do not need to get rid of the guns lady( comment in posted). This is about laws against carrying a ipod or like device while on city streets.
This is a stupid idea. I was brought up right, to be aware of my surroundings. If I should choose to wear my ipod, and have it a full blast, and come up on a street to cross, the right thing to do is remove the ear pods, and turn down the volume a little. Look both ways then cross safely. It is that simple.
But to create a law about this is very stupid I think.
I think there should be a law that forbids a father, or loved one, from abandonding a child in the cold weather, because he or she (child) does not want to go to sleep, then child wonders around in sub-freezing temps, and then dies.
The law should give very harsh punishment to somebody that does something stupid like that. We need more laws passed for childern, and their safety then these stupid things like this, would not or should not happen, more power to child protection agencenies.
Then the lady in one last comment wants to abolish something like guns. It is not the gun that kills people it is the stupid idiot that pulls the trigger. If their is no gun, he or she could revert to a chainsaw, drill, baseball bat, car, weedeater, knife, you name it to kill someone, do you want to ban all those.
If a bullet is laying on a counter, and an empty gun is on the counter, to have it kills somebody, then somebody needs to put bullet in gun, then pull trigger, notice it needed somebody to put it in there, the bullet does not just jump into the chamber to fire.
There is no personal responsibility anymore.
When someone gets fat its the trans-fat's fault, not theirs for eating it.
When somone gets lung cancer its the cigarette manufacturer's fault, not theirs for smoking.
And when someone gets creamed by a bus while listening to an iPod its the iPod's fault, not theirs for not looking.
Welcome to the new America where we'll protect you from yourself because you're too damn stupid to do it on your own.
Protect your right to cross the street with an iPod.
Sign the I Walk, I Cross, iPod Petition to oppose the proposed NY legislation. When will we realize that education is far more effective than legislation to create public awareness over crosswalk safety? Join in the public dialog to increase and promote the look left right left rules and sign the online petition at www.myspace.com/batterygeeks
We need to do away with our current system of law. Instead of making laws that ban things we should ban everything and then make laws that let you do things. That will make it easy, you can't do anything unless Uncle Sam says it's ok. That will surely save the ignorant masses from themselves because every politician knows that they wouldn't be in office if the masses weren't a bunch of morons.
I understand people should be able to listen to their music but if they endanger others then it ought to be regulated.
Mr. Kruger is just covering the bases. It's better then having some yahoo filing a law suite against the city because their love one was hit by a passing car while they were listening to their ipod or talking on their cell phone and there wasn't a law prohibiting hand held gadgets being used while crossing a street.
This proposal is absolutely absurd. Cell phones in cars are one thing. Trans-fats I can understand because of the easy replacements that can be made. MP3 players while walking? RIDICULOUS. How will a proposal like this eve get passed? And, just for sake of argument, if it is passed, how will it ever be enforced? There are 10 million people in NYC, 14 including tourists. There is no way this law could even be considered effective. I have to agree with the MASSES, this is an idiotic idea and a waste of time for both the Hill as well as the people. The Senator needs to use his head and prioritize his issues.
Its about not being distracted when you're driving. Radios dont require your attention. The option is open with a radio, no obligation or interpersonal involvement. I've personally seen people crying,yelling, & fighting on the phone with other people while driving. Driving is not a game, cars are not toys, and the road isnt anyones personal race track. Focus and attention shouldnt be compromised for a phone call. Turn it off and check the messages when you stop driving. Im sure the person calling you while youre deiving dosent mind waiting until you are out of the car and are not being distracted and endangered.
As for the dopes that cant cross the road safely, I agree its natures way of cleaning the gene pool.
The government is smarter than you!
You are all stupid!
You should not be allowed to do ANYTHING without getting permission first!
It is not about lawsuits it is about CONTROL!
I want to ban EVERYTHING while you are doing ANYTHING!
Soon you will need a licence to buy SALT!
I will tell you it is for your own good but it will be more control for ME!
Glad they are targeting the pedestrians on this one - what a terror they represent. Let's not do anything about the people driving while on their cell phone, it's the pedestrian's job to be alert so they can dive out of the way. It would horrible if some politician was blamed for killing a pedestrian while talking on his cell phone because the pedestrian was using his iPOD and didn't hear teh car coming.
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