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NEW YORK -- 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.
Ban Proposed On Cell Phones & MP3 Players When Crossing the Street [wnbc.com]
Absolutely correct, legislation will never replace common sense.
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Pedestrians aren't the problem. It's the ones with cell phones behind the wheel, comandeering a 3500 lb.+ battering ram.
We already have too much legislation. I say we start random executions. What the heck, that's got as much chance as this does.