Comments on: Curbing "iPod Oblivion" On City Streets?

N.Y. Bill Would Ban The Use Of Electronic Devices In City Crosswalks

[dunlop527]

That is just as dumb as saying that you can't talk and walk or walk and chew gum.

[scottyusa]

Hey Mr. Carl Kruger where did you come from Saturday Night Live? Comedy central? A walking without thinking law. Priceless.

[gunnerone2]

I don't see any point in making criminals out of people who want to listen to music. If walking across a street with an ipod is dangerous how about listening to the radio while driving down the street? We already have too many laws on the books and don't need one this silly.

[dcongrav]

Instead of adding laws, why not eliminate liability for drivers of cars, trucks or buses who hit the "tuned out". Also, eliminate medical coverage for injuries caused by negligence by the "tuned out". In other words, let them keep doing what their doing but if they are injured or killed, let it be them or their estate that has to pay for their negligence and not the bus or car driver nor the city or state government.

[sharmamaxoxo]

Before the iPod revolution, people carried walkmans, boomboxes, and other electronics that also kept them preoccupied. If the iPod is that much of a threat to safety, why were none of the other electronics that people used recognized as a threat? Is it because the iPod spread like wildfire and many people have one? Walkmans were very popular, as were portable cd players, and i feel that Carl Kruger is being irratioinal and trying to remove simple pleasures from people taking a stroll. In a congested city, it would be nice to take a walk through a crowd and not hear all the chaos.

[agnim]

"People...there are WAY TOO MANY RULES/LAWS these days!

Posted by jh6379 at 03:08 PM : Feb 07, 2007"

There are 'way too many rules/laws' because there are way too many undereducated and mis-educated citizens who don't know how to function properly in a society without being coerced like beasts!

If the mindless creatures with the iPods, etc weren't going to be An AVOIDABLE BURDEN ON THE SOCIETIES SERVICES when they get harmed or killed, then no one should care if they insist on getting harmed/killed.

[thefarmer77]

and people want to put a DEM in the Whitehous in 08...

[flolake]

There really are people that cannot chew chewing gum & walk at the same time. Therefore I see this law as most appropriate.

[gmcnally2]

That is ridiculous. I do not feel I can express in words how utterly idiotic that is. Let alone trying to enforce it in a rush hour New York crosswalk.

[sediment4]

suggestion for a new law... lets outlaw politicians who can't find a real problem to fix like health care or reducing taxes to the middle class or how about reducing the number of stupid law already on the books.