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.
How in the world are you going to enforce this law for crying out loud? Writing stupid laws increases disrespect for all laws.
I’m willing to bet that this kind of behavior happens literally MILLIONS of times in New York City. This legislator is going to limit Milliions of people due to one or two accidents that very well would have happened if the dummies weren’t listening to music. The question is has accidents gone up with the adoption of Ipods, Cell phones and BlackCrackberries?