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More Nanny State nonsense.

“Government has an obligation to protect its citizenry,” Kruger said in a telephone interview from Albany, the state capital.

“This electronic gadgetry is reaching the point where it’s becoming not only endemic but it’s creating an atmosphere where we have a major public safety crisis at hand.”

Tech-consuming New Yorkers trudge to work on sidewalks and subways like an army of drones, appearing to talk to themselves on wireless devices or swaying to seemingly silent tunes.

“I’m not trying to intrude on that,” Kruger said. “But what’s happening is when they’re tuning into their iPod or Blackberry or cell phone or video game, they’re walking into speeding buses and moving automobiles. It’s becoming a nationwide problem.”

Now I’m still relatively young so I can’t pinpoint the day that Walkmans were all the rage. But was there a similar push to ban the usage of Walkmans while crossing the street because of a similar endemic?

Look, some people just don’t have much common sense. Taking away their iPod isn’t going to solve that problem.