New York bill would ban iPods, Cell Phones, Video Games, Sex in Crosswalks

[mandy]

New York bill would ban iPods, Cell Phones, Video Games, Sex in Crosswalks

Correction: My mistake. Sex  in crosswalks was banned in a previous bill.  

Walk, jog or bicycle across a New York street with an iPod plugged in your ears and you could get slapped with a US$100 ticket under a new law proposed by a legislator from Brooklyn.

State Sen. Carl Kruger's bill would also outlaw the use of cell phones, Blackberries, video games or other electronic devices when crossing the street.

He cited the death of a 21-year-old man who was listening to music when he stepped off a curb and was hit by a bus in Brooklyn in September, and the death of a 23-year-old iPod listener last month...

full article: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/RbWW...alks.xhtml

[BellisimaJ.]

New York bill would ban iPods, Cell Phones, Video Games,  in Crosswalks

Yeah, sure, that'll work. 

Correction: My mistake.        sex in crosswalks was banned in a previous bill. 

[accentnepal]

I bet a jay walking ticket is a lot less - therefore if you are listening to tunes, cross in the middle of the street - something I have always thought was safer anyway, because dodge-ing cars from two directions is easier than dodge-ing (light-running) cars from four directions.