Welcome to Brooklyn -- now turn off that iPod

Turn your cell phone off in Bronx, Brooklyn's iPods out of sight
Crazy taxi cab in Harlem, iPod Zombies are in fright
Peds love iPods they're so proud, but the volume is too loud!
Car 54 where are you?
(With apologies, based on the theme from the "Car 54 Where Are You?" TV show, 1961-63)

I don't mean to make light of a bad situation (pedestrians getting killed while crossing the streets of New York City), but the reaction of lawmakers can border on the ridiculous.

Stupidity should not be rewarded with laws that inhibit our personal liberties. Lawmakers and the police have better things to do with their time and our tax dollars.

Tony
Tony Bove's iTimes

I know it's a little late, but here's my addition:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/90858871@N00/388492443/

I'm a New Yorker and purchased my first Walkman in 1982 - I've been listening to music, crossing the street and chewing gum (at the same time!) for 25 years - I'm not dead yet....

Just made another one for the fun of it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/svds/382969134/

I live in Brooklyn and haven't heard this one, but it reminds me of the time back when Giuliani started a program to ticket people for jaywalking. It was met with universal scorn, because if you live in NYC, believe me, you've jaywalked. It was all a big joke until the cops (grudgingly, it must be said in their defense) started enforcing it. It was yet another one of those Rudy braincramps that isn't mentioned in the official biographies of this so-called hero of 9/11. It was actually a revenue-raising trick that RG thought would painlessly fill city coffers and keep him from having to raise taxes.

Maybe someone should tell this guy that Steve's boys have already tried a software solution to this problem, which everyone has similarly laughed at.

I hear Seattle is notorious for ticketing jaywalkers, maybe they would do the same if they had an iPod crossing law.

i dispise laws that were brought up to "protect us from ourselves" if people want to listen to their ipods rather than looking both ways and paying attention to inevitable new york traffic let them. If they want to eat trans fats LET THEM. what about natural selection (i.e darwin).


only little babies need to be protected from themselves. we have to have some more personal responsibility in this world, and less legislation.

Ridiculous law - it's up there with seat belts and the like, a victimless crime. While I'd never want someone to hurt themselves, it's their body and their right to make that choice... now, if the arguement can be made that they endanger other people's lives (possibly disrupting traffic or endangering a driver), then I can see the legal grounds.

It's commonplace in our american history through: at one time they tried to ban wiper blades because they 'distracted' drivers, and radios for the same reason. The difference being atleast they were in a car and driving is a benefit not a god given right - a benefit that can endanger other people. Walking yourself into oblivion is your own business, and a social concern for people to talk and care about other people as human beings, not a legal concern that needs fines, courts, or jail time.

I got a jaywalking ticket in high school. sixty five bucks

Eh. Let em' get hit, thins out the stupids.