When will it end?
When will people realize that you can't legislate everything? New York certainly has not gotten the message:
I suppose that this idea will make it to Annapolis any day now...
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.Clearly, police in New York and Buffalo have nothing better to do in this Senator's mind.
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.
I suppose that this idea will make it to Annapolis any day now...
posted by Brian Griffiths at 8:09 PM
1 Comments:
It will end when the public puts people into office that understand the proper function of government. Until the public wakes up and realizes that we are just about living in a police state that runs every aspect of our lives it will continue. Government can’t protect us from ourselves and it is not its role to do so. Governments are instituted among men to secure our rights. What rights, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Does any of this sound familiar to any politician out there? Governments are not instituted to protect us from everything that can possibly harm us.
I wonder how many accidents are caused by people not getting enough sleep before they get behind the wheel. Should government regulate our sleep habits?
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