This is, like, a joke, right?

[alexpgp]

Via Engadget:

Brace yourselves good people of New York, mother government is prepared to step in (again) and save you from yourselves. Senator Carl Kruger is reportedly set to introduce legislation that would ban the use of MP3 players, cellphones, and any other electronic device while crossing the street in New York City or other "big cities" in the state. The proposed ban follows two recent pedestrian deaths in Kruger's district where at least one is said to be the result of a person "listening to his iPod." We just gotta wonder: if police can't enforce jaywalking laws in NYC, how could they possibly enforce this?

Indeed.

Between this and the proposed California law forbidding corporal punishment of small children, one wonders if maybe we'll need more cops to take care of these pressing issues?

Cheers...

Comments

[egofood.livejournal.com]

Miss Emily Litella (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Litella) wonders, "What's all this fuss I hear about bringing back the deaf penalty? It's terrible! Deaf people have enough problems as it is!"

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Never mind ... ;p

Top of the Intrusive List....

[daphnis.livejournal.com]

... is the current attempt to require 11-and-12 yr old girls in New York state (IIRC) to receive a series of three injections of Merck-developed HPV anti-viral Gardasil* before being allowed to enter middle school.Jr. High. At a cost of about $360 for the vaccine ~ who pays for that, I wonder? ~ the Government assumption obviously is that ALL young women will 'mess around' and therefore contract human papiloma virus, inevitably leading to cervical cancer.

Shouldn't that sort of choice be left to parents and kids themselves, rather than have some Big Daddy types take over??? As you say, when gummint can't even control jaywalking.......!!