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Banning iPods in New York?

I mean really…

Walking And Talking Idiot

By Mark Bulliet

February 8, 2007

The New York Post

February 8, 2007 — A state senator wants to fine people $100 for listening to an iPod or talking on a cellphone while crossing the street – but New Yorkers are shrugging off the ham-handed idea.

Sen. Carl Kruger (D-Brooklyn) said the ban comes in response to two recent pedestrian deaths, including a man struck and killed last month while listening to his iPod in Bergen Beach.

Derrick Torres, a Navy vet crossing West 31st Street while talking on his cellphone yesterday, called the ban unnecessary.

“If I were a government official who wanted to curtail cellphones in public, I'd be looking at libraries, churches, buses, trains and schools,” he said.

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