Wonderful Gov't Waste

Ah yes. Another BRILLIANT politician with nothing better to do than tell the people and the businesses what to do on some mindless topic:

... Democrat Senator Carl Krueger feels we should talk about the "killer iPod". So he wants to ban the iPods on the streets of New York.

Yes, he is planning to introduce a law which would make the use of the iPod, the BlackBerry or any other handheld illegal, when crossing the streets of New York. No matter how funny or weird that might sound to you, his intentions are pretty serious. He claims that the number of fatal accidents caused by what he calls “the iPod oblivion” is increasing in New York and as an example he brings the case of a young man who died last month. Apparently, the 23 years old man got hit by a bus while inattentively crossing a street, with his mind focused on what the iPod was playing. He did not cite though any scientific study concerning the rise of such fatal, iPod-related accidents.

Who voted these morons to office anyway?

If you're so dumb as to not be careful while crossing the street, let alone while having an earphone in your ear, then get hit by a LARGE freakin' bus that you cannot miss even from 3 blocks away, then.. you probably deserved it.

Then he goes onto say:

"Government has an obligation to protect its citizenry," Kruger said in a telephone interview from Albany, the state capital.

Yes people. Once we have people getting hit by cars or buses while chewing gum
, we need to ban gums for good. Oooh.. what if it's a couple and they were kissing? Then we definitely need to ban kissing. How about talking? We DEFINITELY have to ban talking.

Gov't is there to provide basic needs of the society.. not to tell us how to live our lives or to protect idiots.

If you ask me, it's just another ploy to fine good hardworking people and to get voters' approval.