Stupid People Get Run Over. Let's ban iPods!

OK - so yesterday I had a good old rant about Motorists and their incessant tirades against the 'nanny state'.

Well today I came across a proposal that really is an example of nanny statism gone mad. And yes, I realise I already sound like a Daily Mail article. You know the kind: 'I was prosecuted for calling a black man a n*gger, it's political correctness gone MAD I tell you!

In the good ol'US of A, like here in Australia, people aren't trusted to walk across the road based on their own judgement and reasoning - they are fined if they don't act like good little sheep and obey the green and red lights at pedestrian crossings.

Now, some fuckwits have crossed the road in New York with their iPods on and they've been run over. Run over because they obviously weren't looking properly whilst making the journey from one pavement to the other. They didn't die because they were listening to their iPods - they died because they were fucking stupid and didn't look out for cars. So what's the "solution" to this "problem"? I'd say there was no problem, it's natural selection in action. But no, something other than their own stupidity MUST be to blame so New York City Council are proposing that people get fined if they listen to their iPod earphones whilst crossing the road.

MY GOD.

What the fuck is going on here? Surely walkmans and portable music devices have been around for over 20 years - what is it about iPod usage that so enrages the legislators whom seem hellbent to enshrine laws against their use. THIS IS MADNESS.

Luckily, in Australia the proposal has been dismissed by the NSW police chief who the Age report "warned against legislating for "stupidity".

Quite.