On 21/02/2006, at 21:18 , James / Hans Kunz wrote:
are you ipod user?, then have a read......James
Police warning for iPod users
http://tinyurl.com/af5p8
from the article...
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Police have warned that cyclists should never listen to an iPod while
riding unless they have a death wish.
"If you're a cyclist and you want to stay alive, I wouldn't wear an
iPod under any circumstances," Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner
(Traffic) Noel Ashby told theage.com.au.
...
The alert comes after a 32 year-old Australian woman was knocked off
her bicycle and killed in London. Friends said she may have been
killed as she couldn't hear traffic noise over her iPod.
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I always thought this was common sense. But in few days since I read
about this, I've seen literally dozens of cyclists and car and truck
drivers around Perth wearing headphones. I even saw a Transperth bus
driver wearing a pair of characteristically white headphones. Can't
question his taste, but I was dumbfounded!
-josh
