As if we don't

have enough things to ban and regulate and control...

Now exercise! Complete with less fun!

They may have wanted to note that the number of pedestrian death increased by about 6 total. In the whole country. Or that they decreased by thousands over the last several years... all while millions have taken to the sidewalks with ipod, cellular phones texting away, and so on. So never mind that the statistics don't back up that there's some scourge of walking deaths abound, we must have law!

Oh and never mind that over half of all pedestrian deaths involve alcohol or narcotics. And not "distractions".