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From: Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Tragedy averted
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:22:09 -0400
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On 3/28/2025 10:09 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2025-03-28 2:36 a.m., Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>>
>> How many pedestrians, do you suppose, have been killed by rocking out to
>> music/podcasts with their new-ears engaged, when a car hit them? I'm not
>> talking about using iPods as hearing aides, just dangerous for
>> distorting an extremely important sense, outdoors. That goes for all
>> audio devices that do other than enhance your hearing. Indoors is
>> optimal.
> 
> About once a year we lose a local teen who is illegally walking along 
> the railway and listening to loud music through ear buds. I see a lot of 
> cyclists using them too.  You really need to be able to hear properly 
> when riding or walking, and not just by roads.
> 
It's not just those earbuds.  There are people who drive around with the 
music in their car/truck blasting so loud it can be heard half a block 
away even when their windows are closed.  They are very likely not to 
hear the sirens of emergency vehicles.  Or trains, for that matter, if 
it's an unguarded train crossing in a fairly rural area.

Jill