iPod May Shuffle You From Rolling Stone to Roadkill, Australian Ad Says

A new ad in Australia highlights the dangers of crossing the road with your MP3 player rumbling your inner ear canal at full volume. And of course, it shows the iPod in a new twist of Apple’s original silhouettes campaign, now using the headphones cable as a way to draw the place in which a body lies dead. Ah, nothing like a great morbid image to start up a pre-MacWorld wednesday.

The ad was created by advertising agency DDB in Sydney, all after the State Traffic Commander, Chief Superintendent John Hartley said:

“The NSW police would look at the New York senator’s proposal and the impact it may have in twelve months’ time,” as reported in an article entitled “Alert Sounded on iPod Use” by Asher Moses on February 7, 2007 in The Sydney Morning Herald. Superintendent Hartley went on in that same article to say; “You can’t legislate stupidity – if people are stupid enough to do something that’s so distracting they can’t see cars coming, that’s a problem they need to deal with.”

Sounds reasonable enough, but apparently the problem started to get really serious (yes, a lot of stupid people in the world, it seems) and the authorities decided to warn all those crazy crazy personal media player junkies. To probably be ignored shortly thereafter. [iPhone Savior]