Bells - anyone?

God I want a bell so badly, seems the iPod brigade are out in force at the moment. Anyone noticed that they seem to do it in threes? If someone steps out and then maybe has a look at the oncoming traffic they've just stepped into, seems to me two more about to do the same.

Exactly how I managed to smack into a young lady last summer - this bloke on the right (who had seen and acknowledged me) started to cross, and 3 or 4 people on the other side saw him crossing and *without looking *started to cross too - this resulted in my front wheel going between this poor girls legs, and my bars going into her belly!
Lucky it was me, as only a couple of seconds behind me were cars that they had neglected to notice too. It was a right fucking mess. And she had an iPod on so didn't hear my yell - but it wouldn't have done much good as I was only about 2 metres away when they went into the road.