107.9 The River » Cellphones http://theriver1079.com Casper's Real Rock Variety Wed, 22 May 2013 12:54:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 New Jersey Town Raises a Ruckus for Ticketing Pedestrians Who Text or Talk on the Phone [VIDEO] http://theriver1079.com/new-jersey-town-raises-a-ruckus-for-ticketing-pedestrians-who-text-or-talk-on-the-phone-video/ http://theriver1079.com/new-jersey-town-raises-a-ruckus-for-ticketing-pedestrians-who-text-or-talk-on-the-phone-video/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 22:30:56 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=98905 You’ve probably seen the countless YouTube videos of people so transfixed by their mobile phones that they walk into inanimate objects or fall into fountains.

And while it’s easy to laugh at such incidents, the truth is that distracted pedestrians can cause serious harm to themselves or other people — and now one New Jersey town is taking a stand.

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