NEWSTALK 860 » pedestrians http://ksfa860.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:46:36 +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://ksfa860.com/new-jersey-town-raises-a-ruckus-for-ticketing-pedestrians-who-text-or-talk-on-the-phone-video/ http://ksfa860.com/new-jersey-town-raises-a-ruckus-for-ticketing-pedestrians-who-text-or-talk-on-the-phone-video/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 19:45:56 +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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]]> http://ksfa860.com/new-jersey-town-raises-a-ruckus-for-ticketing-pedestrians-who-text-or-talk-on-the-phone-video/feed/ 0 Kenski1970, Flickr Deaths from Pedestrians Wearing Headphones Are Skyrocketing http://ksfa860.com/deaths-pedestrians-headphones/ http://ksfa860.com/deaths-pedestrians-headphones/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:38:39 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=70706 Anybody who’s walked and worn headphones at the same time knows that listening to tunes reduces your awarness of what is going on around you.

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