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If that’s not enough to worry about, ABC reports a town in New Jersey has starting fining people $85 for texting while walking.  ‘“It’s a big distraction. Pedestrians aren’t watching where they are going and they are not aware,” said Thomas Ripoli, chief of the Fort Lee Police Department.”  But what about writing a jaywalking ticket while walking?  That’s gotta be a distraction for the cops?

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