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The Minnesota State Patrol is speaking out on the topic thanks to the relatively new hands-free law.

Wednesday will mark a test of a new nation-wide cell phone based alert system. What is this new alert system about? Can you opt out? Is it free? Here are the details.

Payphones are a relic from the years before cell phones, largely only existing as memories in the minds of those old enough to remember them. Occasionally, one might find a weathered old shell from a payphone, but active payphones seem to be pretty rare thing to find "in the wild".

Like most people, I'm usually skeptical on the validity of emails forwarded through chains of people.  A couple people have sent me this video is from an TV station out of Kansas City, Missouri.  So it must be credible, right?  It's scary to think that predators would have the ability to find our kids (or us for that matter) via pictures we take and upload to our facebook pagers, twitter, and flic