Killing yourself with a selfie
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Killing yourself with a selfie
It's the new craze. Posing with a gun to your head is so dumb that it seems a bit obvious, but why would you pull out the pin of a hand-grenade and think that would make a great photo for your friends and family ?
Seems the Darwin Awards need to start up a subsection for selfies:
Seems the Darwin Awards need to start up a subsection for selfies:
http://www.samaa.tv/weird/2015/09/selfi ... king-rate/SYDNEY: The rise of selfie photography in some of the world’s most beautiful, and dangerous, places is sparking a range of interventions aimed at combating risk-taking that has resulted in a string of gruesome deaths worldwide...
But the selfie has also inspired a spate of risk taking and offensive public behaviour, pushing the boundaries of safety and decorum, whether by dangling from a skyscraper or posing with live explosives.
Several governments and regulatory bodies have now begun treating the selfie as a serious threat to public safety, leading them to launch public education campaigns reminiscent of those against smoking and binge drinking.
Dozens of grisly selfie-related deaths and injuries in early 2015 led Russia’s Interior Ministry to launch a campaign warning avid mobile phone snappers about the danger of, among other things, posing for a selfie with a lion.
In June, two men in the Ural Mountains died after posing pulling the pin from a hand grenade; in May a woman survived shooting herself in the head in her Moscow office; a month later a 21-year-old university graduate plunged 40 feet (12 metres) to her death while posing hanging from a Moscow bridge.
“A cool selfie could cost you your life,” reads a poster from the campaign, which includes safety videos and information booklets...
In Texas on Wednesday, a 19-year-old father of two died after shooting himself in the neck during a selfie. In Yellowstone National Park exasperated officials issued warnings after five separate selfie takers were gored this summer while standing too near bison...
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Nothing wrong with that, Darwinism has put us where we are today.
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Keep up the good work. Thanks to all who left this world leaving me more air to breathe.
Moe selfies please.
Moe selfies please.
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John Bingham wrote:This story needs photos.
Re: Killing yourself with a selfie
Who's going to be the first to market blast proof phones to ensure the "selfie" survives the incident.Anchor Moy wrote:It's the new craze. Posing with a gun to your head is so dumb that it seems a bit obvious, but why would you pull out the pin of a hand-grenade and think that would make a great photo for your friends and family ?
Seems the Darwin Awards need to start up a subsection for selfies:
In June, two men in the Ural Mountains died after posing pulling the pin from a hand grenade;
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Re: Killing yourself with a selfie
I vote KS does CEO's first 'ride a bicycle down 271 the wrong way at night during KNY' selfie.
We'll claim the needle and spoon were lifted by the gawkers.
We'll claim the needle and spoon were lifted by the gawkers.
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"Life is too important to take seriously."
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
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Mean Dtuk Mean Trei, Mean Loy Mean Srey
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Mean Dtuk Mean Trei, Mean Loy Mean Srey
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