Killing yourself with a selfie

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Killing yourself with a selfie

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It's the new craze. :crazy: 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:
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...
http://www.samaa.tv/weird/2015/09/selfi ... king-rate/
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Nothing wrong with that, Darwinism has put us where we are today.
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This story needs photos.
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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.
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John Bingham wrote:This story needs photos.
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Anchor Moy wrote:It's the new craze. :crazy: 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;
Who's going to be the first to market blast proof phones to ensure the "selfie" survives the incident. :lol:
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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.
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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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