Killing yourself with a selfie
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:31 pm
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:
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:
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...
