People Dying Seeking To Take The Perfect Selfie

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I was just listening to a show on TV and they mentioned all the people who die trying to take the perfect selfie that will gain them a lot of hits online. Call me old fashioned, but I've never taken a selfie. Full story about it here. Do you know anyone who died taking a selfie?

The quest for extreme selfies killed 259 people between 2011 and 2017, a 2018 global study has revealed.

Researchers at the US National Library of Medicine recommend that 'no selfie zones' should be introduced at dangerous spots to reduce deaths.

These would include the tops of mountains, tall buildings and lakes, where many of the deaths occurred.
Drowning, transport accidents and falling were found to be the most common cause of death.

But death by animals, electrocution, fire and firearms also appeared frequently in reports from around the world.
In July this year, 19-year-old Gavin Zimmerman fell to his death while taking selfies on a cliff in New South Wales, Australia.

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I know , we read about it often. It's craziness. Like you SB I've never taken a selfie.. why would I want to?...but that said I can understand if someone is alone on holiday and wants to get the Tower of London in the background with them in the picture then fine, but these horrifically dangerous poses have become too common , and yet people don't seem to learn from the deaths of other people..
 
SeaBreeze said:
I was just listening to a show on TV and they mentioned all the people who die trying to take the perfect selfie that will gain them a lot of hits online. Call me old fashioned, but I've never taken a selfie. Full story about it here. Do you know anyone who died taking a selfie?
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What is that , that she is standing on.....wow! it looks like a log way down. And she's sitting on someones shoulders t'boot.

Hard to understand some folks......
 
rgp said:
What is that , that she is standing on.....wow! it looks like a log way down. And she's sitting on someones shoulders t'boot.

Hard to understand some folks......
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If you click on the link "here" you'll see, this is what they said.

This selfie-taker risked her life on someone's shoulders at the top of a 180 metre high disused chimney in Romania
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Back in the 70s, my brother and brother-in-law did a video, taking turns skootching on their hind ends out to the edge of a long narrow ledge, to dangle their legs over the Grand Canyon.
Gave me the creeps to watch the movie the first time, and any time after.
‘Our brother-in-law is a daredevil moron, driven by his short man syndrome’, I explained
‘What’s your excuse?’ I asked

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Live long enough, risky situations occur all by themselves
Flirting with risk will getcha in the papers…..at least the obituary
 
Gary O' said:
Back in the 70s, my brother and brother-in-law did a video, taking turns skootching on their hind ends out to the edge of a long narrow ledge, to dangle their legs over the Grand Canyon.
Gave me the creeps to watch the movie the first time, and any time after.
‘Our brother-in-law is a daredevil moron, driven by his short man syndrome’, I explained
‘What’s your excuse?’ I asked

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Live long enough, risky situations occur all by themselves
Flirting with risk will getcha in the papers…..at least the obituary
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:lofl:mad:Gary! Hahaha. Scooped for all the stupid people in my life. :laugh:
 
People get murdered that way, too. "Oh, my wife was taking a selfie too near the edge. lost her balance and fell over."

Right.
 
Darwin Award competitors absolutely. When I think 'selfie' I can't help but think of video taped stupid stuff people did before the cellphone camera. Anything from the home backyard wrestlers injuring themselves to the Jack Ass movie character.

Decades ago you could ask a stranger to take a picture of yourself & others without incident today you might get shot. The do it yourself craze has gone into a relm of stupidity beyond belief. And for what-I was there? I was crazy & stupid and got away with it?
 
Gary O' said:
Back in the 70s, my brother and brother-in-law did a video, taking turns skootching on their hind ends out to the edge of a long narrow ledge, to dangle their legs over the Grand Canyon.
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Reminds me of something I saw on a cooking show. You have to skip to near the end to see where they eat lunch.

 
The scary part is not knowing what kind of phobia one has until you find out the hard way--while you're in it.

- climbing up a mountain side and then discovering you can't move another foot and need help going back down.
- taking a ride to deep inside a salt mine mountain and for the first time learning you're claustrophobic.
- driving in a fast traffic freeway and hoping you don't pass out.
- feeling you're about to get stuck in an elevator because the door is taking too long to open.

Having lunch at the edge of a cliff? Right. Until a strong wind comes along or you're suddenly hit with vertigo. No, thank you!

Am I the only neurotic one here?
 

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