Noah X 5,250 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 https://www.yahoo.com/travel/so-sad-so-dumb-selfies-kill-more-people-than-160318578.html So Sad, So Dumb. Selfies Kill More People Than Sharks The selfie nabs one more victim. A Japanese tourist has diedafter attempting to take a self-portrait at the Taj Mahal’s Royal Gate. The 66-year-old man fell down the stairs and suffered head injuries, losing consciousness and leading to his death. In May of this year, a 21-year-old accidentally shot herself while posing with a gun in Moscow (she lived); and in August, a man was gored while attempting to snap himself during a bull running in Spain (he died). It’s gotten so bad in Russia, where kids have been electrocuted while trying to take selfies on top of train cars, the government has launched a public-service campaign to warn young people about locations where it might not be so smart to take a photo Mashable went a step further in putting this so-tragic-it’s-tragic trend into perspective, crunching to numbers to determine that more lives in 2015 have been lost to selfie mishaps (12) than to shark attacks (eight). In the article, reporter Cailey Rizzo notes that four of those selfie deaths were the result of falls. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bette Davis 12,742 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 It's only a matter of time Kim Cold as ice cream, but still as sweet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gohan 16,859 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 It's only a matter of time Kim Rudo tryna go ask Alice, tryna catch that rabbit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SychosSoChic 9,995 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 This is what they call Natural Selection. Life ain't Hollywood for any one of us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewYorkCity 10,536 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Everytime I see someone with one of those things I die a little inside. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bette Davis 12,742 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Rudo Cold as ice cream, but still as sweet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkchylde 14,857 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 This ''I'm better than those who take selfies and this article proves it'' attitude is so toxic. Selfies are nothing but a way to express ourselves and in a society as harmful to our self steem as this one, I don't think there's anything bad in doing so.You can clearly tell this article is written towards teenagres from the baby-boomer point of view. Otherwise, it'd be entitled ''Being careless kills more than sharks''. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riot Poof 2,236 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Selfies alone don't kill/harm people. It's the situations these people put themselves in that are dangerous (posing with loaded guns, posing on train cars, posing with/near agitated bulls). I'm not a woman. I'm not a man. I am something that you'll never understand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkJelly 1,825 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 If people are stupid enough to put themselves in these situations, then... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luiz 4,253 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 selfiecide has been getting more and more attention recently what on earth I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bear 7,515 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Stupidity kills people. It really doesn't take a lot of common sense to avoid some of these accidents Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sister 9,907 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 I am not a selfie~ The future's uncertain and the end is always near. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
uo111 5,282 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 This ''I'm better than those who take selfies and this article proves it'' attitude is so toxic. Selfies are nothing but a way to express ourselves and in a society as harmful to our self steem as this one, I don't think there's anything bad in doing so.You can clearly tell this article is written towards teenagres from the baby-boomer point of view. Otherwise, it'd be entitled ''Being careless kills more than sharks''.There is some evidence that points to a correlation between taking selfies and a range of negative attributes, whether it be low self-esteem or narcissism. Though I agree, looking down upon people who take selfies does more harm than good, encouraging excessive selfie taking or even excusing it as completely harmless is also not a good thing. You wouldn't help either way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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