Polish Couple Fall Off Cliff And Die While Taking Selfies

Washington Post ^ | August11, 2014 | Elahe Izadi

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Polish Couple Fall Off Cliff And Die While Taking Selfies

By Elahe Izadi August 11

The view from the cliffs of Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point of continental Europe, north west of Lisbon, Portugal. (Associated Press/Armando Franca) A Polish man and woman taking selfies at the cliffs of Cabo Da Roca in Portugal on Saturday fell to their deaths. According to investigators, the couple had been taking photos of themselves when they fell down a cliff and into the Atlantic Ocean, NBC reports. A rescue team recovered their bodies Sunday after having to suspend their search Saturday due to bad weather.

Falling off of a cliff while snapping a photo is an uncommonly tragic event, but there is a wider trend of being distracted by digital devices that has become the focus of several public safety campaigns from car companies and government agencies.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Polish-that says it all.

[CivilWarBrewing]

I’d imagine the last photo is a bit blurry.

[houeto]

I’m not touching this one.

[Defiant]

The first selfie snuff film.

[Ray76]

[GeronL]

selfie-ish

[Mrs. Don-o]

I read their kids were there. How awful.

[combat_boots]

WHAT! Their kids saw this happen?

[Jonty30]

I was at the Grand Canyon this past March. When I was there, there was a guy that was getting his picture taken. He was purposefully leaning about 6” over the edge. A good gust of wind was all that it would have taken to push him over.

[nascarnation]

That was what impressed me the most about GC.

I figured in this modern era of pantywaist wimps, the fedgov would have built fences along every foot of canyonside.

But no, any idiot can walk right up and fall in, LOL. Very refreshing.

[Ray76]

Video report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmd2mOv7IFo

[Ray76]

fell 80 metres (~87 yards)

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/holiday-couple-taking-selfie-cliffs-4035691#.U-lnFRh0ZOo

[cherry]

I knew this would be an opportunity for Polish jokes....Polish ridicule.....people being beheaded for being Christian yet we still have the Polish jokes....

arse....

[COBOL2Java]

I take a commuter train. As the train was entering our station, I turned to notice a 30-ish man leaning over the edge of the platform with his arm outstretched, waving at the oncoming train. As if that wasn't STUPID enough, he was holding on to his 8-year-old daughter, who was also leaning out from the platform! I yelled at him, "That's incredibly stupid and dangerous!" He just gave me a goofy grin. Fortunately the engineer of the commuter train blasted his horn at this idiot father, and frightened by the loud sound, the two jumped back on the platform, in time, like a couple of feral animals startled by a sudden loud sound.

"Moron!" I said to myself. Takes all kinds...

[Shimmer1]

Oh dear!

[RichInOC]

“But let me tell you something folks- you can’t fix stupid. There’s not a pill you can take. There’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is fo-evah.”

[Mrs. Don-o]

Couple killed after falling off cliff in Portugal while taking selfie with children

The couple, who were visiting from Poland, slipped and fell off a cliff in Cabo da Roca while taking a picture with their two children, ages 5 and 6, authorities said. The children were placed in the care of Polish diplomats and undergoing psychological evaluations.... Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/couple-plunges-deaths-portugal-selfie-children-article-1.1899500#ixzz3A8Unw9fw

[353FMG]

Could’ve been worse for the kids — they could’ve been part of the selfie.

Why people want to record themselves is a total mystery to me.

The only selfie I ever took was in a mirror with a Voigtlander 35-mm camera loaded with Ektachrome film in 1956 when I was a brainless teenager.

[cynwoody]

Taking a stroll on El Caminito Del Rey (the King’s Little Walkway), El Chorro, Spain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovXYROnhcFg