Replies

Now he's famous. Dumbass.

1 posted on 05/04/2025 1:51:01 PM PDT by Libloather

“Pierced his spine...treated with a few stitches.”

Those Italian docs are amazing!

2 posted on 05/04/2025 1:52:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)

I find I lack sympathy for such things.

3 posted on 05/04/2025 1:54:06 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (People who receive less results for effort will naturally put in less effort when the game is rigged)

People take such risks for a selfie. How crazy are these people?

People have died trying to get selfies. What the heck motivates someone to tempt fate just to get a picture?

4 posted on 05/04/2025 1:55:27 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego

Reality imitates history.

5 posted on 05/04/2025 1:59:25 PM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)

The “Ugly American” in real life.

10 posted on 05/04/2025 2:02:19 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Kamala defines herself in just 4 words..."Nothing comes to mind.")

I was there just two weeks ago. I just don’t understand why this thing didn’t happened to me, too.

11 posted on 05/04/2025 2:03:22 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)

At least hes alive. Not like the gals and guys who fall off cliffs or climb stuff they arent supposed to and fall.

12 posted on 05/04/2025 2:04:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)

Live for the selfie, die by the selfie.

13 posted on 05/04/2025 2:04:24 PM PDT by rbg81 (=)

He thought he was smarter than the ones who go to the edge of a cliff and then require a friend with a telephoto smartphone to see them at the bottom of the gorge.

Some highlights.
The US Dept. of Transportation estimated that in 2014, the so-called “year of the selfie”, 33,000 people were injured while driving and using a cell-phone in some fashion.

3 teenagers hit by a Union Pacific train....had just posted the message “Standing right by a train ahaha this is awesome!!!!”

Russia.
A 17-year-old girl fell 30 feet to her death after being hit by 1,500 volts when attempting to grab live wires on a railway bridge.

Wales A walker in the Brecon Beacons was struck by lightning when the metal selfie stick he was using to capture a photograph acted like a lightning rod, causing death by electrocution.

29 year old amateur pilot crashed, killing himself and a passenger as he was taking selfies.

Russia. Two young men died in the Ural Mountains after they pulled the pin from a live hand grenade to take a selfie. The phone with the picture remained as evidence of the incident.

India. Seven people drowned while taking selfies on Mangrul Lake Their boat had tipped over as they were standing up to pose.

Spain. A man was gored to death in the annual bull-running festival in Villaseca de la Sagra while trying to take a selfie with a bull.

Believe it or not, many dozens more as on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injuries_and_deaths

15 posted on 05/04/2025 2:09:16 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )

18 posted on 05/04/2025 2:10:08 PM PDT by Az Joe (uired to.)

did anyone else get a selfie next to the guy? now that would be one HECK of a selfie!

19 posted on 05/04/2025 2:12:04 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )

Revenge of the Emperors.

20 posted on 05/04/2025 2:13:20 PM PDT by Beowulf9

21 posted on 05/04/2025 2:13:35 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)

stitched up but not clear if cured — of stupidity.

22 posted on 05/04/2025 2:18:15 PM PDT by avital2

Did the crowds give a thumbs up or down?

23 posted on 05/04/2025 2:18:38 PM PDT by fso301

This could be Pope Francis’ first miracle.

His coffin passed by the colosseum

25 posted on 05/04/2025 2:22:49 PM PDT by ChronicMA

If your indian name is “Selfies with Bears”, it’s gonna be a short movie.

26 posted on 05/04/2025 2:25:18 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim

28 posted on 05/04/2025 2:27:39 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )

29 posted on 05/04/2025 2:28:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)

No pics of it? No one at the colosseum had a camera?

31 posted on 05/04/2025 2:30:48 PM PDT by Farmerbob

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794