America, thy sin is vanity.

Then I remembered using the timer with the then-wife on vacation a number of times.
That brings to mind the consequence of asking somebody as Clarke W. Griswold did in "European Vacation", to the price of the "monopod" might be quite cheap in comparison.
And that such snaps can be used by psycho killers presenting slide shows, asking "Do you see?"
That's one of the big ones, for sure. However, this device is late coming to our shores. The Pacific Rim nations have been going crazy for these things for a while now.
I'll bet it was invented in Japan, you know how they are with photography stuff.