Proud to say I've never taken a selfie.
People are dying for the perfect selfie. A new study – “Me, Myself and My Killfie: Characterizing and Preventing Selfie Deaths” – found 127 people died in a 29-month span through September trying to get photos of themselves at dangerous or exotic locations. Researchers found the overwhelming majority of the deaths occurred in India, where 76 people died. In the United States, there were eight selfie-related deaths. The most common factor behind the so-called “selfie deaths” was a fall from an elevated location like buildings or mountains. Deaths involving both elevation and water were next, followed by fatalities involving trains, according to researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and two colleges in India. Media: Brandpoint
My sympathy meter is broken for this one. Darwin award. All of these deaths from selfies....Darwin award.
If you’re doing a selffie on train tracks, be sure to use a wide-angle setting so that the train is closer than it appears.
Is it not possible to translate the phrase “Active Runway” to ye old Espanol?
¡Mantener mi cerveza y mira esto!
Selfie snuffies?
Hmmm...
‘North by Northwest’
Chínipas, Chihuahua I found the runway on google earth, but i don’t see any horse race track...
No worries of them “immigrating” to the U.S. and having anchor babies now.
Proud to say I've never taken a selfie.
Herve Villechaize could not be reached for comment.
It troubles me the lack of sympathy for two kids. The article states they couldn’t hear the plane. Who cares why. If they were taking selfies of themselves to capture the incoming plane you might argue “they had it coming” because the plane would be getting huge in their viewfinder. But if the article is accurate that isn’t what they were doing.
It sounds to me they were kids being kids, and having been to Mexico and knowing they don’t know the first thing about safety I don’t blame the kids at all. A rural airstrip is not the tarmac at JFK.
The mother is a saint and prayers for the souls of the girls.
At least it wasn't the propellers.
Dumb Ways to Die.....
Two kids die and trolls here make jokes.
They should get the ZOT