Posted on 06/13/2018 11:13:40 AM PDT by Gamecock
A British woman plunged to her death, along with her partner, while taking a selfie on a picturesque wall in Portugal, according to local authorities.
Perth man Michael Kearns, 33, Louise Benson, 37, his British partner, fell 30 metres off a beach wall and were found by shocked locals early on Tuesday morning.
Rui Pereira da Terra, the captain of the maritime authority in Cascais, said the two victims appeared to have lost their balance while taking a photograph overlooking Fishermen’s Beach.
“Everything seems to indicate that the fall happened when they were probably trying to take a selfie,” he said.
"As we found a mobile phone on the wall, our theory is that they were taking a selfie, but they dropped the phone and leaned to grab it and fell," Mr Pereira da Terra told the Portuguese Lusa news agency.
Locals have said the wall is dangerous, and have asked for something to be done about it.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
We ain’t putting guardrails on all things high. Let the idiots kill themselves.
We need a mandatory 10 day waiting period to take a selfie.
the wall is NOT dangerous, STOOOPID is dangerous...
Count me in, Tex.
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