Teen plunges to his death at Nevada Fall in Yosemite National Park [Death by "Selfie"]

Los Angeles Times ^ | Sep 06, 2018 | 6:55 PM | Alene Tchekmedyian

[cmj328]

Pride goeth...

[Getready]

Real gravity trumps digital virtual reality. Are we sure his last pic isnt gonna end up as clickbait....as in “what happened next is a shocker”....

Either way...God rest his soul...and his family and friends...

[BunnySlippers]

According to the park service, most accidents there occur during wet conditions.

Wet conditions. I suspect the waterfalls are wet almost always.

[Inyo-Mono]

Nothing unusual about this. Read Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite by Michael P. Ghiglieri & "Butch" Farabee, Jr. Many visitors, fall and drown there every year, mostly through carelessness.

[kanawa]

Frankfurter’s hot dogging results in Nevada Fall fall.

[American in Israel]

Perhaps we should raise the selfie camera age limit to 21.

[rjsimmon]

Perhaps we should raise the selfie camera age limit to 21.

That might work. That is, until the media raises the "teenage" upper bracket to 35.

[Morpheus2009]

Another Darwin Award nominee...

[EQAndyBuzz]

Guns don’t kill people. Selfies kill people.

[rktman]

Let's promote "SELFIE FREE ZONES". There has been such awesome success with "GUN FREE ZON..........." Oh. Never mind. 😬📸

[bgill]

Selfiecide.

[Vinnie]

Frankfurter’s hot dogging results in Nevada Fall fall.

Apparently Tomer Frankfurter was a Hebrew National.

[EdnaMode]

Sad story.

[super7man]

I’ve been to the top of Nevada Falls numerous times. It amazes the number of people that take dangerous risks at the top. Climbing over safety rails to get a better picture. Letting their kids play near the water rushing by (that water is really moving). Throwing rolls of toilet paper off the top (not dangerous until you slip).

Each year there are at least two that go over the edge. Its sad when it is kid that goes.

[xone]

Nope, ‘a haughty spirit’.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Gravity sucks.

[ghost of nixon]

If the National Park Service were really concerned about the safety of their guests, they would hand each visitor a list of people who died in YNP, the cause of their death, and the stupid decision they made. Visitor is required to hand write “I am not this stupid” at the bottom of the list and sign their name.

[T-Bone Texan]

There is a depressing SubReddit (that is, a subordinate site within the larger website called Reddit) for last photos of people before they died.

Sure, there were lots of old people on their deathbeds, but a large number were of young people, which was sad.

I had to stop after a while. It got real depressing.

I found the subreddit of people getting killed on camera to be much less depressing for some reason, maybe because those were mostly narcocartel people getting hacked to death and not innocents.

[libh8er]

“what happened next is a shocker”.”

Whenever I see a headline like that I tell myself “too bad I will never find out.”