Posted on 12/14/2020 8:04:49 AM PST by conservative98
An Australian woman plunged about 260 feet to her death in front of her horrified husband and two sons after climbing over a safety barrier at a “perfect selfie” spot at a nature reserve, according to reports.
Rosy Loomba, 38, of Craigieburn, was hiking with her family at the picturesque Grampians National Park in Victoria on Saturday afternoon when she decided to pose for a photo at the Boroka lookout near the village of Halls Gap, news.com.au reported.
Police have issued many warnings about the dangers of the idyllic spot — famed on Instagram as the “perfect selfie” spot — but the woman nonetheless scaled a railing and plummeted to her death as her husband, Basant, and two young sons looked on helplessly.
It took emergency personnel more than six hours to retrieve her body from the rugged terrain using a winch, according to the news outlet.
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Maybe the memory of “Mommmmmmm!!” will be burned into the DNA of her descendants.
Those poor kids are going to be traumatized for life.
There is no going back from what they saw.
I get weak in the knees just thinking about some of those places.
A few years ago, I saw the exact site where 3 people went over one of the falls at Yosemite: a woman slipped in the fast running brook, then two men tried to save her...they all went over.
There were signs everywhere highlighting the dangers there.
OTOH, I remember being in the third "stick" during one of my 5 jumps at Airborne School. I was sitting about 10 feet of an open door on a C-141, with a great view of the terrain below. The thought that struck me at the time?
What in the hell am I doing here?
I was ok when the jump commands began, they kept you focused on your job, not about the unnatural thought of jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.
Women...God help them.
“there was nothing mentioned about it on the news”.
Maybe it is not in the news because it is an every day occurrence.
Climbing over a safety barrier at a “perfect selfie”.
A hey watch this moment thinking is optional for some people.
On our family USA tour in 1991, we got to witness the helicopter rescue of a man who had fallen into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
ML/NJ
If the free-fall time is I get than "whoops!", I don't want to fall from it.
Smooth, dry rocks can be very slippery too. I learned that the hard way when I was 12.
Well the wench was recovered by a winch operated by a wrench.
“I get than” should’ve “is less than”. I hate Otto Keereckt. I also hate that I didn’t review closely enough before posting.
Ugh. Should’ve been.
Your meaning was crystal clear; that’s all that matters.
Same. I have some photos my daughters asked if I was close to the edge. Told them no. I could fall, bounce and roll before I got to the edge.
A most horrible for her family, obviously, but, as a photographer, I’ve been there.
Not to take a selfie, although the image at post #8 is quite spectacular, but to get the picture that just can’t be got behind the barrier. In one case I crawled to the edge on my belly, in another I walked out on rock to within about six feet of the edge, not something I would have done on a rain-slicked surface. In both cases I felt completely safe, and I was willing to take what I thought was a relatively minor personal risk.
As to the fear of heights, a friend and I used to fly into his cabin at the mouth of a river. The pilot was afraid of heights to the extent that he could not look out of a second story window but had no problem flying. Go figure.
Finally, let’s not forget Angela Nikolau. Google the name for images or watch some of the videos...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UftpUtTT6oY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjWVCIwVAIY
People, when you raise your arm with phone and then raise your head/eyes to look at phone, you lose all points of reference from your field of vision, and you lose balance as a result. This is why so many die taking selfies.
Darwin award winner, except she’s already had kids
Man. Even my correction was incorrect. It was supposed to be “If the free-fall time is more than “whoops!”, I don’t want to fall from it. I need to go back to bed. The caffeine has failed to take hold this morning.
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