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Selfie deaths: 259 people reported dead seeking the perfect picture
The quest for extreme selfies killed 259 people between 2011 and 2017, a 2018 global study has revealed.
Researchers at the US National Library of Medicine recommend that 'no selfie zones' should be introduced at dangerous spots to reduce deaths.
These would include the tops of mountains, tall buildings and lakes, where many of the deaths occurred.
Drowning, transport accidents and falling were found to be the most common cause of death.
But death by animals, electrocution, fire and firearms also appeared frequently in reports from around the world.
Selfies: A boon or bane? (open, DOI: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_109_18) (DX)
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At Least 259 People Died Trying to Take Selfies Between 2011 and 2017
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Future looks spotty. You will spill soup in late evening.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by khallow on Sunday October 07 2018, @04:57AM (6 children)
This is utterly retarded. 259 over a seven year period is less than 40 people worldwide per year. So we're advised to create and issue a ban over a significant amount of real estate for that? How many sources of death are there that kill that many people? How many huge bans on our behavior should we thus implement?
For example, there's vastly more deaths on mountains from bad weather, falls, etc than selfies. Should we ban people from mountains altogether?
(Score: 3, Funny) by BsAtHome on Sunday October 07 2018, @07:37AM (3 children)
No, your are doing it wrong. We must ban mountains. Problem solved!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @09:00PM
You city dwellers keep thinking mountains are cute, but Paul Bunyan flattened them for a damn good reason. They cause harm, both directly to humans and indirectly by killing our livestock.
We even blew up Mount Monadnock just to wipe out a mountain range. The mountain is still blown up 2 centuries later.
At this point, reintroducing the mountain is like introducing an invasive species. One might as well release lions and tigers and hippos and tse-tse flies and bot flies and the guinea worm. Heck, go for smallpox too!
People who support mountains are a special kind of traitor. It's not really against a country. It's against humanity itself. We tamed the wilderness so we could live safely, and some people want to undo that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @10:06PM
It will take miners many decades of work, but they are working hard today to do exactly that. Plains states from sea to shining sea! :)
Well, assuming the mountains can be resold for more than it costs to level them of course.
(Score: 2) by Hyper on Monday October 08 2018, @03:59AM
You are doing it wrong. Obviously we need to make a law to force all phones with camera capabilities must have GPS enabled, the phone must check its location at all times against a database, the camera must be disabled if a person is in a known dangerous selfie location and if a person does try to take a picture near one of these locations then their phone must report them.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday October 07 2018, @10:07AM
I agree completely, 40 a year is a ridiculous rate if we want to clear the world of them. We need to start advertising the following selfie spots: Edges of cliffs, tall structures without safety nets, active volcanoes, and deep chasms. Maybe handling out free alcohol alongside said location would make it easier for the selfidiots to remove themselves from the gene pool.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Sunday October 07 2018, @03:30PM
Welcome to the world of politics. It doesn't matter that people die every day from all kinds of other things. It SOUNDS like a big issue, someone has spit out official scary looking numbers, common people/voters identify with the issue but can't do the math, and somebody can make money "addressing" this issue. Somewhere there is probably some relative of one or more of these consumertards that died taking selfies bitching that "something should be done, thinkofthechildrenyoucantbetoosafeverryscarystuffpollywannacracker", so let's make them happy by earning us some government money.
Got to protect people from themselves. This world isn't getting any smarter. At the rate things are going, soon leaving our cages at all will be banned.