Selfies can be fatal

Aug 16, 2014 12:10 PM

PseudoSumo

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Xenia Ignatyeva took a selfie from a bridge 28 feet off the ground to impress her friends. The 17-year-old Russian girl lost her balance and fell on a cable, which tragically electrocuted her.

In December of 2012 Mexican pop star Jenni Rivera and her entourage took this selfie right before taking off on a private jet which sadly crashed and left no survivors.

This is a selfie snapped by a famous Puerto Rican reggaetón musician Jadiel, uploaded to Instagram moments before he had a fatal motorcycle crash in New York in May, 2014.

Gary Slok and his mother took this selfie minutes before taking off from Amsterdam on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine in July, 2014.

In March 2014 a 21-year-old man died in Jaén, Spain by electrocution when he climbed to the top of a moving train to take a selfie.

On April 26, 2014 Courtney Sanford posted this picture of her reacting to the Pharrel Williams song 'Happy' while driving through North Carolina; seconds later she crashed into a truck and the accident proved to be fatal.

21-year old Oscar Otero Aguilar lost his life when he tried to take a selfie with a gun for his Facebook page in July of 2014. The Mexican gun enthusiast accidentally shot himself in the head and didn't survive.

A 13-year-old girl named Karen Hernández wanted to snap a selfie on the banks of the El Tunal river in Durango, Mexico. Unfortunately she fell into the river and drowned; firefighters recovered her body in July.

A Polish couple on vacation in Portugal tried to take a selfie on the edge of a cliff on August 10, 2014 . . . they both fell to their death.

These two women wanted to take a selfie while singing karaoke in their car . . . The Iranian girls stopped watching the road to record this video and crashed into another car. They survived and took another selfie on the way to the hospital.

Some of these stories are tragic, some of them are Darwinian evolution in action.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Don't know whether to upvote because I hate selfies, or downvote because I hate selfies. Ah, hell. Upvote, I guess.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And that, my friends, is why I don't take selfies

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Those goddam movie trains....deadly

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

excellent, darwin awards for everyone.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Natural selection!

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I fixed the typo! My apologies

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Except for the Dutch people on the airplane they all got what they deserve. They put other lives in danger too by this.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

This needs to be forwarded to every 8 year old on the planet, once a year before they turn 15. They need to be scared of stupidity.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

TL:DR Darwinism is slowly eradicating the idiots.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So taking selfies while driving a moving car is a bad idea? No wai.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

that first one is a someone-elsie.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That top one looks alot higher then 28 feet.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I it pisses me off when innocent people die because of stupid mistakes from other people.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

can i ask how they managed to get that photo of the mother and son from mh17?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Any media sharing website I guess. Facebook, twitter, instagram, etc

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

but did they actually upload it? i've been following it all pretty closely and haven't seen that photo before

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

TIL selfies cause air planes to be shot down.

11 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 1

Well you are supposed to turn off all electronic devices...

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Most of this is Darwinism in its purest form o.o

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

O.O

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ô.ô

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ó.Ò

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0