The selfie which has been made word of the year in 2013 by Oxford Dictionaries, is not a trend that is dying down any time soon (yes, pun intended). Point is, people will continue to take selfies, regardless of whether it is a sign of a mental disorder or not. Eventually people decided that simple selfies are just too ordinary and have tried to take more exciting ones. Like the man who got trampled by a bull while snapping a selfie or the pesky fans endangering both themselves and the cyclists participating in the Tour de France. For the good of all that is holy, I plead you all to stop taking dangerous selfies lest you end up like these
5 instances where the selfie is not worth dying for.
Don't Play With Guns
Oscar Otero Aguilar loves to take selfies. In fact the 21-year-old is well-known among his Facebook friends for his many selfie poses with cars and women. One day, having a drink too many with a couple of buddies, Aguilar
attempted to take a selfie with a gun to his head. The gun went off and Aguilar passed away on the way to the hospital. 5 Instances Of Selfie Fatalityvia Yahoo One of his buddies, Omar Abner Campos Vives, told the police that Aguilar
didn't realize that the gun was loaded. Regardless of whether a gun is loaded or not, it is quite clear from this case that you do
not play with guns. At all. Most definitely do not selfie with a gun. No one thinks it's cool when you are no longer with them in the land of the living.
#DrivingSelfie
Unlike Aguilar, Courtney Sanford was sober when she took a selfie while she was driving. While she drove her way to work on Interstate 85 in North Carolina, the 32-year-old
constantly took selfies of herself and posted them on Facebook. She had also posted a status update saying "The happy song makes me HAPPY!" at 8.33am. At 8.34am, police received a call about a head-on collision between a car and a t
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