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Nov 4, 2020 03:46:03   #
LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America
 
Selfies cause more fatalities than do shark attacks.

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Nov 4, 2020 09:35:17   #
Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.
 
I didn’t know that.

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Nov 4, 2020 14:28:01   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
LWW wrote:
Selfies cause more fatalities than do shark attacks.


Just a few I can recall from the news the last few years:
1. many of people standing or stepping front of a moving vehicle
2. a few stepping off into an open manhole - in at least one case landing on and injuring a worker down below
3. a few who stepped off cliffs or piers/high buildings trying to get a better background, angle etc. One backed off a cliff into the Grand
Canyon.
4. getting too close to a large animal wild or otherwise to pose with the animal and finding the animal didn't like you being in their private
space
5. at least one who stepped into a HOT spring trying for a better selfie - I don't remember if the cause of death was "boiled alive" or
drowned but by the time they got gear to fish the person out the body was definitely "well done".

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Nov 4, 2020 15:28:53   #
Swede Loc: Trail, BC Canada
 
LWW wrote:
Selfies cause more fatalities than do shark attacks.


Just Nov 4th!!

Interesting,

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Nov 4, 2020 18:28:19   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
It's those darn point and shoot cameras. They're deadly!!

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