Friday, October 2, 2015

Selfies kill more people than sharks

from MacDailyNews:
“Think before you selfie, you guys, because sometimes getting the right angle on those pictures can have serious (even fatal!) consequences,” Lindsey Caldwell reports for E! Online.
“According to a new study, there have now been more deaths this year from selfies than there have been from shark attacks,” Caldwell reports. “The death toll for selfie-related deaths now totals 12 people, whereas deaths related to shark attacks totals 8 people.”
“The most recent selfie related death occurred in India where, according to BBC, a 66-year-old tourist named Hideto Ueda died after attempting to take a, you guessed it, photo of himself for his friends and family to see,” Caldwell reports. “Per an eyewitness’ account, Ueda and a friend fell to their untimely deaths while attempting to take a picture at the Taj Mahal’s Royal Gate. ”
Read more in the full article here

MacDailyNews Take: Darwinism at work. 

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