12 people have died this year already while trying to take a selfie...

[Kathandira]

http://www.theguardian.com/technolog...logy_b-gdntech

We are currently in September, and we already have a dozen deaths and over a thousand injuries from selfie-related accidents. More people have actually died from taking a selfie than from shark attacks, and we are nearly at the point where camera phones are causing more deaths than people getting crushed by vending machines, college football, and even the fucking Sharknado from that Syfy movie.

This is both hilarious and disturbing.

In a world of 7 billion people, this is absolutely minimum impact. I don't believe there is anything to be concerned with. I'm sure just as many people have died this year from tripping on their shoe laces.

[Deleted]

Just natural selection doing its work.

If you die while trying to take a selfie, then you are dumb and deserves what is coming ..

[Rukh]

Wow 12 whole deaths.

30 chars

[Cosmic Janitor]

These deserve their own category in the Darwin awards, otherwise they would take up all the prizes :/.

[vevox]

Thats a pretty low number considering how many people take selfies

[Cosmic Janitor]

Thats a pretty low number considering how many people take selfies

The overwhelming majority doesn't make it past "embarrassing yourself", I believe in the bell curve .

[Zelcandor]

This is pretty depressing to read. -.-

[Lava Bucket]

Before there were selfies, people died trying to impress their friends who were physically present. The only thing that changed once selfies became a thing is that you now can take your audience everywhere you go.

[Deleted]

Darwin at work... nothing to see here

More like idiocy, because there is no biological explanation that can justify this shit.

[Noradin]

Does that include those selfies taken in China when that habour blew up?
Because there were quite a few where the people taking them had no chance of survival anyway.

[Kujako]

More like idiocy, because there is no biological explanation that can justify this shit.

Idiocy can be biological.
/30 characters is too many

[Ratboy]

1 more and it will match the number of people that are killed each year by vending machines falling on them.

[Doctor Amadeus]

I genuinely feel bad for those that make a mistake and accidentally kill themselves over many of the selfish lot equally as mistaken who either take out or kill other people that didn't even have anything to do with it.

[dextersmith]

Cell phones should be banned because they're all evil!

[Cosmic Janitor]

1 more and it will match the number of people that are killed each year by vending machines falling on them.

These are way more understandable, they usually involve your change and a chocolate bar.

[zenkai]

I have a hard time feeling sorry for people who purposely put themselves in harms way