In Russia, selfie takes you!
Russia campaigns to stop SUICIDALLY STUPID selfies
Russia's Interior Ministry has started an education campaign to convince the populace that high-flying, high-risk selfies can kill. Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs, Lieutenant Colonel of Police Elena Alekseeva, yesterday launched the “safety selfie” programme after several Russian citizens came to grisly ends whilst …
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Wednesday 8th July 2015 12:08 GMT Anonymous Coward
They forgot this gem from the "rimming mouthpiece of the surveillance state" broadsheet:
Lightning bolt struck and killed Brecon Beacons walker 'because he was carrying a selfie stick'
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Wednesday 8th July 2015 12:47 GMT Kubla Cant
Re: Sure it was the selfie stick?
Yes. Sure it was the selfie* stick. But it wasn't the electrical conductivity of the stick that caused the lightning strike - it was the judgement of $DEITY on selfie-takers. One down, 999,999,999 to go.
* When did we all decide to use baby-talk? Selfie, onesie... should I start saying horsey, piggie and doggie?
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Wednesday 8th July 2015 13:45 GMT Destroy All Monsters
Re: Sure it was the selfie stick?
When did we all decide to use baby-talk?
This kind of trend started after the OId Bush, IIRC.
It went downhill since. At one point, we were talking about what the definition of the word "is" is, now we are down to scraping hope & change from the bottom of barrels and detecting HITLER every week, if not THE ECONOMY IS IMPROVING and RAAH KIM KARDASHIAN'S ARSE.
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Friday 10th July 2015 15:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: "or after climbing to the top of electricity pylons"
> Is that a hobby or something ?
Sort of. To be honest, risk perception and attitudes towards it are *really* not in the same league as those of the Western European middle class. The Russian text accompanying the icon says a school kid got electrocuted on one of those.
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Wednesday 8th July 2015 19:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
Anytime there's an awesome video of people doing crazy stuff
I don't even have to look, it is always Russians. Taking dangerous selfies is the tip of the iceberg. Those guys are nuts, must be all the vodka!
If it wasn't for Russia, the MTV show Ridiculousness would have half as many episodes, and Youtube would have a much higher ratio of cat videos.
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Thursday 9th July 2015 02:26 GMT Daniel B.
Re: Anytime there's an awesome video of people doing crazy stuff
In America, kids play Call of Duty to fight fictional wars. In Putin Russia, kids go out to street to fight street brawl wars!
In America, kids play GTA to do dangerous driving stunts. In Putin Russia, everyone drives like that in real life!
In America, kids play Assassin's Creed. In Putin Russia, they do parkour themselves while using selfie sticks to record themselves!
Maybe Russians just need more videogames.
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