A fun night drinking with friends turned tragic for a man in Mexico, who died when he posed with a gun to shoot a selfie, but accidentally fired the weapon.
Oscar Otero Aguilar was enjoying a booze-filled night with two buddies last weekend in Mexico City when he picked up his .45-caliber pistol and thought it would be a good idea to take a picture of himself, Mexico’s Proceso magazine reports. But when the 21-year-old went to take the killer selfie, he accidentally pulled the trigger of the wood-handled pistol, firing off a single round into his forehead, according to police.
A Polish couple vacationing in Portugal fell to their deaths over the weekend while posing for a selfie with their children on the edge of a beachside cliff in the latest selfie-related death. Stories of deadly self-portraits are increasing as more and more people use their cellphone cameras.
The Polish family was vacationing at the cliffs of Cabo da Roca on the coast of Portugal, a popular tourist destination near Lisbon, when the parents somehow slipped and plunged off the cliff while posing for a selfie, according to The Independent. The couple's children, aged 5 and 6, witnessed their parents' deaths and are now in the custody of Polish diplomats.
An Italian teenager has died after falling 60 feet on to jagged rocks as she tried to take a ‘selfie’.
Sixteen-year-old Isabella Fracchiolla was trying to take a photograph of herself on the seafront during a school trip to the seaside town of Taranto, in south-eastern Italy. The schoolgirl who suffered injuries to her femur, pelvis and head was rushed to hospital where she underwent a major operation. But doctors were unable to save her life, Italian newspaper Corriere del Mezzogiorno said.
Perhaps it's time to cool it on the selfies. A 21-year-old Spanish man died Saturday after he was struck by a high-voltage wire while climbing atop a stopped train in order to take a photo of himself and friends. He had assumed the wire was not electrified, according to reports from the southern city of Andújar.
The 3,500-volt discharge instantly killed the man, police say. Another friend survived the shock and remains in serious condition at a local hospital. The town's mayor has declared the next three days of mourning.
http://nypost.com/2014/08/04/man-accidentally-kills-himself-taking-gun-toting-selfie/
A tribute to all those who have died in the pursuit of epic selfies: