Selfie stix kill more folks than sharks

Monello

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Time to ban selfie sticks


The selfie nabs one more victim. A Japanese tourist has diedafter attempting to take a self-portrait at the Taj Mahal’s Royal Gate. The 66-year-old man fell down the stairs and suffered head injuries, losing consciousness and leading to his death.

Mashable went a step further in putting this so-tragic-it’s-tragic trend into perspective, crunching to numbers to determine that more lives in 2015 have been lost to selfie mishaps (12) than to shark attacks (eight).

Darwin wins
 
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