# Man dies trying to take a selfie on a railway track. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 15, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521 "2015-12-15T12:09:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/1 "2015-12-15T12:09:49Z")
What [can you say](http://tribune.com.pk/story/1010292/man-dies-after-trying-to-take-selfie-on-rawalpindi-train-track/)? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/2 "2015-12-15T12:39:05Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > What can you say? Darwin Award finalist? Another victim of the selfie disease? Trains 1 People 0? My work here is done… ---
**Author:** ![davida03801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/3 "2015-12-15T12:39:48Z")
Candidate for the Darwin Awards competition. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/4 "2015-12-15T12:39:50Z")
Ummm, “Watch out!” ??? ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/5 "2015-12-15T12:47:13Z")
At least the railroad shouldn’t get the blame this time. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/6 "2015-12-15T12:58:38Z")
What I can say is “Eww!” (reading the linked story about how selfies are increasing the incidence of head lice in America. \*"A group of US paediatricians has warned that taking selfies have increased the number of head lice cases among teenagers, reports The Independent. According to the group, there is a growing trend of “social media lice” that causes lice to spread when teenagers join their heads together to take a selfie."\* ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/7 "2015-12-15T13:06:36Z")
Selfies, death, clickbait and an excuse for us posters to feel superior. A perfect story _and_ a perfect thread. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/8 "2015-12-15T13:42:12Z")
Mmmm. “Perfect”, eh? I don’t know whether to celebrate. But if we do celebrate, we should include in the celebration the observation that whatever selfie he may have snapped didn’t make it into the web story about it. At least that would have been something… ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/9 "2015-12-15T13:42:47Z")
Are we sure it wasn’t a suicide? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/10 "2015-12-15T13:46:30Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > Are we sure it wasn’t a suicide? According to the TV news, CCTV seems to suggest; not a suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Ispolkom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47774/32.png) [@Ispolkom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ispolkom)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/11 "2015-12-15T14:11:16Z")
That poor engineer. ---
**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/12 "2015-12-15T15:04:45Z")
Personally, I blame the engineer. Why didn’t he drive around him? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/13 "2015-12-15T15:08:50Z")
Toot toot! Peanut butter. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/14 "2015-12-15T15:51:48Z")
I’ve always appreciated comical injuries, but the ones resulting in death get harder for me to chuckle at as I get older. The guy presumably has a family that’s going to miss him. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/15 "2015-12-15T17:26:47Z")
O long Johnson! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/16 "2015-12-15T17:37:08Z")
Ding ding ding went the trolley Bell bell bell went the bell ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/17 "2015-12-15T17:44:34Z")
I specifically said no geeks ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/18 "2015-12-16T00:15:33Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Ding ding ding went the trolley > Bell bell bell went the bell _Punches Drunky Smurf in the gut_ ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/19 "2015-12-16T07:21:49Z")
Why is the “Guard”: 1. Even there? 2. Armed with a friggin’ ‘assault gun’-type weapon? Pakistan’s trains need to be guarded against the riders? Are the riders so determined to board that lethal force is needed to restrain them? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/20 "2015-12-16T07:25:29Z")
Never mind. Ninja’d. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521.md?page=2)