# Man dies trying to take a selfie on a railway track.

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/21 "2015-12-16T07:29:31Z")

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Did his nemesis go, “Beep! Beep!” or did he end up saying, “Thith ith gething monothonouth”?

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/22 "2015-12-16T07:42:37Z")

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> [@Randolph](#):
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> Personally, I blame the engineer. Why didn’t he drive around him?

I blame the train designer who cheaped out on provision of a steering wheel.

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**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/23 "2015-12-16T08:23:43Z")

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It’d be even more tragic if it came to light that he had his phone’s camera oriented in the wrong direction and was actually taking a photo of a random landscape or whatever instead of himself. He’d be taking shit from the other disembodied souls forever for a goof like that.

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**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/24 "2015-12-16T20:30:26Z")

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> [@robert\_columbia](#):
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> O long Johnson!

O Don Piano!

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**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-dies-trying-to-take-a-selfie-on-a-railway-track/740521/25 "2015-12-17T14:27:02Z")

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> [@usedtobe](#):
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> Why is the “Guard”:
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> 1. Even there?
> 2. Armed with a friggin’ ‘assault gun’-type weapon?
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> 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?

One of the perks of having a decade long insurgency.☹

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