".... More ominously, Russia has launched a public awareness campaign to call attention to the dangers that daredevils taking selfies face. For unknown reasons, people seem to lose whatever common sense they have when the selfie siren calls to them in that country. Russian police report that at least ten people have died in 2015 taking selfies, with hundreds more injured. Earlier this year, two men in the Ural mountains took a selfie of themselves holding a hand grenade they had pulled the pin out of. The selfie was the only thing that survived the explosion. In June, a Russian woman fell off a bridge while trying to take a selfie, and train tracks are apparently popular for selfies in Russia as a “Safe Selfie” pamphlet issued by the government warns the budding photographer, “A selfie on the railway tracks is a bad idea if you value your life.”...

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