Death by selfie: Liberal retard man falls off a cliff at Machu Picchuwhile posing for a photo

A German tourist fell off a cliff and died Wednesday while
posing for a photo in Machu Picchu, the Inca citadel in southern
Peru.

Oliver Park, 51, had ventured into a restricted area of the
tourist spot in the Andes, and despite signs warning people to
stay away from the cliff’s edge, he asked a fellow tourist to
take his photo.

He then lost his balance and fell 130 feet to his death.

"He asked a man who was there to take a photo of him," Guillermo
Mestas, a Peruvian tourist recounted to Canal N.

“The man came over to take the photo and in the moment he was
handing him the camera, he lost his balance and fell.”

A conflicting report from the BBC says the man was posing for
the photo by leaping into the air and lost his footing.

Park's body was removed from the Peruvian mountainside, and
carried by train to a morgue in the city of Cusco.

Death-by-selfie is not as uncommon as one would think.

Also this week, and also in Peru, a South Korean tourist fell to
his death while taking a selfie in the Amazon rainforest — he
falling 1,600 feet off the Gocta waterfall.

Last year, a Japanese tourist died after falling down stairs
while taking a selfie at the Taj Mahal.

According to The Washington Post, in March a Washington man
fatally shot himself in the face while taking a selfie with what
he believed was an unloaded gun.

Believed to have been a royal estate or sacred religious site
for Inca leaders, Machu Picchu was built by the Incas in the
15th century, and later abandoned by the Spanish conquistadors a
century later.

The site is located 8,000 feet above sea level, and the ruins
lie on a high ridge offering astounding views of the Sacred
Valley, through which the Urubamba River flows 2,000 feet below.
It was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.

More than one million visitors made the journey to Machu Picchu
in 2014 alone.

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On 2016-07-03, Gene Pool Rises wrote:
A German tourist fell off a cliff and died Wednesday while
posing for a photo in Machu Picchu, the Inca citadel in southern
Peru.

[...]

Photographers have been walking off the edge of things, often backwards,
at least since the advent of hand-held cameras. That's one of the
things a photographer's assistant is meant to look out for. It can be
most annoying when the best spot to get the photo from is just a bit
further this way ...

According to The Washington Post, in March a Washington man
fatally shot himself in the face while taking a selfie with what
he believed was an unloaded gun.

[...]

mind boggled

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On 7/3/2016 4:45 AM, Gene Pool Rises wrote:

[ ... ] , he asked a fellow tourist to
take his photo.

He then lost his balance and fell 130 feet to his death.

...snip...

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Odd definition of "selfie" being used here.
" ...he asked a fellow tourist to take his photo... "
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[Just sayin']
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Ron C
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On 2016-07-03, RichA wrote:
On Sunday, 3 July 2016 06:50:39 UTC-4, Whiskers wrote:
On 2016-07-03, Gene Pool Rises wrote:
A German tourist fell off a cliff and died Wednesday while posing
for a photo in Machu Picchu, the Inca citadel in southern Peru.

[...]

Photographers have been walking off the edge of things, often
backwards, at least since the advent of hand-held cameras. That's
one of the things a photographer's assistant is meant to look out
for. It can be most annoying when the best spot to get the photo
from is just a bit further this way ...

Dying for a definitively good photograph might even been defensible,
but not a selfie.

Some photos of people on mountains can be pretty good. But I suspect
that one wasn't going to be. At least it seems they had someone else to
hold the camera so it wasn't quite a classic 'selfie'.

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On 2016-07-04, Whisky-dave wrote:
On Sunday, 3 July 2016 10:07:16 UTC+1, Rich A wrote:
On Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 5:00:07 AM UTC-4, Gene Pool Rises wrote:


More than one million visitors made the journey to Machu Picchu in
2014 alone.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/new...ath-by-selfie-
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photo/?intcmp=obinsite

I knew they made part of the site a no-go area because of wear and
tear on the pyramid. But you know, dying in such a place is a lot
more interesting than racked with cancer in some hospital bed.

John Peel died there of a heart attack due to lack of oxygen.

Yep, that one will get you every time.

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On 7/3/16 PDT 3:05 PM, Ron C wrote:
On 7/3/2016 4:45 AM, Gene Pool Rises wrote:

[ ... ] , he asked a fellow tourist to
take his photo.

He then lost his balance and fell 130 feet to his death.

...snip...

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/new...ath-by-selfie-
man-falls-off-cliff-at-machu-picchu-while-posing-for-
photo/?intcmp=obinsite


Odd definition of "selfie" being used here.
" ...he asked a fellow tourist to take his photo... "
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[Just sayin']

Like many words and definitions, it has morphed, the selfie has. So
asking someone else to photograph you singly in a place of beauty is, to
many, a "selfie". Just one opinion!