Frenchman plunges to his death taking selfie at Koh Samui waterfall

[sirineou]

5 hours ago, Tayaout said:

 Two selfie attributed deaths from Grenade?

What was it." look at me holding a grenade without it's pin"  or "having a great time at the front, BOOM!!"

[GoNavy]

Te young take such risks.  I once witnessed 20 something Asian man do jumping jacks just a coup;e of feet from the edge of the Grand Canyon while his girlfriend laughingly took photos!  I stared in disbelieving,

[sambum]

2 hours ago, CanterbrigianBangkoker said:

I would disagree there. I think there is a very strong argument for a link between the two, as do many.

 

People are becoming dumbed down in many instances because of excessive use of technology. Yes, you can of course use it to good effect by using it as tool to teach yourself and become better informed, as many people do including myself. But just as many people (in reality probably a lot more) all too often use technology to satisfy their own addictions to social media/gaming and other banal pursuits. The indulgence in such an array of mind-numbing vapidities - exhibit a - 'Candy Crush' is staggering today. There are hundreds if not thousands of examples, we can all think of many I'm sure. Before this tech existed a lot more people were forced to interact socially in person; rather than remotely, virtually or anonymously - much better for one's mental health and social ability/cognitive capacity too.  Fewer and fewer people read or devote time to intellectual pursuits these days, simultaenously the change in our now very dubious values and our radically reduced attention spans have in large part come about because of the advent of the social media age and the instant gratification culture that goes along with it.

Tech is near-solely responsible for this shift - well, our utter obsession with and dependence on it anyhow, but you can't have one without the other, can you?

 

Not to mention the exposure to EMR-RF (which wireless devices emit en-masse all day every day) has been shown to dull the senses in many animal test subjects as well as impair cognitive ability when subjects experienced overexposure to high frequency RW. There is a plethora of medical / scientific data out there from over 10,000 independent peer-reviewed studies which show evidence of the malign effects of overexposure to EMF-RF. We are insane to allow the rolling out 5g (totally untested) and for the IoT / smart-tech to take a hold of our lives even more than it already has.  

I agree with your post, but I do wish people would stop using abbreviations for some of these technological advances e.g. "EMR-RF" - <deleted>?

 

 

 

[thailandsgreat]

Also a French thing, to do daring sports.

[KamalaRider]

R.I.P. 

At least he got the picture of his life. 

Was it worth it though?

 

[ian007]

<deleted> happens.

[CanterbrigianBangkoker]

20 minutes ago, sambum said:

I agree with your post, but I do wish people would stop using abbreviations for some of these technological advances e.g. "EMR-RF" - <deleted>?

 

 

 

It's just a time-saving device mate. For lazy typers such as myself, especially if needing to be used repetitively.

 

For anyone who doesn't understand the meaning:

 

EMR - Electromagnentic radiation 

RF - Radio-wave frequency

 

Cheers.

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

What can one say except RIP

Bon voyage RIP?

[simtemple]

There's no accounting for stupidity. Thai road users demonstrate similar levels of crass stupidity on Thai roads every day.  Hardly worth reporting. 

[Skallywag]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

 

The victim was taking a selfie when he slipped and fell, said Samitsak. 

A one of a kind selfie must make it all worthwhile, otherwise why risk it and when can we see it? 

Saw this 120KG + farang on the back of a honda motorcycle taxi driven by a 60 KG Thai guy, almost made the guy crash as he suddenly leaned out while videotaping himself with cell phone and his arm stretched out while driving through traffic on 2nd road. 

These people are idiots IMO. As OneMoreFarang says, "Darwin at work" 

[kingstonkid]

6 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Darwin at work.

 

LoL you beat me to it ????

[ThaiWai]

6 hours ago, Tayaout said:

Gunshots and grenades hahahahhaha. 

[khunPer]

7 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Might want to make them a bit bigger and more numerous. Not one, but two tragic deaths in the same spot, for the same reason.

[manarak]

7 hours ago, toofarnorth said:

I agree but think of how many have likely died on the roads here while using new technologies instead of looking where they are going.

still not a technology issue.

[khunPer]

6 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

It's maybe time to install here some fences also

Fences? Are you aware what you are talking about, do you know the place?

 

6 hours ago, OlegGrigorev said:

... 800 meters? Never in Samui ... 80 meters maybe?

Yes, it's 80 meters.

[sunnyboy2018]

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

Every too often we hear about people losing their lives over a stupid acts of taking a selfies, as if life is not perilous enough as it is, now humanity has to deal with death as a results of new technologies...

Stupidity is timeless.

[sunnyboy2018]

20 minutes ago, manarak said:

still not a technology issue.

Perhaps we need ' A war on technology'!

[sunnyboy2018]

1 hour ago, CanterbrigianBangkoker said:

It's just a time-saving device mate. For lazy typers such as myself, especially if needing to be used repetitively.

 

For anyone who doesn't understand the meaning:

 

EMR - Electromagnentic radiation 

RF - Radio-wave frequency

 

Cheers.

OIC. TCTU. Tx.

[CG1 Blue]

6 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

It's maybe time to install here some fences also

I don't agree with that. People need to realise these are natural land features, not amusement parks with all the safety measures that come with them. I love Thailand's nature, and I'd like it to stay natural. 

Tragic story though, and condolences to the guy's family 

[ICELANDMAN]

7 hours ago, Estrada said:

"Thai Rath noted that there are warning signs in the area". In French and Spanish? 

Only Thai warning, death because not read Thais and think

[racket]

I have just learned that Darwin is the God of the Atheists. 

[ratcatcher]

7 hours ago, Estrada said:

"Thai Rath noted that there are warning signs in the area". In French and Spanish? 

No, but I'm sure there are signs in Mandarin & Hindi. In the western countries, the signs are usually written in English with a picture indicating the hazard. Apart from completely closing the falls, there will always be fools that go that extra few feet and pay with their lives. After many studies, they have concluded you can't fix stupid.

[JemJem]

7 hours ago, Tayaout said:

Needless to say that these are just the cases that are known by the media. The actual numbers must be quite higher.

[Matzzon]

2 hours ago, mal2018 said:

Common sense is the same in any language. ????

Spot on! I was explaining to the retarded part of the population, My name is Legion for we are many, and appearently growing in numbers for every single day.

[Cuba]

7 hours ago, Matzzon said:

It´s totally hillarious! They even have statistic over this stupidity. There is no help for mankind.

I'm kinda curious about the gunshot one.

[Why Me]

Facebook and Instagram like competition can be deadly. This French guy wanted to win real bad. But I know many obsessed 24/7 with improving their count. Maybe even making it to influencer status.

 

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[Matzzon]

26 minutes ago, Cuba said:

I'm kinda curious about the gunshot one.

Every heard about VR? I now means "when Virtual becomes Reality" ????

Statistics never lies. 

[moe666]

8 hours ago, ezzra said:

Every too often we hear about people losing their lives over a stupid acts of taking a selfies, as if life is not perilous enough as it is, now humanity has to deal with death as a results of new technologies...

Nah it is the same thing that has been killing them forever, stupidity and ignorance

[Pique Dard]

RIP

nevertheless, one can't help wondering if it's worth taking all those risks for just a selfie!

[ttrd]

7 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Might want to make them a bit bigger and more numerous. Not one, but two tragic deaths in the same spot, for the same reason.

RE - Might want to make them a bit bigger and more numerous

 

* Yes, and together with a fence to increase the threshold could make a difference ....