While
Selfies are ridiculed, there is no denial of the fact that people are enamoured
to take selfies. 'Don't take selfies with a gun or while standing in front of a
lion':- Russia issued guidelines for
people after dozens die taking self-portraits this year alone. Though it has rapidly become the favourite
pastime of people all over the world, following a spate of deaths Russia has
issued a hilarious set of guidelines for taking safer selfies.
Among the advice is
not taking a self portrait with a gun or posing alone in front of a lion.In its
new leaflet, video and web campaign Russia's interior ministry uses road sign
style-images to warn that taking 'a cool selfie could cost you your life.' The
gun warning comes after 21-year-old shot herself posing with a pistol; this
road sign style-image warns of the dangers of the railway. Another, sign warns of the danger of posing
in front of cars. 'A selfie on the railway tracks is a bad idea if you value
your life,' the leaflet warns ~ the campaign push comes after a string of high
hazard poses has caused around 100 people to end up in hospital and a
succession of deaths already this year.
In January, two
young men blew themselves up in the Urals while taking a selfie holding a hand
grenade with the pin pulled out. The cell phone with the selfie survived as a
record.' A high number of 'likes' could lead him on a journey to death,' warns
aid to interior minister !!!
The
Russian leaftlet obviously had no impact miles away on a group of Pamplona bull
runners all holding their phones to take a picture get squashed by raging
animal - revellers laid down and encouraged the rampaging beast to run over
their backs as it entered the ring….. each of them
carried a camera phone as the desperately tried to take photographs of the
massive bull. The event is increasingly
popular with tourists who are happy to risk their lives to get the ultimate
holiday snap - an Australian man was gored twice by a
fighting bull, with two others suffering minor injuries.
Despite
the city's bull running rituals being centuries old, there was a very modern
twist to proceedings this year with camera phones replacing red rags as the
item most likely to be waved in the face of a rampaging bull. With the event
increasingly popular with tourists, many in attendance are more than willing to
risk their lives to capture the ultimate holiday snap. In one photo, a massive bull is seen
trampling over the participants backs as it bursts into the bullring in
Pamplona…. Another bull leapt out of the backstage area, landing on the backs
of one particularity reckless group of festival goers
The last reported
death at Pamplona was in 2009 when a 27-year-old was gored in the neck by a bull
called Capuchino – now the nineday fiesta which
features 24 hour partying saw racing bulls, their guiding steers, professional
matadors and unprofessional revellers risking their lives to take that ultimate
selfie. It is not the bull that is mad
!!!
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
16th July 2015.
