Current Events > Italians shocked by man's selfie after train accident in Piacenza

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44356361

When a Canadian woman was hit by a train and badly injured in northern Italy, rescue services quickly went to her aid on the tracks.
But as they treated the victim a young man captured the scene from the station platform in a selfie that has provoked widespread anger.
He was himself pictured by a news photographer who complained "we have completely lost a sense of ethics".
Police caught the young selfie-taker and forced him to delete his picture.

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Hoy shit wtf
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This reminds me of people that take selfies with people in critical condition at the hospital or at funerals. Like... What?
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This is why everyone hates milennials
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The outrage over selfies is worse than the actual selfies.

FFS it's just idiots taking pictures of themselves. Why do people get so up in arms about it? I don't do it because it's stupid and pointless, but if you're not harming anyone, do whatever the fuck you want

If it didnt hurt anything or break any law....
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Darklit_Minuet posted...

The outrage over selfies is worse than the actual selfies.

FFS it's just idiots taking pictures of themselves. Why do people get so up in arms about it? I don't do it because it's stupid and pointless, but if you're not harming anyone, do whatever the fuck you want

VandorLee posted...

If it didnt hurt anything or break any law....

NeonOctopus posted...

This is why everyone hates milennials

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Police caught the young selfie-taker and forced him to delete his picture.

The dude is a pos but this isn't okay. Italy is so fucked in their policing.
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NeonOctopus posted...

This is why everyone hates milennials

You say on a forum with mostly millennials.

Anarchy_Juiblex posted...

Police caught the young selfie-taker and forced him to delete his picture.

The dude is a pos but this isn't okay. Italy is so fucked in their policing.

This is relatively tame by European standards

what a fuckin piece of shit. not only for the insensitivity but what if the family of the victim found out about this because of his picture going viral before hearing an official word from the paramedics and officials? That shit isn't cool..
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Yeah have some of you people literally never heard of the word sensitivity? Your actions do have consequences, like taking a photo of a solemn event as a form of entertainment is in fact hurting the people who are closely involved with that person. Would you like it if your parents died and your friend takes a selfie next to their bodies while other people are taking a vow of silence? I mean just a picture to commemorate an event is fine, but a selfie is inherently entertainment because you put yourself as a topic of the photo.

Jesus, I wouldn't be surprised if these were the same folks defending Jake Paul or whatever other Paul that did that dumb shit, where the guy had a similar response of "I can't believe people were offended!"
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