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"PICTURED: Horrific injuries of selfie-taking US tourist, 23, who toppled into Mount Vesuvius as he tried to retrieve his phone when it fell into the volcano."

 Headline at The Daily Mail.

Philip Carroll, 23, of Maryland was hiking with family members on a forbidden trail up the notorious Mount Vesuvius/At the 4,000-foot summit he stopped to take a selfie to memorialize his achievement/Carroll lost his grip on his cellphone and it landed a few meters inside the lip of the crater....
'He tried to recover it, but slipped and slid a few meters into the crater. He managed to stop his fall, but at that point he was stuck.... He was very lucky. If he kept going, he would have plunged 300 meters into the crater.'...

There's something very grand about Vesuvius, and he didn't die, so we hear about it. But how many people a year die from falling while trying to "memorialize the achievement" of climbing to some high position by taking a selfie?

I think the typical selfie death fall involves turning your back to the edge of a precipice and then taking a step backward or leaning or posing and losing balance. But this was a case of dropping the phone and grabbing at it. Mega-stupid. But he doesn't even get a Darwin Award!

७४ टिप्पण्या:

Fredrick म्हणाले...

" how many people a year die from falling while trying to "memorialize the achievement" of climbing to some high position by taking a selfie?"

Too many; or not enough. It depends on your point of view.

wendybar म्हणाले...

A forbidden trail. There is a reason for that. He is lucky, but they should be charged with trespassing. Stupid people do stupid things.

Kevin म्हणाले...

But how many people a year die from falling while trying to "memorialize the achievement" of climbing to some high position by taking a selfie?I

Self-abortion.

Danno म्हणाले...

Maybe he only qualifies for a Darwin participation trophy?

Temujin म्हणाले...

When I read about this the other day, before I knew they were Americans, I knew they were Americans.

I'm so proud.

Iman म्हणाले...

His body's burnin' like a lava from a Mauna Loa
His phone’s crackin' like a Krakatoa
Krakatoa, east of Java, molten bodies, fiery lava

Michael म्हणाले...

"Horrific injuries"? Looks more like a bad sunburn. But, people gotta sell newspapers. Or page views or whatever.

Robert Cook म्हणाले...

Those injuries don't look very "horrific" to me.

Che Dolf म्हणाले...

Men who take selfies should be thrown into Vesuvius. This used to be commonly accepted folk wisdom.

Andrew म्हणाले...

There is something about these phones that mesmerize people into thinking that they provide a safety bubble. I see it all on the time on the road. People making a left-hand turn into oncoming traffic while they stare at their lap. That kind of thing.

Jefferson's Revenge म्हणाले...

When I see the words US tourist and selfie in a sentence I know I am about to be embarrassed..

Richard Aubrey म्हणाले...

"grabbing" at something which has just fallen is a reflex, not a thoughtful decision.

In Yellowstone some years back, saw posters about not taking selfies with buffalo.

RideSpaceMountain म्हणाले...

"Horrific injuries"

Minor injuries the extent of horrigic injuries.

gilbar म्हणाले...

forbidden trails are TIGHT!

Leland म्हणाले...

It apparently has been a thing for a long time. “Pride goeth before destruction, a haughty spirit before the fall” Proverbs 16:18

Bitter Clinger म्हणाले...

Clickbait headline. Those are far from horrific injuries. Most avid cyclists probably have better road rash photos than those.

Dave Begley म्हणाले...

Forbidden path. That's an invitation to an American.

Robert Marshall म्हणाले...

"Horrific injuries"!

The guy got road-rash injuries of the sort bikers get all the time when they take a fall on their bikes. More "big boo-boo" than horrific injuries.

I was expecting some real gore based on the headline, plus the fact this was happening at the summit of an active volcano. I was picturing Doctor Evil (not Doctor Jill) rubbing his hands together in glee. But, no.

Click bait!

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

If the worst injury you'd ever seen was a paper cut, you might think this guy's injuries are "horrific."

The Drill SGT म्हणाले...

"Carroll was arrested by the Carabinieri police, the guide told NBC, but he did not know what the charges were."

gross incompetence

Bemac म्हणाले...

"Horrific injuries"?

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

There was a video a few years ago on LiveLeak of some fool who decided to do chinups off the edge of a skyscraper (I think in China but am unsure). He did 10 or 20 or so quite impressively, but then was unable to leverage himself back upon the ledge. He hung there for a few minutes struggling before falling to his death.

Ignorance is Bliss म्हणाले...

Horrific Injuries from sliding a few meters? Based on the pictures, not really.

BUMBLE BEE म्हणाले...

Chlorinating the gene pool.

gilbar म्हणाले...

If you'd Just get.. a Little closer; this pic would be AWESOME!!!

gilbar म्हणाले...

i have to admit, this is The First Time i've heard;
about someone that dropped their phone into a volcano, and then fell in after, trying to get it out

Ice Nine म्हणाले...

I understand of course what a selfie is but the concept is foreign to me. I cannot imagine feeling compelled to take a selfie. There is personality weirdness implicit in it that I simply don't possess (I have enough other flaws...).

Static Ping म्हणाले...

There are known fatalities from taking selfies and trying to get famous through dangerous stunts. However, it probably pales in comparison to distracted driving accidents with people fiddling with their phones.

As for the Darwin Award, that is dependent on the list of horrific injuries. Darwin Awards include persons who removed themselves from the gene pool without requiring a funeral.

Ice Nine म्हणाले...

"Horrific" injuries??!

Whoever wrote that description of that guy's unremarkable "road rash" never fell off a bike at full speed or crashed on a skateboard when he was a kid.

J म्हणाले...

Back in 1979 I was in Sicily with the USN when Etna burped and some German tourists.Volcanoes are not safe.As they used to say "you pays youse,money you takes youse chances."

tim maguire म्हणाले...

Those "horrific injuries" look pretty superficial. I wouldn't even bother with medical attention. Just hit the drugstore for some band aids. And given the stupidity of the accident, I'd keep the whole thing to myself.

Nice म्हणाले...

what about all moments that go unmemorialized.

If you think about all the special moments that aren't captured, those are more meaningful.

Memory is more valuable than photo. --And safer.

madAsHell म्हणाले...

There is no Darwin Award for second place.

mikee म्हणाले...

I once saw a person being immortalized in pixels as she cavorted about a national park site. She climbed atop a sign for one set of pictures, and the urge to give her a little push was almost irresistible. Why is that?

WNYer म्हणाले...

Darwin Award “winners” usually means they are unable to reproduce (death, emasculation, etc) and impose their presumably deficient offspring on society

Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...

I wouldn't call those injuries "horrific".

Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...

If he'd had an arm or leg burned off in lava, or something similar, that would be horrific.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves म्हणाले...

Horrific?

eh - If he lost whole limbs in the lava - that might be horrific. He looks like a fat tourist who fell down. Bummer - but with risk comes consequence.

Not Sure म्हणाले...

The guy's got a nasty abrasion on his back, but it's a long way from being "horrific."

You don't have to spend much time reading the Daily Mail to wonder if it's got any copyeditors at all.

ccscientist म्हणाले...

In Chicago, a young lady dropped her cell into the river, onto the ice. She insisted on going down to get it. She broke through ice. 2 of her 3 friends came down to help and all 3 died. There are lots and lots of selfie-deaths. Lots more than shark deaths. Darwin.

FleetUSA म्हणाले...

Glad he was arrested.

Black Bellamy म्हणाले...

He didn't grab at the phone. It dropped to the ground and he went to get it like anything else, his glasses or keys or wallet. It's interesting that the word "selfie" does not appear in the body of the article, the actual reporting, but only in the editorially controlled headline, bullet summary and photo captions. No one really knows if it was a selfie or a 'regular' picture but everyone knows about clickbait. "Man slips on rocks!" is the story here because even the volcanic location is irrelevant. He didn't fall into lava, no noxious gasses, nothing exploded. Doesn't matter if the looming threat was there, a 300ft fall into a pile of honking geese would kill you just as well.

Chris-2-4 म्हणाले...

At least it had a Plural in the Headline!

Left Bank of the Charles म्हणाले...

That feeling, halfway through a hike.

Heartless Aztec म्हणाले...

The ride up to the hike in point in the Russian made military style people carrier driven by a non descript Eastern Euro driver was more frightening/thrillingp than final 3000' climb to the rim by foot.

Michael E. Lopez म्हणाले...

Not horrible. Routine cuts and abrasions.

#$%&@! sensationalist headlines.

When someone says "Horrible injuries" and "Mount Vesuvius" in the same sentence, I expect pictures of Anakin Skywalker from the end of Episode III, not "I had a kinda bad mountain biking accident."

Michael K म्हणाले...

His injuries are mild, not life threatening. He has more problems with his judgement than his back.

Clyde म्हणाले...

I have been to Pompeii, but my oddest Vesuvius story happened in January 2021. Amazon Music recommended the David Gilmour album ‘Live In Pompeii.’ It was the first concert with an audience at the Pompeii Amphitheater since Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. The album was 2-1/2 hours long and was still playing when I left work. I continued to listen as I drove home, stopping off at Culver’s for lunch along the way. It was as COVID days, so only the drive-through was open. My order number? 79! And it was 79 degrees outside as well (Florida). Very odd indeed!

WV.Hillbilly म्हणाले...

No gadget is worth your life or your health
Once while camping at Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, I dropped my big Swiss Army Knife down the latrine. I not only didn't dive in after it, I didn't even bother looking if I could see it.

policraticus म्हणाले...

#notthathorrific

A fall like that is newsworthy only if it occurs in one of three places: Vesuvius, the Grand Canyon, or Mauna Loa. A fall like that on the Appalachian Trail? Or, in Monument Valley? Or, down the stairs of the subway? No one would care.

Still, glad he's not dead.

Iman म्हणाले...

“Ow my ballz!”

Che Dolf म्हणाले...

Bob Boyd said: If the worst injury you'd ever seen was a paper cut, you might think this guy's injuries are "horrific."

I've been reading the Aubrey-Maturin series (Master & Commander, etc.), and characters talk about lopping off mangled limbs after battle like they were fixing a bad cut. I wonder how accurate the author is about the mentality both of the surgeons and patients in those circumstances. Would have taken a quart of laudanum to get me to face that ordeal with any kind of equanimity.

jim म्हणाले...

As Lopez says, not horrific. I do worse to myself at least once a year without the aid of a famous volcano, or the local vino.

Chris Lopes म्हणाले...

Sometimes the universe won't ask you to pay full price for your mistakes.

Narayanan म्हणाले...

has anyone in China yet created low-tech lanyard [retractable] for hi-tech phones?

Curious George म्हणाले...

"Robert Cook said...
Those injuries don't look very "horrific" to me."

OMG I agree with Cookie!

I'm sure the Daily Mail doesn't really think they were horrific. They do KNOW that the "horrific photos" will get more clicks than "minor injuries."

Narayanan म्हणाले...

WNYer said...
Darwin Award “winners” usually means they are unable to reproduce (death, emasculation, etc) and impose their presumably deficient offspring on society
==========
Planned Parenthood have been authorized / subsidized to award those for 50+ years

FullMoon म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Curious George म्हणाले...

Proof of previous comment is in the url: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11012501/PICTURED-Badly-bruised-American-tourist-toppled-Mt-Vesuvius-trying-retrieve-cell.html

Meade म्हणाले...

PICTURED: Horrific injuries of vain and pompous US POTUS 79, who toppled onto fiery Delaware pavement as he tried to pull his toe out of toeclip thingy when it clipped his toe too tightly

Iman म्हणाले...

Memories
Seared upon the slowness of my mind
Memories
Scars are on my backside like port wine

Smoke and ash come floating down and settle softly to the ground
Like barbecue briquettes around my feet

BUMBLE BEE म्हणाले...

WayBack Machine... There's only one soap can get that man clean... LAVA!

Big Mike म्हणाले...

has anyone in China yet created low-tech lanyard [retractable] for hi-tech phones?

@Narayanan, I was just thinking that the next iPhone release needs a strong loop to which a lanyard can be attached.

Saint Croix म्हणाले...

I guess nobody clicked on Not So Bad Scuffle Mark

You could try He Had a Fight With a Volcano and Lost

Or iPhone Injuries: Bloody But He's Okay

Or maybe Did the Holy Spirit Smite Darwin and Save This 23-Year-Old?

John henry म्हणाले...

My personal favorite volcano is Great Sitkin

John LGBTQBNY Henry

John Scott म्हणाले...

Wait to you see all the calamities captured on GoPros.

I have one myself. Go to Youtube and type in Whiteout and deployment.



dbp म्हणाले...

I don't understand the relevance of this part:

"Philip Carroll, 23, of Maryland was hiking with family members on a forbidden trail up the notorious Mount Vesuvius"

Once you climb up the regular trail to the rim of the crater, there is a trail all the way around the perimeter of the crater. The tourist likely went past the barriers between the summit loop and the crater. How he got to the summit loop is immaterial.

Zavier Onasses म्हणाले...

Selfies.

The universe is everlasting.
The reason the universe is everlasting is that it does not live for Self.
Therefore it can long endure.

Therefor the Sage puts himself last, and finds himself in the foremost place;
Regards his body as accidental, and his body is thereby preserved.
Is it not because he does not live for self that his self is realized?

Tao Te Ching, Chapt 7; trx by Lin Yutan

Marc in Eugene म्हणाले...

The Daily Wail is much of the time amusing: the balance between 'serious' articles and the exploitative ones illustrated by semi-naked photographs tilts just enough to keep one alert. The NYT should take a lesson.

FullMoon म्हणाले...

But this was a case of dropping the phone and grabbing at it. Mega-stupid.

Reflexive. Common to try and catch a dropped knife.

Dave64 म्हणाले...

Why oh why is it always a "horrific" whatever. When I see that word in a headline, I know its clickbait!

Marc in Eugene म्हणाले...

Go to Youtube and type in Whiteout and deployment.

Thanks! Fascinating and nerve-wracking and scary all at the same time. I went up in a hang-glider once. Once. These days, when the sign says, don't pass, I don't pass, Vesuvius or no Vesuvius.

Bill R म्हणाले...

it true that if an American actually jumps into the crater, it will cleave the Universe on to another path and then there will be a new Sopranos season?

If so, I say that would be worth it. RIP, whoever you are.

Bunkypotatohead म्हणाले...

"When I read about this the other day, before I knew they were Americans, I knew they were Americans."

I knew they were from Maryland.
He squandered his 15 minutes of fame.