{"id":29183,"date":"2015-09-24T00:26:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T00:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/selfie-accidents-have-killed-more-people-than-sharks-this-year\/"},"modified":"2015-09-24T00:26:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T00:26:18","slug":"selfie-accidents-have-killed-more-people-than-sharks-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/city\/hawaii\/selfie-accidents-have-killed-more-people-than-sharks-this-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Selfie Accidents Have Killed More People Than Sharks This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selfie-related accidents have killed some-more people worldwide this year than shark attacks have, and they\u2019ve killed during slightest twice as many if we embody usually \u201cunprovoked,\u201d reliable shark attacks.<\/p>\n

Conde Nast Traveler reported on Sept. 16<\/a>tourist who fell down a stairs during a Taj Mahal<\/a>created an infographic<\/a><\/p>\n

Conde Nast Traveler got a total from a Shark Attack Survivors news archives<\/a>International Shark Attack File during a Florida Museum of Natural History<\/a><\/p>\n

Burgess pronounced that usually six, rather than eight, deadly shark attacks should be counted in a tally, given in one of a incidents it’s not transparent if a shark might have been “provoked,” and a other might not have even been a shark attack.<\/p>\n

Burgess classifies one of a attacks in a SAS news repository as\u00a0<\/span>carrying a bag of scallops<\/a>who left during sea<\/a><\/p>\n

Though the\u00a0Conde Nast Traveler and Mashable articles don’t fact a 12 selfie-related deaths, they are\u00a0listed on Wikpedia<\/a><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong>fell to her death<\/a><\/p>\n

2, 3.<\/strong>killed while holding a selfie<\/a><\/p>\n

4,5,6.<\/strong>killed by an approaching train<\/a><\/p>\n

7.<\/strong>was electrocuted<\/a><\/p>\n

8.<\/strong>was also electrocuted<\/a><\/p>\n

9.<\/strong>shot herself in a head<\/a><\/p>\n

10.<\/strong>died descending from a bridge<\/a><\/p>\n

11.<\/strong>fatally shot himself<\/a><\/p>\n

12.<\/strong>died descending down a stairs<\/a><\/p>\n

There is, however, some justification that there might be other selfie-related deaths that we don’t know about given they didn’t make general headlines. Yelena Alexeyeva, an help to a Russian interior minister, told a Agency France-Presse in July<\/a><\/p>\n

According to Burgess, a media\u2019s concentration on shark attacks gives a open a mangled thought of how dangerous they unequivocally are, given each time a shark conflict happens, it\u2019s a vital news story — distinct fatalities ensuing from some-more common tragedies, such as automobile accidents.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see it as a problem for a bargain of multitude and bargain sharks and a healthy environment,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Burgess remarkable that either shark attacks have killed 6 or 8 people this year, or whatever a tough numbers on selfie-related deaths might be, a genuine story is that sharks should be most some-more disturbed about humans than a other approach around.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact of a matter is we\u2019re murdering between 30 and 70 million sharks a year in fisheries,\u201d Burgess said. \u201cThe genuine invader in this attribute isn\u2019t a shark, it\u2019s a human.\u201d<\/p>\n

Contact a author of this essay during Hilary.Hanson@huffingtonpost.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Also on HuffPost:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Selfie-related accidents have killed some-more people worldwide this year than shark attacks have, and they\u2019ve killed during slightest twice as many if we embody usually \u201cunprovoked,\u201d reliable shark attacks. Conde Nast Traveler reported on Sept. 16tourist who fell down a stairs during a Taj Mahalcreated an infographic Conde Nast Traveler got a total from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-29183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","tag-hawaii-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}