rmstein@ieee.org
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 17:31:46 +0800
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/10/03/more-than-250-people-worldwide-have-died-taking-selfies-study-finds
``The selfie deaths have become a major public health problem,'' Agam
Bansal, the study's lead author, told The Washington Post.
Not as severe a problem health problem as distracted automobile drivers concurrently accessing mobile devices, but of a similar order of magnitude.
[Monty Solomon quoted this in *The Washington Post* article:
Researchers are calling for more `no selfie zones' near water bodies,
mountain peaks, and over tall buildings.
PGN]
See Dan Piraro's "Bizarro" comic on 04OCT2018 https://bizarro.com/daily-comic/