WOMAN TAKES MOST SELFISH SELFIE EVER

December 8, 2013 by staff

WOMAN TAKES MOST SELFISH SELFIE EVER, “Selfie” might be the Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year, but one woman’s self portrait is teaching us all a lesson in selfie etiquette.

Folks, don’t take a photo of yourself in front of a tragedy.

On Tuesday morning, a woman, identified only as a tourist, snapped a photo of herself in front of the Brooklyn Bridge. In the background of the photo, a suicidal man threatened to leap into the East River below.

While the man was eventually talked down from the ledge and taken to the hospital for evaluation, the woman’s poor photography decision lives on: It landed her on the cover of the New York Post.

“America’s selfie obsession reached a new low on Tuesday when a woman snapped a cellphone self-portrait that also captured a suicidal man on the Brooklyn Bridge,” the New York Post reports.

“With scores of onlookers watching the dramatic 10 a.m. rescue by cops, the crass camerawoman turned her back to the scene, angled her phone toward the bridge and snapped a shot. The scarf-clad blonde even cracked a thin smile.”