Selfie death

[quote]"Selfie-destructive"

😂

Jesus, that's horrific.

This is why I'm scared to death to hold a baby.

this woman wasn't so great at multi-tasking

I know what was on her iPod...

Clean-up in Housewares!

The selfie next to the tiny casket is going to get so many likes.

I'm awestruck by the number of people I see with headphones on, talking on the phone or looking at their devices while crossing busy streets. Just sheer stupidity.

“Happy Mother’s Day”?

This is a literal example of not paying attention and letting something important slip through the cracks.

Definitely not parents of the year.

Rock-a-bye baby, your parents do suck

Out comes the camera, you've run out of luck

We'll snap a cute picture, down at the mall

And down will go baby —

* splat *

I wish I hadn't watched that.

The article says “wefie.” Where does the F come from?

Also, the falling baby was alarming.

WTF, now we get to see dead babies on mother's day? No thanks, OP. Glad I didn't open it.

OP is a sick person for posting this. Get some help.

I prefer ones where the selfie taker hurts himself.

Did she throw the baby? I can’t tell how the baby fell out of her arms?

No dead baby shown, R15.

It looked like she was trting to hitch the baby higher up on her hip and didn't have the sense to realize her child would counterbalance as a result.

Horrifying to watch. I yelled out loud when it happened.

Thanks, R18. I'll take R20's word on it. OP still sucks.

R14. They are, rightly or wrongly, keeping the f from selfie. We in NJ call this a "weezie"

The child didn't even look real. It almost looked like a doll being flung over the side of the escalator. I can't believe someone would be that stupid to try to take a selfie while on an escalator. That poor child died because of stupidity.

On another note, I hate escalators and avoid them at all costs. I either take the stairs or an elevator if possible.

Not sure what happened tbh. It may just have been that she readjusted the child as he was shifting his legs and he pushed himself out of her arms at a catastrophic time.

Of course it’s possible that she was distracted by the father taking their picture, and riding an escalator is a time you should be focusing on safety rather than taking pictures. But bad shit accidentally happens all the time and maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to blame the parents.

Especially because ... their child just died?

I'm glad I didn't watch this.

What country is this?

R26 Doesn’t matter it can happen anywhere

Vid needed cartoon sounds to make it funnier. People are stooooooooooooooopid.

I don't think this is real. They were out of frame for a long time and came back with a doll that the wife just tosses over the railing. That did not look like a real kid. It was a doll.

India

The video clip does not show them taking a selfie on the escalator

[quote] They were out of frame for a long time and came back with a doll that the wife just tosses over the railing. That did not look like a real kid. It was a doll.

You think that during the 20 seconds or so that the family was out of the frame, the parents went somewhere and exchanged their kid for a doll dressed in identical clothing? You're a genius.

I walk along the sidewalk and hold my hand out to stop idiots from walking into me.

Hmm. Seems unlikely anyone would engineer this as a hoax. Until you remember that someone made a video of an eagle that attacked a baby...which went viral and then turned out to be CGI. People are twisted enough to fake it.

R30 Where did it say India ?

I know this is mean to say. But the way the mother kept pulling her veil over her eyes is something more backward, not very well educated women do in that part of the subcontinent. She pulled her veil lower over the face after the first selfie. Was holding the baby with the same arm she is supposed to hold on to the bannister. The baby was hefty.

When she climbed on to the escalator, her veil was low, she did not see the steps moving properly and slipped. She is pretty slender and lost her balance. Lost her center of gravity and baby fell to her left. Poor baby went flying. Hit the side rail, bounced off and fell through the crack between the up and down escalator. There was no attempt to take a selfie on the elevator. The parents then run down the up escalator which is natural panic. I’ve watched it a total of 18 times. It is not fake.

I’ve watched their body movements separately. Carrying a baby in the same arm which protects you is a bad idea. Obviously, when you then lose control of yourself, everything goes to shit. Mother was not used to escalators. Even if she had fallen to her right, both her and the baby would be badly injured.

Oprah speaks.

Although she may be referring to fraus like R27 who wants to control information and and everything else.

R33, I loved that video. Good edits throughout.

It is in Rajasthan, India, but is a very important safety video for all people in countries where escalators are relatively now. There is nothing gory in it but a good lesson on how to transport yourself on escalators.

I mean relatively new, not “relatively now”.

According to the linked article in the original post,

[quote]The incident on May 10 occurred at the CGR mall in Ganganagar, Rajasthan, India and was captured in its gruesome entirety by a CCTV camera.

The way the kid fell looked like a doll. Even the face looked like a doll. It did not move like a real person. And the mother seemed to toss the child for no reason.

I giggled a bit. Am I going to hell now?

The mother clearly lost her balance, retardo at r41; she didn't "toss the child for no reason." Upon viewing the video a second time, it looks like maybe the idiot father was indeed shoving his phone in his wife's face for another selfie, causing her to stumble backward and lose her grip on the baby. He's still holding the phone in his hand as they run down the escalator after the kid falls.

[quote] There is nothing gory in it but a good lesson on how to transport yourself on escalators.

It's not gory, but not everyone wants to see a baby plunge to its death.

R41 The kid was not a doll. The mother could not have tossed a kid as she’s losing her own balance. I just saw this video another 9 times. I don’t think you’re experienced in interpreting these videos, sorry to say.

R44 You don’t have to see anything you don’t want to. Do whatever you want with your own kid. I’m talking about a very specific population which needs safety education.

[quote]I mean relatively new, not “relatively now”.

It is relatively now too though — as in “like, relatively HAPPENING, relatively NOW, baby.”

[quote] [R44] You don’t have to see anything you don’t want to. Do whatever you want with your own kid.

I have no kids (thank god) and I wasn't talking about myself. ( I did choose to watch the video and wasn't overly disturbed by it). I'm just pointing out that it's a video of an actual baby falling to its actual death, not a fucking escalator safety video, and a lot of people more sensitive than I are not going to want to see that just so they can benefit from the video's imaginary safety message.

What "specific population" here on Datalounge—which is the only place anyone's going to read your weird, tone-deaf posts—needs help learning how to ride an escalator, anyway, ffs? Not to mention, all one can learn from that video is "hang on tight to your kid" and "don't let your husband stick a phone in your face for a selfie," which you can pretty much figure out just by reading the written description of what happened.

[quote]she didn't "toss the child for no reason."

There's always a reason to toss a child.

[quote]It's not gory, but not everyone wants to see a baby plunge to its death.

R44, are you NEW????????

R44 thinks she can dictate to us on DL.

I don't think she has any idea where she is.

LOL, r48.

R49, haha, no; I've probably been hanging around here on and off for longer than our younger DLers (if there IS anyone young on this board) have been alive. Let's face it, though, everyone here who's filled with delight at the thought of witnessing an infant's demise has already watched that video a hundred times and those such as r15 who have expressed their desire not to see it are not going to be persuaded by some weirdo on the spectrum claiming it has educational value.

....

I agree with r41 it looks fake. If you look that the way the "baby" moves it sort of just flops like a non living doll. It was also odd that they are established as taking slefies on the second level in the view of the camera then suddenly riding the escalator back up and they lose balance and drop the baby right in the view of the ccd camera. I call Fake.

Yeah I'm free, free fallin'...

[quote]I agree with [R41] it looks fake. If you look that the way the "baby" moves it sort of just flops like a non living doll. It was also odd that they are established as taking slefies on the second level in the view of the camera then suddenly riding the escalator back up and they lose balance and drop the baby right in the view of the ccd camera. I call Fake.

Where'd they get the fake from? The Indian Girl doll store on the third level of the mall?

Also they stayed in frame of the ccd camera - if my baby fell like that I would run the fuck down the escalator. You just see them in frame panicked and screaming...it takes an effort to stay in frame on an escalator moving up.

r55 it was preplanned and all staged - Again you see them on the second floor, taking selfies right in frame of the ccd - then you see them go off frame. The next time we see them they are coming up the escalator holding the child that was previously walking on the second level. You see her stumble, toss the "baby" and it goes cartwheeling off - bounces off the metal twice and down. I think they planned it to make a viral video.

And don’t do this either

[quote]it looks fake. If you look that the way the "baby" moves it sort of just flops like a non living doll. It was also odd that they are established as taking slefies on the second level in the view of the camera then suddenly riding the escalator back up and they lose balance and drop the baby right in the view of the ccd camera. I call Fake.

In a statement, police said: “This is a clear-cut case of an accident.

“The family of the deceased baby has refused to take any legal action as it was an accident.

r59 my tin hat is Gucci TYVM :P

That poor lady was carrying a large bag and a baby. She was apparently trying to balance both the bag and the baby in her arms when the husband caused her to slip by supposedly pushing the phone in her face. The father should have carried the large bag.

Both are idiots.

The Daily Mail video shows more of the husband and his camera. Lucky they had the CCTV. He's definitely getting in her face with his camera. Maybe there should be some netting or some other safety measure. They did run down the escalator after the baby fell.

R47 I'm a doctor and I work with many poor third world women. I want to teach you nothing and I also thank god that you have no children. Stay out of my face and my posts. You lack knowledge and know nothing about my work. Yes, a lot of these poor women don't know much about an escalator. They need education. You need to keep your mouth shut.

I don't want to hear from you again.

[quote] [R47] I'm a doctor and I work with many poor third world women. I want to teach you nothing and I also thank god that you have no children. Stay out of my face and my posts. You lack knowledge and know nothing about my work. Yes, a lot of these poor women don't know much about an escalator. They need education.

Sweetheart, who cares about your work and how do you imagine any of this twaddle is relevant on Datalounge? I'm fairly certain none of the "poor third world women" you so nobly serve hang out here or stand to benefit from your bizarro posts informing them that all they need to know about riding those newfangled moving staircases they can learn by watching a video of a selfie-obsessed moron causing his wife to drop their baby to its death?

[quote] You need to keep your mouth shut. I don't want to hear from you again.

Well, Dr. Mary Fairy, I guess you'd best block me, then, since I don't now and don't anticipate ever giving a fat rat's ass what some rando DLer thinks I need to do or say. .

Infants--always a handful!

Particularly the chubby ones.

What’s sad is the idiot husband is grooming his hair while his woman schleps that baby, her damn veil, and that bag full of heavy baby shit. She probably cannot even read. Of course, as usual. I want to kick that idiot husband all over town. Him and fucking sunglasses at night. GRRRR!!!

What the fuck was wrong with that baby that it didn't latch on to something and hang on for dear life until someone could grab it?

thanks Patsy, I needed a laugh badly, R67

This is india....don't parents kill female children on purpose?

I was also concerned about a toddler walking with his mother. First he looked like his feet was going to get caught in something connected to the escalator. Then he walked over it again and thank God nothing happened...

R70 Don’t they fetch dowries ?

Yes, they do and then get incinerated if it's not a good enough dowry, Not just India, Pakistan too. We would like to think it's getting better but sadly, no.

R70 Wait, no, actually you have to GIVE a dowry to the grooms' family if you have a girl child. I've seen people wipe out their familys' belongings for a dowry so they could marry off their daughters..

I warned my mother at age 13 that I wasn't marrying anyone if he wanted a dowry. My mother said nobody wanted me for a daughter-in-law anyway, because I was mean and would probably burn my in-laws and their house down if they pissed me off. She was right, no one sent me a "proposal"... Very sad...I was quite pretty too...

People kill female children in many countries. But it's cupcake time for me and I think you should look up the consequences of killing female children. I've never seen it but I guess you can tell I'm from a different demographic, yes?

Hint: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China and other places too. I don't keep tabs on that stuff.

R70 Have you never met a female Indian person? Really?

The mother loses her balance because she steps wrong(ly?) onto the escalator. She's not properly centered on a step, her heels are over a "crack" and so she's off-balance as the escalator goes up and she loses half her support.

And yes, her hubby is a piece of shit for making her carry both the kid and the heavy bag.

Those of you thinking the child is a doll are fucking retards, seriously.

It didn't react because it's a stupid fucking baby, they don't know how to react to things like falling FFS!

Hell, if even an adult fell like that, they probably wouldn't be able to react in time, never mind a stupid baby that's barely aware of anything.

Apparently it has happened before

Indians are hopeless.

Obsessed with their phones. Wearing clothes that constantly need re-adjustment (think of the Indian women constantly dossing that stupid useless bit of fabric over their shoulders). Constantly taking pictures of themselves looking 'wonderful'. Never really aware of their surroundings.

OP, you are a sick fuck.

R80 Death is part of life my dear, just accept it.

R58 I wanna suck your dick. That made me laugh so hard. MJ was fucking nuts.

Dunno if it was staged, but they weren't taking a selfie when the kid went over. The husband didn't jostle or push the mom when the kid went over. And the mom did not stumble or lose her balance in any visible way when the kid went over.

R81, the OP (you?) is a sick fuck my dear, just accept it.

R83, yes she did stumble. I watched it again a few times. After she gets on the escalator, she leans back as though she may not have gotten proper footing. It appears that the man is trying to help her get her balance by pulling her forward onto the step, which throws her off and causes her to lose her grip on the baby.

R84 More will come out of the wombs tomorrow, get a grip honey

Did they smell of curry?

R87, when do they not?

R80 is just too, too precious.

Honey, if you can't handle this video that's not even remotely graphic, then how do you deal with all the terrible things that happen in real life? Do you just curl up in a ball in your safe space and suck your thumb?

R89 lol

I want to see the footage from the first floor.

You know,

where it LANDED.

I am surprise this video was even released. It went viral, must be a horrific reminder for the mum.

'Why didn't someone on the first floor catch it?

Someone could have but smacked it away instead.

R44 wants to be the last word on this. I’m ff ing her fat troll lesbian ass.

Find something else to do. We like talking about stuff on DL. You have zero authority.

[quote]Well, Dr. Mary Fairy, I guess you'd best block me, then, since I don't now and don't anticipate ever giving a fat rat's ass what some rando DLer thinks I need to do or say. .

Evidently you do, R65. You responded.

Another selfie death

Some people are truly too stupid to live. Or procreate.

[quote] [R44] wants to be the last word on this. I’m ff ing her fat troll lesbian ass. Find something else to do. We like talking about stuff on DL. You have zero authority.

Get a grip, little triggered one. Of course I have no authority here, which makes me wonder why on earth you are all distraught about my posts. Pro tip: try taking DL a mite less seriously.

I've stop/started through it in teensy bits a number of times now, and there is something very weird about the way that kid goes backward and over. Only way I can see that as an authentic accident is, if the mother put both her hands on something, in front of herself out of our sight line, like, taking the phone from the father and putting both her hands on it. So the kid is then teetering in/on the crook of the mother's elbow, totally unsecured. In which case the mother is grossly reckless along with the father being a worthless fleabag.

Look at the Daily Mail video. There’s something going on which distracts the mother who is already slipping. It looked like the mother threw the kid but I’m sure she didn’t.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

Cue r38 to start nattering about how women in China have no experience with elevators and r102's video is really very educational.

R102 Well your video certainly seems to suggest that the peasant farm-women of China have no experience with elevators.

Your video would be really educational for them.

BTW The indigenous people of Africa and Australia believe that taking a photograph of someone steals their soul.

Another baby died in India

My mom dropped me off a few escalators and I am totally fine!

The child's name was Beyoncé...

r107 lies the child's name was Kurt Wheel..

Baby fat can cushion the fall

I can't see R102's video, is it this one?

She broke her leg. That can be fixed. Lying with your leg stuck in the doors without raising holy hell is not a good thing.

[quote] Lying with your leg stuck in the doors without raising holy hell is not a good thing.

Exactly! She was just lying there like a spoiled brat expecting to be picked up! Pull your leg out of the door, you dumb bitch!

Did you see her husband try to pull her out? LoL Poor guy. This is why my mother never took elevators.

[quote]Another baby died in India

Jesus, are Indian babies super fucking SLIPPERY or something? It's a wonder that country is even experiencing a population explosion if women are dropping their children down elevator shafts and into canyons every five seconds.

They wear unwieldy clothes and shoes.. I mean the mothers. I can’t walk a straight line in heels much less carry a baby wearing numerous veils, slippery flip flops and trusting these damn elevators and escalators. I particularly despise the REALLY tall ones. Those fuckers give you vertigo.

Snake selfie

Mumbai Man Drowns Trying To Save A Girl Who Fell Off A Cliff Into The Sea While Taking Selfies

No selfie zones in Mumbai

Bombay people are very “ziddi”. You think this will work?

Ziddi=stubborn

I know I shouldn't be laughing. It's bad of me.

What we need are pictures of freshly drowned bodies. The romance in suicide needs to be wiped out. There is too high a rate of young girls’ suicide in India. I don’t think the permanence of death has made inroads into their psyche.

R117 That was a young Hindu kid who drowned saving two stupid Muslim girls who did not “notice the high tide”. One other girl drowned. The mind boggles at the stupidity.

R121 You are bad! But did you find the confused looking cobra funny?

4 yr. old in Malaysia who was wearing crocs.

R125 Page not found

R125 Foot not found

try this

R125 Having major problems with links. Just put in " 4yr old escalator accident kuala lumpur" into google images or news. I can't believe how many accidents i just saw on escalators. Scary.

[quote]4 yr. old in Malaysia who was wearing crocs.

[quote]R125 Foot not found

Can I have it?

It's a very small foot.

The kid is doing very well by the way. Croc shoes reputation...Not.

Apparently, Crocs get stuck in escalators a lot. They’re cheap so lots of kids wear them. And Indian and Pakistani and Malaysian ladies and their damned outfits, flowing this way and that with a kid in there somewhere! And it’s cheap polyester cloth, so it’s easy to lose your grip on your kid. Horrible to have modernity forced on you without the requisite mandatory safety requirements.

I got my running shoe caught in an escalator once.

In my early teens, I used to only lift the toes of my shoes up as the escalator reached the top, so that I was gently deposited onto the floor instead of having to actually step off.

One day, the foam padding on the outside edge of one shoe was briefly caught in the escalator's teeth. I was only caught for perhaps a second, but it was enough to "scare me straight" and I have never since fucked around on an escalator. Machinery ain't a toy, yo.

[quote]Apparently, Crocs get stuck in escalators a lot. They’re cheap so lots of kids wear them.

They also fit very loosely, making it more likely that a clumsy kid won't have perfect control or awareness of their feets.

Also, kids are fucking stupid.

They really are stupid. Just hope the little chubette who fell didn’t feel much pain.

[quote]There is too high a rate of young girls’ suicide in India. I don’t think the permanence of death has made inroads into their psyche.

If you are told there will be plenty of other lives for you after this one, you probably DON'T have any inkling of death being permanent.

Yes, that kind of thinking is a problem. The girls I saw dead had “argument with mother this morning”, “boyfriend didn’t text her back , she thinks he likes another girl”, that type of thing. Parents and family situation was no disaster. They weren’t poor. But Hindus are not supposed to commit suicide. And you could come back as a rock or some animal even if you believe in resurrection.

Hanging has been romanticized for some reason. And all the dead girls were pretty! I don’t get it.

I don’t see anything. What was it?

A video of a baby falling in India. One accident after another. There was no gore. Just the baby falling due to multiple reasons. But some of DLs’ more sensitive, older lez population got traumatized and abused the OP and others. And then the video disappeared.

It’s available on the DailyMail under, “selfie death leading to baby falling in India”.

[quote]A video of a baby falling in India. One accident after another. There was no gore. Just the baby falling due to multiple reasons. But some of DLs’ more sensitive, older lez population got traumatized and abused the OP and others. And then the video disappeared.

The link to the video and story is in the OP, just as it's always been. BTW, where did anyone ABUSE the OP, Mary? Speaking of the overly sensitive ....

"drown to death"

LOL is there any other way to drown?

"Oops!"

I saw more Indian girl suicides on that gore website I mentioned but there were a lot of fakes. Even worse, the people who have contributed to a lot of the 176 pages of dead Indian girls were making comments which sounded like something a doctor would say. (Each page has about 5-10 pictures of supposed suicides). I asked this person if she was a doctor. No answer yet. I also pointed out that hanging and drowning don’t make girls look pretty. Got a downvote immediately.

I also saw some amazingly beautiful surgery from UC Trauma Center to save a kids’ hand who had been bitten by some kind of horrible rattlesnake. I would love to put those here if Muriel is ok with it.

R142 English as spoken or written in India/Pakistan is a very different animal than what you’ll see here. I find it funny and even funnier when I hear it.

OP_ Are you still here?

R146 you call?

*splat*