Dozens of onlookers watched in horror as a suicidal man stood on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City Tuesday morning.
But not one woman. She decided to take the opportunity for a photo op.
The “Selfie” obsession, or the practice of people snapping photos of themselves for social media, reached an all time low when The New York Post caught this particular blonde woman in a scarf turn her back to the scene, crack a smile and take the photo as police officers struggled to rescue the suicidal man of the bridge.
The Post tried to catch up with her afterward, but she declined.
“I’d rather not,” she said when asked for her name, The Post reported.
Social media has made selfies so popular that it was even named word of the year for 2013 by the Oxford Dictionary.
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A particularly disturbing trend that has emerged is “funeral selfies,” where people take photos of themselves crying at funerals.
• Jessica Chasmar can be reached at jchasmar@washingtontimes.com.
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