Russian Government PSA: 'Take a Selfie and You Could Die.'

Can we try this approach? Possibly in Los Angeles?

And you thought your local amusement park banning selfie sticks was an infringement of your vainglorious rights to capture your life in action for Facebook.

Check out Russia’s Interior Ministry latest PSA campaign that launched yesterday. Evidently, taking a selfie is a matter of life or death in Moscow.

A series of accidents resulting from dolts taking selfies on the edges of skyscrapers, the pinnacles of Russian Orthodox churches and the banks of the Bering Strait caused the heightened awareness of “Check Me Out.”

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