Seven friends drown after their boat capsized when they huddled in one corner to take a selfie...

[TheWorldNewsOrg]

Seven friends drown after their boat capsized when they huddled in one corner to take a selfie https://t.co/KYqNWwKRpY http://pic.twitter.com/1qgGJtkqJY

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) July 10, 2017

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[Melinda Mills]

Cameras come before common sense and safety these days. Sorry to hear though. Life is very cheap these days.

 

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

Life has ALWAYS been cheap ...

Sounds like new contestants for the 2017 "Darwin Awards" if they were over the age of 16.

[The Librarian]

Were none of them able to swim even for a few minutes? I can understand dying by being pulled under by a huge ship sinking...but just falling off a boat? I've jumped off of more boats than I can think of for the sheer fun of swimming.

[JW Insider]

10 hours ago, The Librarian said:

can understand dying by being pulled under by a huge ship sinking...but just falling off a boat?

The great tragedy of 'group' drowning deaths is that good swimmers often get tired out and pulled down by trying to save the ones who cannot swim. Survivors are often haunted by the fact that the only reason they survived is that they decided to swim away and not help their drowning friends.

[TrueTomHarley]

It reminds me of '3 guys on a boat' jokes, like when the President, the Pope, and Mayor Daly (substitute your favorite crook to update it) were stranded on a boat, sinking because there was only capacity for two. The first two successfully pleaded how they were too important to jump overboard, and Mayor Daly started to sweat. But he rebounded.

"Gentlemen, gentlemen, let's settle this the democratic way. Let's take a vote," he proposed. So they did, and Mayor Daly won, 5 to 2.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

He must have been a Democrat, who can even vote after they have died ... and several times.

[James Thomas Rook Jr.]

Somehow I am having flashbacks to Milton Berl and Jack Leonard in pre-hippie times ....