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Grieving moms point to social media for sons' BART ‘surfing’ deaths (sfstandard.com)

submitted 10 months ago by robocall to c/bayarea

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Two teenagers died after falling from trains in San Francisco in the past two weeks. Now, their grieving mothers are sounding the alarm about a dangerous trend of young people climbing onto the top of BART trains and “surfing” them, and posting stunt videos on social media.

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[–] FinishingDutch 22 points 10 months ago

While I agree that things like that shouldn’t be on social media, I feel like this is definitely more of a personality/upbringing issue.

99 percent of people who see videos like that immediately understand that’s a very foolish thing to do. Only the stupidly dumb would consider actually doing that.

[–] robocall 7 points 10 months ago

if this is actually the young man's instagram, it appears he enjoyed risky thrill chasing. https://www.instagram.com/explodingcans1

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Darwinian selection is thing, for a reason.

[–] cabron_offsets 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Social media is a fucking cancer, but morons are morons and have to deal with the consequences of being morons. So, too, for their parents (sadly).