Posted on 07/06/2018 4:14:55 AM PDT by markomalley
Three members of a YouTube travel blogging collective have died after falling over a waterfall in Canada.
Ryker Gamble, Alexey Lyakh and Megan Scraper were part of High On Life, who post videos of their travel adventures.
The group said: "They were three of the warmest, kindest and most driven and outgoing people you could ever meet."
Police said the trio were swimming at the top of Shannon Falls in British Columbia on Tuesday when they "slipped and fell into a pool 30m (98ft) below".
Other members of the group, who have 1.1 million followers on Instagram and more than 500,000 YouTube subscribers, named the three on their memorial fund page and in a tribute video.
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>>1.1 million followers on Instagram and more than 500,000 YouTube subscribers, named the three on their memorial fund page
have the bodies been positively identified?
a million followers (CNN is jelly) and a go-fund-me tribute fund.
profit
I wonder if social media has caused an absolute increase in the number of people who die doing stupid stuff, or whether we just know about more of them.
Both are correct.
Youtube is drawing people to do more stupid things, in the interest of attention.
Social media publizes the stupidity, and we notice this more often now (I would guess I see it twice a week now on average...some guy or gal dead).
I noticed a couple of days ago....some rural region in India....went into a murder episode because of fake news getting out by WhatsApp message. Several folks dead because of public messages made, and the authorities weren’t quick enough to prevent them.
Some people have too much time on their hands.
At least they died doing what they loved ...
At least they died doing what they loved ...
Wow. But on the other hand, fights (sometimes fatal) start here because someone goes on Facebook and posts, "ShaKeisha looked at my boyfriend!"
Front page of the WSJ yesterday showed a Chinese business executive who fell off a cliff in France, having climbed over the safety fence (hold muh beer and watch this) to get a photo.
At least they dies without risking the lives of rescuers or first responders.
Is there video?
“Some people have too much time on their hands.”
And money.
“Ryker Gamble, Alexey Lyakh and Megan Scraper”
Name theory of assholery at work.
“They were three of the warmest, kindest and most driven and outgoing people you could ever meet.”
Were.
And how did 3 such young people finance their escapades? Mom and Dad? Now that they’ve graduated college with their degrees in 14th Century French Art, womens studies?
Bumpy and very, very hard.
“Police said the trio were swimming at the top of Shannon Falls in British Columbia on Tuesday when they “slipped and fell into a pool 30m (98ft) below”.
Too bad they didn’t read the email that explained how the current on top of the falls carries you over the falls to the pool below. Physics 101.
“At least they dies without risking the lives of rescuers or first responders.”
Yeah, but whoever retrieved the corpses will have PTSD.
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