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Operation Lifesaver Releases New Video to Promote Track Safety

By Cybersafety, Cybertraps for the Young, eStupidity, Health Issues, Photographs & Videos, , ,

Sadly, five people have died during 2015 while taking photos or selfies on active railroad tracks. Those deaths are a disturbing sliver of a growing phenomenon known as “death by selfie.” This has become a large enough issue to merit its own Wikipedia page; the debate over whether more people have died in 2015 from…

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Operation Lifesaver Offers Free Webinar on Risks of Train Track Photography

By Cybertraps for the Young, eStupidity, P2P Pressure, Parenting, Photographs & Videos, Social Media, Trespass, , ,

In mid-September, a young couple in Boyds, MD spent part of a sunny fall afternoon posing for photos. Like dozens of other teens and even some professional photographers, they decide to use the railroad tracks running through town as an attractive backdrop. While 16-year-old Natalie Crim and her twin sister Sarah flipped through the photos…

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