Man Takes Selfie With A Woman Who'd Just Been Hit By A Train

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A man has decided that taking a selfie with a woman who had just been hit by a train was an appropriate thing to do. That is instead of, you know, trying to help in any way possible or even just respectfully looking away.

The woman was hit by a passing train in Italy and lost her leg in the accident.

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In a photo posted to Facebook by journalist Giorgio Lambri, the woman is seen lying between the two train tracks. She's being attended to by medics. And there, on the platform, is the dickhead taking a selfie with her in the background.

Lambri shared the image with the caption, 'We have completely lost the sense of ethics'.

The selfie-taker was dressed all in white, and appears to be holding up two fingers in a victory sign.

WHAT EXACTLY IS THE VICTORY HERE, MATE?!

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The incident took place in Piacenza, which is near Milan in Italy. The victim is reported to be Canadian.

People are obviously reacting with anger to the photograph, and to the man who took the selfie.

One person has accurately described it as "The decline of Western civilisation" and many are labelling it the most inappropriate selfie that's ever been taken.

Local media in the area has reported that the man was arrested and questioned, and forced to remove the picture of the accident from his phone.

It's reported that the woman fell into the path of a moving train on 26 May. Some say she fell from the train itself, when doors opened on the wrong side - others say she slipped from the platform while running to catch a train.

Apparently, she was taken straight to hospital where she needed to have her leg amputated.

Radio host Nicola Savino told listeners the human race was "galloping towards extinction".

Lambri wrote about his experience for Piacenza newspaper Liberta under the headline: "The barbarism you don't expect: the 'selfie' in front of a tragedy."

There are a series of inappropriate selfies floating around on the internet.

People seem to whip out their selfie sticks when they're at sites of historical atrocities - like Auschwitz, or the Holocaust Memorial site in Berlin, or on the scene of recent terrorist attacks.

Can we please get our morals together?

Topics: Viral, accident, World News, Angry, Trains, Twitter

Daisy Jackson

Daisy Jackson is a freelance writer, who has previously worked at Shortlist Media and Trinity Mirror. She has written about the Manchester terror attacks and appeared on BBC Five live to discuss the aftermath, as well as interviewing an orthopaedic surgeon in Syria.