Authorities say 21-year-old Richard Jacobson had been camping with a friend on top of Flat Iron Summit in Lost Dutchman State Park when he went to the edge to take a picture and slipped.
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#Arizona #Hiker #FlatIron
Somebody pushed him
Love me some Darwinism!
Maybe he didn’t wanna hike back down 🤔
Rip
Clever kids now day…..
😂 lol dude fell
Rip him but I will invest in a drone plus you get better ventage point
I feel sad for his friend because the detectives are going to wonder if his friend pushed him. Maybe another witness saw it happen.
Are you sure that he didn’t push him?
Ppl not realizing that there is lot of risk of something falling apart while standing on the edges are too naive. thousands of people walk around these edges and they get weaker. WHy is this not so obvious to people?
That’s way to high up to be messing around trying to take a picture. Just enjoy the moment or wait until you are safe before taking a picture
He was 21 years of age common sense does not exist in alot of kids. Big cliff yeah lets get a picture when i could fall to my death….. Sad
Scary rip
It happens too often..you can’t take back an accident
Take dumb risks, pay the ultimate price.
IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK AT AND VERY DANGEROUS…..IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL….I TOOK A PICTURE FROM MY CAR….
Selfie craze is getting ridiculous.
Unfortunately this has happened several times in the last few months around the world.
Selfies to die for? Another Darwin award
Good for them, going the way they live.
Sad but a picture 🖼️ ain’t worth dying for…..
Blame it on Instagram, Facebook etc!
Must be a good selfie
ima do this to myself so everyone has to live their lives without me forever
im not important to this world
Taking pictures on the edge of a 700 ft cliff isn’t reckless? I’m sure that picture would have gotten him a few likes on Facebook. RIP
Common sense ain’t so common
I hope the buddies didn’t have a fight recently. Hiking seems to be the way to get rid of someone without police suspicion… chalk it up to they had an accident and fell.
Be smart
People do too much at these hiking trails just for pictures in Phoenix. I see them all the time. RIP and my condolences to his family.
I want to feel bad for the guy but how dumb is he really? Natural selection at work folks.
I’ve been in those mountains. Rip
no selfie stick? no drone? shameless
Did hear him , wright 12:30 in the morning , for give me , been up ,too many hours
12:45am????!!!
“Happened in the “Superstition Wilderness”, while they are beautiful, they can be very dangerous” s(especially when it’s pitch black!)
Why r they awake, why night pics, was he even able to see the edge?
Erie, spooky story.
RIP young camper🙏🙏🙏
It’s not the fall that killed him,was that sudden stop
Sad
alcohol.
FANTASTIC mountains to see
It’s funny and I am tired pretending it’s not. Lets natural selection run it’s course
Is the statement that they got the 911 call at 12:45 IN THE MORNING accurate? 12:45 AM? 🤨
Just some quick applied philosophy of language: the cliffs aren’t “dangerous to hikers.” Some (a subset) of hikers on the cliffs pose a danger to themselves. Which subset? The ones who stand on the edge of the rock and try to take a picture. I like how the news story tries to use language to twist the reality of what happened. As if the cliff were some kind of grizzly bear that appeared out of nowhere: it’s been in the same position for millions of years. Hard to claim that something that has been standing still for millions of years poses a danger to anything.
i dont know….looks like the instagram photo was to die for…
I don’t feel sorry for him,you should respect nature.I guess this selfie was worth it.
Alternative title: Darwinism in action
🤣🤣🤣 Omg how can these people be so stupid? No Sympathy.
What a nice way to die doing what you like the most YOLO bruh RIP
Isn’t the first time this happened.
Can’t fix stupid! No more needs to be said!
Goddam social media man smh 🤦🏾♂️. Puts pressure on folks to try and 🔝 each other. You cannot pay for feeling 🖼.
Whatever I read in the comments section, truth is: you’re thinking the same thing that I am thinking.
Haha
Back a little further. Little further. Almost. Uh, that’s good.
I was just watching a video on unsolved mystery the girl said she just got a new camera this was in the 1970s and slip and fall in the park in Arizona and stop on her way down but couldn’t see the top
and some body at home was praying for her at home .
This guy gets my vote for the 2022 darwin awards
Ow
Only fittest and the intelligent will Going to survive
– Charles Darwin 🧙♂️
These young kids keep their eyes on their phones at all times.
LoL
I wonder what he was thinking as he was falling to his death.
Was he vaccinated ?
I bet he was a nbc fan
Loves CNN.
Jacob was piping the other dude girl and he got 😠
Oh man, that ledge. Hey we’re really high up here ima take a closer look
For goodness sake! What a senseless death! All because of a photo!!!
Rip 💗💕💞💞 my heart hurts for you and your family!
Deepest sympathies to this young man’s family and loved ones. Tragic.
Yeah nothing reckless about taking a photo at the edge of a 700ft fall. Poor dude!
This is sad, he was so young. It didn’t say he was doing anything risky so we cannot judge. All it takes is some loose gravel near the edge of a cliff to lose your balance. It’s not worth it.
Did he get the picture JUST WONDERING
He did not take it seriously! And safety wasn’t on the mind! It’s a cliff don’t get close you can fall! I feel bad for his family at lease he died doing what he loved, playing on the edge I guess!
You know what? Good. He deserved it.
Another one….
Wowza! That
sudden stop.
Valley dudes.
Did he get 😳 the picture?
Screamed Geronimo as he fell…
If his friend did push him that will stay with him for the rest if his life FAKE FRIENDS
This will be listed as a Covid death.
Gives new meaning to “for the gram”. What a stupid waste of life and a dumb way to die…
How could the sheriff say their was bo reckless behavior? He was try to take a selfie on a cliff. How’s that not reckless?
Dead because he wanted a good post. RECKLESS!
Suspicious 🤔
A reason why PhotoShop was invented!
I’m so sick of photo taking and social media. At this point hiking trails should ban photo taking because people are obviously are to irresponsible
Tourism brochure mentioned views to die for…
What’s so sad is the technology we have available to us with personal drones being able to take our pictures with however we choose… and still not put ourselves in harms way or life threatening situations… this was unnecessary and tragic…I hope the friend that witnessed his death receives counseling because something that graphic is hard to erase from the mind
Lord how mercy this is so sad, to his family and friends my condolences..
There are certain un-named people I would really like to see go up there and take selfies with the same outcome. oops did I say that out loud?
Loose soil, wind, dizziness, stepping too close to the edge. Take your photos folks, but you don’t have to get on the edge of a cliff to get that “perfect picture”.
Sounds sketchy!
But…was it a sick photo?
See what happens….
😥🙏🙏🙏
Blame social media for this death
Use a drone.
This is exactly what happens when people that are urbanized think they can take that urban mentality and have no respect for nature and these stupid Mobile devices and social media are complicit in this. If you haven’t figured it out yet WAKE UP.
Probably had covid.
Sad that it happened there. One of my favorite trails. I’m glad they are making this a top story. A great many people ‘found’ the outside at the beginning of the pandemic. And that’s great. But a great many of them still don’t know what to do out there. Hopefully this raises some awareness.
Breaking news a moron fell to his death doing something stupid ! no other news today ! Biden has everything under control 😂😆😂😆😂😆😂😆 fake news !
Hiking or roaming around at 1 AM 700 ft high up in a remote unfamiliar jungle just to take a selfie or some pictures. Im speechless. I dont know if hes family will get over it but that is just plain nuts. Who does that. This guy deserves the DARWIN AWARD for sure