A young woman from Moscow has been critically wounded after trying to take a selfie with a pistol pressed against her temple. It’s only the latest in a series of fatal and near-fatal selfies. 
 
 The 21-year-old employee was at her office, when she took a 9-millimeter rubber-bulletpistol and decided to take a selfie. However, she accidentally pressed the trigger, Interfax reported. 
 
 “Veronika asked the guard to give her the weapon to take a photo, and he didn’t refuse. She took the pistol and started making the selfie, and shot herself in the head by accident,” one of the witnesses told LifeNews. 
 
 After the incident, the guard said that the woman pressed the trigger and the bullet ricocheted off a wall into her head. 
 
 An ambulance was called to the scene, and the victim was taken to the hospital. Medics describe her state as critical, and she is currently in intensive care. 
 
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 The owner of the gun is now facing up to six months behind bars for negligent weapon possession leading to injury, RIA Novosti news agency reported. 
 
 “The letter of the law states that firearms, with the owner absent, should be kept in a special safe, beyond the reach of those not authorized to use it,” a source told the agency. 
 
 The string of bizarre incidents involving selfies includes people doing more and more outlandish things so that their photos stand out from the crowd. 
 
 On Saturday, a Singaporean man died in Bali after falling off a cliff while taking a selfie. Mohammed Aslam Shahul, 21, lost his balance and fell into the sea off a cliff while on vacation with his friends. 
 
 “He slipped and fell into the ocean. He apparently couldn’t swim,” local police said. The man’s body was discovered in the sea at a depth of five meters. 
 
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 Just over a week ago, a teenager was killed in the northeastern Romanian town of Iasi when she was trying to take the “ultimate selfie” on top of a train. Anna Ursu, 18, was posing for the selfie with a friend, when her leg reportedly touched a live wire above, and 27,000 volts were sent through her body. 
 
 A passer-by had previously warned the two about the possible consequences. He heard a loud bang as the young woman was electrocuted and rushed over to try to help, but couldn’t put out the flames, and called an ambulance. The doctors couldn’t save Ursu’s life. 
 
 Ursu’s friend was instantly thrown off the train, and later told police she and her friend were trying to take the “ultimate selfie.” ||||| Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. 
 
 Tnoutdoors9/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET 
 
 I'm not going to say this has to stop. 
 
 For the simple reason that it won't. And any amount of cajoling or pleading won't make a jot of difference. 
 
 People will try and take ever more "creative" selfies and things will go wrong. 
 
 In this instance, a 21-year-old Russian woman was reportedly in the throes of taking a selfie while pointing a 9mm handgun at her head. I don't know if this signaled that she was having a bad day or a good one. 
 
 However, what resulted is the gun went off and she is now in a serious condition. 
 
 Agence France-Presse reports that she was in her office and found the gun, which had been left behind by a security guard. 
 
 While wishing her a full recovery, I wondered whether her act was a first. Sadly, I remembered that it wasn't. 
 
 Last August, a 21-year-old Mexican man died after shooting himself in the head while taking a gun-toting selfie. 
 
 The obsession with cell phones, texting and selfies won't end. People have fallen into Lake Michigan while texting. They've driven into lakes while texting at the wheel. It's not surprising, given an AT&T survey published earlier this week in which 17 percent of people admitted to taking selfies or other photos while driving. 
 
 On Friday, a Singaporean man died after losing his balance while taking a selfie on the edge of a cliff in Bali. 
 
 It's all both sad and sadly avoidable. ||||| A young Russian woman accidentally shot herself in the head with a pistol while posing for a selfie, Russian news agencies reported Friday, citing police. 
 
 The 21-year-old found a 9mm handgun left behind by a security guard at her Moscow office and decided to pose for a photograph holding it, a police spokesman told Interfax news agency. 
 
 While taking a selfie with one hand, she accidentally pressed the gun's trigger, shooting herself in the temple at close range. 
 
 The incident which happened Thursday but was confirmed by police on Friday, led to the woman being hospitalised in a Moscow clinic. 
 
 The victim was in a "serious condition" on Friday, a spokeswoman for Moscow's Sklifosovsky hospital told RIA Novosti state news agency. 
 
 Police are investigating how the woman, who was an office worker, got hold of the gun, a city police spokesman told RIA Novosti. 
 
 The security guard had left the gun at work two weeks earlier before going on holiday, the police spokesman said. 
 
 The trend for posting selfie photographs online led by celebrities such as Kim Kardashian has prompted risky behaviour worldwide. 
 
 A survey this month found 17 percent of Americans had taken a selfie while driving. 
 
 US investigators in February said a pilot's repeated snapping of selfie photos caused a small plane to crash, killing both people on board.
– A Russian woman posing for a selfie with (what else?) a loaded gun pointed at her head accidentally pulled the trigger and shot herself in the temple, reports AFP via the Hindustan Times. The 21-year-old office worker was apparently using a 9mm handgun that a security guard had left behind. The story, which originated with Russian news agencies quoting police, adds that she pulled the trigger at work in Moscow on Thursday and was in "serious condition" the next day (although RT.com reports that she's in critical condition and wounded herself by firing a bullet that ricocheted off a wall and hit her in the head). Now police are investigating how the woman was able to get the guard's gun; a police spokesman says the guard left the weapon there two weeks earlier and went away on holiday. "I'm not going to say this has to stop," writes Chris Matyszczyk at CNET. "For the simple reason that it won't. ... People will try and take ever more 'creative' selfies and things will go wrong." Examples abound, including a teen atop a train and a crashed airplane pilot and passenger who all died after snapping selfies. On the lighter side, a senator went "whole hog to get a pig selfie."