{"id":1968027,"date":"2023-07-09T16:46:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T20:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dad-dies-in-front-of-children-as-wife-films-attempt-at-viral-trend-she-recorded-his-death\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T08:49:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T12:49:05","slug":"dad-dies-in-front-of-children-as-wife-films-attempt-at-viral-trend-she-recorded-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dad-dies-in-front-of-children-as-wife-films-attempt-at-viral-trend-she-recorded-his-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Father dies in front of kids while wife films viral trend, capturing his death."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdad-dies-in-front-of-children-as-wife-films-attempt-at-viral-trend-she-recorded-his-death%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1968027&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Americans Spend Too Much Time Online, Putting Themselves at Risk<\/h2>\n<p>According to Exploding Topics, Americans spend an average of six and a half hours a day online. That\u2019s about a third of the time a person is awake. Of that time, about two and a half hours are spent on social media.<\/p>\n<p>With that <a href=\"https:\/\/explodingtopics.com\/blog\/social-media-usage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amount of time<\/a> spent in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-chinas-wining-dining-elon-musk-big-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cyberspace<\/a>, there\u2019s bound to be some confusion as to what\u2019s real and what\u2019s virtual reality. That can be dangerous, even deadly. In a disturbing example of this danger, yet another TikTok challenge is proving to be fatal. One woman filmed her husband\u2019s death as he took up the challenge.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Captain Jim Dennis of Alabama\u2019s Childersburg Rescue Squad explained the tragic trend to <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs2iowa.com\/news\/nation-world\/alabama-talladega-county-childersburg-rescue-squad-warning-against-deadly-boating-tik-tok-trend-bobby-poitevint\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KGAN<\/a>. \u201c[In the] Last six months we have had four drownings that were easily avoidable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were doing a TikTok challenge. It\u2019s where you get in a boat going at a high rate of speed, you jump off the side of the boat, don\u2019t dive, you\u2019re jumping off feet first and you just kinda lean into the water.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It shouldn\u2019t surprise you that all four of the victims were men. It might surprise you that the victims weren\u2019t all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/man-pronounced-dead-smashing-18-wheeler-miraculously-survives-warn-others-drunk-driving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drunken teenagers<\/a> full of hormones showing off social media.<\/p>\n<p>The first incident was in February when a man died while jumping into the Coosa River. His wife and their children watched from inside the boat, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/08\/boatjumping-tiktok-trends-claim-4-lives-in-6-months-in-alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, she recorded his death,\u201d Dennis said.<\/p>\n<p>In another incident, the victim was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-spent-the-day-hearing-from-quite-a-few-old-college-classmates-tucker-says-wapo-looking-for-dirt-on-him\/\" title=\"\u2018We Spent The Day Hearing From Quite A Few Old College Classmates\u2019: Tucker Says WaPo Looking For Dirt On Him\">middle-aged man<\/a>, according to KGAN. Sadly, adolescent behavior isn\u2019t just for adolescents anymore.<\/p>\n<p>In the race to post video clips on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kim-kardashian-deletes-9-year-old-daughters-tiktok-video-admits-maybe-kanye-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-facebook-parent-company-meta-slammed-record-breaking-fine-ordered-change-course\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-twitter-threatens-major-legal-action-meta-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-tech-to-ban-parler-over-lack-of-content-moderation\/\" title=\"Big tech to ban Parler over lack of content moderation\">social media sites<\/a>, more and more people are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meghan-mccain-to-produce-tv-movie-starring-heather-locklear\/\" title=\"Meghan McCain To Produce TV Movie Starring Heather Locklear\">taking big risks<\/a> to build up a manufactured image of their life that is not a reflection true reflection of reality. They post videos of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dad-dies-in-front-of-children-as-wife-films-attempt-at-viral-trend-she-recorded-his-death\/\" title=\"Father dies in front of kids while wife films viral trend, capturing his death.\">smiling families enjoying exotic vacations<\/a> and the like.<\/p>\n<p>For people living in a world where, according to Exploding Topics, the average person spends about two and a half hours on social media every day, checks their mobile devices 159 times a day, and users will spend 4 trillion hours on social media this year, it might seem like cyberspace is reality.<\/p>\n<p>Why deal with the reality of a broken world when you can spend a good portion of your day inside a cyber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/man-tries-towing-10000-pound-trailer-ev-truck-winter-goes-100-miles-gets-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">utopia<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>In cyber world, it\u2019s only natural that people want to put on their best face for public consumption. It\u2019s like getting dressed up for family pictures at Christmas. People don\u2019t want you to see their kids fighting, the burnt turkey in the oven, or old grandpa, after partaking a bit too much of the spiked eggnog, asleep and drooling in his chair.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, social media is a web of lies.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nakedsecurity.sophos.com\/2016\/04\/07\/over-75-of-people-lie-on-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sophos<\/a>, in 2106 over 75 percent of people lied on social media. \u201cIn a survey of 2000 Brits, more than 75% admitted to lying about themselves on social profiles. Only 18% said that their Twitter and Facebook profiles accurately represent them. Some 31% said that their Facebook profiles are \u2018pretty much my life but without the boring bits.\u2019 And 14% said that Facebook makes them look much more socially active than they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found that men are more prone than women when it comes to accentuating reality. \u201cNearly half \u2014 43% \u2014 of men polled admitted to fabricating facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, it seems petty \u2014 arrested adolescents playing out in cyberspace. But when lies start spilling over and colliding with the truth. It can be deadly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Captain Dennis said boat jumping is \u201ca very big concern because we have seen this pattern emerge over the last two years and it\u2019s sporadic. But it\u2019s something that needs to go away and stay away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say, \u201cI think people if they\u2019re being filmed on camera, I think they\u2019re more likely to do something stupid because they want to show off in front of their friends for social media,\u201d according to the Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not do it,\u201d Dennis said, \u201cIt\u2019s not worth your life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exactly. Get real.<\/p>\n<p>Real life and cyber world are two different things. Too many people are to blurring the lines.<\/p>\n<p>Reality might bite, but it wins every time.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dad-dies-front-children-wife-films-attempt-viral-trend-recorded-death\/\">Dad Dies in Front of Children as Wife Films Attempt at Viral Trend: &#8216;She Recorded His Death&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Exploding Topics, Americans spend around 6.5 hours daily online, accounting for about one-third of their waking hours. Approximately 2.5 hours are dedicated to social media. Given this significant online presence, it&#8217;s inevitable to encounter certain consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2131,"featured_media":1968028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Father dies in front of kids while wife films viral trend, capturing his death.","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Father dies in front of kids while wife films viral trend, capturing his death.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}