By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-30 19:28:11 | Updated at 2024-10-30 21:34:37
2 hours ago
2 influencers drown after insisting life jackets would ‘get in the way of their tanning’ during boat party: police
NY Post ^ | 10/29/2024 | Anna Young
Posted on 10/30/2024 12:24:17 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Two influencers are dead after refusing to wear lifejackets on a speedboat that sank off the Brazilian coast – because they didn’t want the safety gear to ruin their tan in photos, according to police.
Aline Tamara Moreira de Amorim, 37, and Beatriz Tavares da Silva Faria, 27, ignored pleas to wear their life preservers when an overcrowded boat taking them back to shore from a yacht party capsized in the rough waters of Devil’s Throat along the Iguazu River, according to local reports.
“Some didn’t want to put them on because they were taking selfies,” Sao Vincente Police Commissioner Marcos Alexandra Alfino said, based on testimony by the boat’s captain.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: drown; influencers; lifejackets; tanning
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This influencer stuff has gotten out of hand
To: ChicagoConservative27
To: ChicagoConservative27
They have influenced me to wear a life jacket whenever I ride in an overcrowded speedboat off the coast of Brazil.
3 posted on 10/30/2024 12:26:40 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Maybe they ended up influencing people to wear their life jackets, so a silver lining.
4 posted on 10/30/2024 12:27:16 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Well I guess they are posthumously influencing boat safety. Shame.
5 posted on 10/30/2024 12:27:53 PM PDT by DAC21
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