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2018-07-04 -Obits-

China's HNA Chairman Wang dies after fall during trip to France

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-04 08:11|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 A police source in France said Wang had died after a 10 meter fall off a wall while trying to take photographs in the village of Bonnieux, near Avignon.

They don't have a proper French word for selfie?

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-04 09:07|| 2018-07-04 09:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Avignon? Maybe he was there to see the antipope, but antipopes gonna antipope...

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-07-04 10:53|| 2018-07-04 10:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Couldn't find a wall to fall from in China ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-07-04 12:26|| 2018-07-04 12:26|| Front Page Top

#4 The book "Over the Edge" tells the tale of a Japanese tourist who concentrated so much on taking a photo of a building on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon that he simply backed "over the edge" and fell to his death.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-07-04 13:43|| 2018-07-04 13:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Sur le pont d'Avignon en Provence,
République islamique de la France,
Les Français prient comme ça
Et puis encore comme ça
Since they finished their Renaissance danse.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-07-04 16:02|| 2018-07-04 16:02|| Front Page Top

#6 One giant argument for the use of a selfie stick.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-07-04 17:12|| 2018-07-04 17:12|| Front Page Top

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