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Train selfie takes a turn when guy gets kicked in head by conductor

Okay, I think it’s safe to say the selfie situation has gotten out of control.

If you’re trying to take a sweet pic of yourself on train tracks, close enough to an oncoming train that the conductor can literally kick you in the head, you’ve got a problem. A serious selfie problem.

Of course, there is the distinct possibility this whole stunt was staged to highlight the sheer ridiculousness of selfies everywhere, but judge that for yourself.

Jared Michael posted this video on YouTube of him taking a selfie while an oncoming train is passing by. He is so close that he literally gets kicked in the head from someone on the front of the train.

First of all, if you know what a selfie is, then you know how to take one. The first tip-off that this was just a little bit staged was that Michael was on video mode, not camera.

Second, assuming the kicker who is at the very front of the train is the conductor, you have to wonder, what kind of train conductor kicks a guy in the head?! Pretty sure he’s got more to deal with driving the train safely than going out of his way to stick his leg out and kick this guy (not to mention it's also a serious safety risk).

But for kicks, let’s just go over Michael’s reasoning:

“I tried to take a selfie while a train passed a ‘safe’ distance behind. I guess I was still too close and got kicked in the head. I messed up,” he said.

A ‘safe’ distance behind? No, Michael, you were not a safe distance behind.

In order for Michael to get kicked in the head by someone on a passing train, he must have been standing pretty close. Besides, how close did he want to get for this train selfie? It would have been just as good a selfie taken from a few feet further away.

All I'm saying is that it could have been staged. The connection of face and foot at the exact moment is just astonishingly precise. It could have been rehearsed. Maybe the kicker and Michael practiced this and filmed it to gain that monumental 15 minutes of Internet fame.

Okay, but if the video is real, then this guy is the luckiest idiot alive. Seriously, didn’t your mom ever tell you not to play on the train tracks? Especially not while wearing headphones?

In a recent interview about the whole ordeal, he says the video is “100 percent real.” He claims the incident happened while he was waiting for a train in Machu Picchu, Peru.

Though the video has now been broken down frame-by-frame by other sources to see if it is indeed real, Heavy.com is skeptical because it is the only video on Michael’s YouTube channel, furthering their belief that it might be a hoax.

Either way, this girl’s tweet about the whole situation pretty much summed it up for most of us in parts of Canada where winter returned yesterday:

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