This Week in WTF, July 18, 2014

– In Pamplona, “recklessness” is highly relative: Police in Pamplona, Spain are reportedly seeking a man who appears to have taken a selfie while participating in the Running of the Bulls. Because that shit’s dangerous, yo.

According to the Guardian the man faces a fine of up to 3,000 euros under new regulations passed this year in Pamplona, designed to “crack down on dangerous behaviour during the festival.” Because running in front of charging, pissed-off bulls somehow doesn’t qualify as “dangerous behavior.” But throw a selfie into the mix and forget about it—now you’re just being reckless. The new rules prohibit any kind of unauthorized recording during the bull runs.

– Dangerous cosplay: I don’t know who Chun Li is, but I don’t want to mess with her.

Chun Li

– This may be why they call them disposable: If you wear contact lenses, you need to take them out, ideally whenever you sleep if not more often. Otherwise, amoebas might eat your corneas:

A Taiwanese student has gone blind after keeping contact lenses in her eyes for six months straight. NO NO NO NO NO.

By not taking her lenses out or cleaning them at all, Lian Kao created the perfect condition between her eyeball and the lens for acanthamoeba to develop. The single cell bugs can apparently “burrow their way through the cornea,” and that’s exactly what happened to Kao—that shit literally ate up the surface of her eyeballs.

I think the correct phrasing might actually be “amoebae might eat your corneae,” which, let’s face it, is even more terrifying.

There’s a bonus story from the comments:

Once, during my high school lit class, it came out that one of our friends (this is an honors class full of presumably smartish kids) had not taken his contact lenses out or even used saline solution in his eyes for TWO YEARS. The contacts wearers among us were astonished (mine start to fall apart after about 6 weeks). Anyway, one person dared him to take them out, so he did. Unfortunately, part of his corneas also came off, and he began hysterically screaming. He had a transplant but is still legally blind in one eye. Our teacher told us the next day that he didn’t feel the need to tell us anymore that following directions is a crucial life skill.

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