Selfie `Memalukan` di Tengah Teror Mencekam di di Sydney
Selfie Shame Has Erupted on Twitter at the Scene of Sydney Terror Siege
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
DI TENGAH aksi mencekam seperti penyanderaan tidak lantas membuat semua orang khawatir, karena buktinya sejumlah orang yang menyaksikan drama panyanderaan puluhan orang pengunjung Kafe Lindt di Sydney, Australia, malah bersenang ria berlomba memoto dirinya sendiri alias selfie dengan latar belakang penyanderaan.
Sydney Morning Herald melaporkan, tiga pria terlihat berfose di depan polisi yang menjaga barikade yang mencegah masyarakat mendekati TKP di CBD Martin Place, pusat kota Sydney itu.
Tiga pria ini berlomba tersenyum di depan polisi, sedangkan seorang lainnya mengacungkan tanda "v" atau victory atau kemenangan ke arah kamera ponsel pintarnya.
Ada juga pejalan kaki yang kebetulan lewat di situ menyempatkan diri berselfie ria di depan jalan yang menutup CBD Martin Place tersebut.
Setelah itu muncul di Twitter guyonan kematian gara-gara memakan cokelat dari Kafe Lindt. Beberapa diantaranya malah makin keblinger dengan menambahkan tagar #toosoon.
THEY SAY disasters bring out the best in people. Not in everyone, it seems. Cheerful onlookers have been snapping mobile phone "selfies" at the perimeters of the Sydney siege as a still unknown number of hostages remain prisoners of a gunman.
Several photos being shared were originally uploaded to Instagram. One man shared a photo with a fire truck in the background and the hashtag #hostagesituationselfie. The photo has since been deleted from his account.
In another happy snap, three men likely to be tourists pose in front of the police tape marking off the exclusion zone around the terrifying hostage situation in the Lindt cafe in Martin Place. One of the men gives the peace sign.
A number of the selfies posted to social media are being shared on Twitter as social media users shame and condemn the subjects for their insensitivity.
There were also people making jokes on Twitter about death by Lindt chocolate. Some, self-consciously, even added the hashtag #toosoon.
