This GTA photographer is programmed to drown themselves — and the reason is a developer mistake
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This GTA photographer is programmed to drown themselves — and the reason is a developer mistake

The 'Suicidal Photographer' in GTA San Andreas is a real, proven NPC who spawns on the Flint County coast, takes photos of Los Santos, then calmly walks into the water and dies. The bizarre behavior isn't intentional — it's likely a pathfinding glitch. The devs never gave the photographer a proper path to follow after their photo animation, so they default to the nearest pedestrian path... which happens to be across the ocean in Rodeo, Los Santos. If you use a map editor to build them a bridge, they'll walk straight to Rodeo and behave completely normally.

Verdict:Confirmed

Source: Suicidal Photographers — CC BY-SA

The full story

Protected wiki heritage, but we're only here for one thing: watching that photographer casually stroll to their watery doom.
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Protected wiki heritage, but we're only here for one thing: watching that photographer casually stroll to their watery doom.

There they are! The Suicidal Photographer snapping pics of Los Santos, completely oblivious to their upcoming swim with the fishes.
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There they are! The Suicidal Photographer snapping pics of Los Santos, completely oblivious to their upcoming swim with the fishes.

The map reveals the brutal truth: the nearest pedestrian path is across the ocean in Rodeo, so the pathfinding bug turns them into a drowning legend.
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The map reveals the brutal truth: the nearest pedestrian path is across the ocean in Rodeo, so the pathfinding bug turns them into a drowning legend.

Photo animation done, and now... marching straight into the drink. No bridge, no hope, just one simple bug that turned an NPC into myth.
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Photo animation done, and now... marching straight into the drink. No bridge, no hope, just one simple bug that turned an NPC into myth.

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