Ashy Bines has been slammed for riding a scooter without a helmet.
The fitness influencer, 35, has had two brain surgeries over the past 12 months after she was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm in June.
Images of Ashy were posted on the Outspoken Podcast Community Facebook page, depicting Ashy having a good time exploring Bali alongside her friend and podcast partner, Tijana Bundalo.
However, the photos show the pair dangerously balancing on the back of a scooter, both not wearing helmets.Â
A second photo also shows Ashy on the back of the scooter without any head protection and beaming broadly.
Commenters slammed Ashy for being irresponsible.
One follower quoted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stating, ‘Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.’
Another comment read, ‘Not shocked at all, a while back she and her new buddy chose to dangle their upper bodies out of a car in motion and record a video of it.’
‘Unfortunately Ashy – Peter Pan – Bines will continue to do moronic things until her actions have consequences.’
The angry commenter continued: ‘There’s genuinely no way that 1 million people are silly enough to actually follow and look up to this almost 40 year old mother of 2 who insists on behaving like a child-free 21-year-old.’
Another jumped in with: ‘Ashy Bines. 2x brain surgeries of late, speaks about how grateful she is to survive on a podcast released only yesterday. But… wears no helmet while riding on the back of a motorcycle twice in Bali in the space of 24 hours.Â
‘Why are influencers this dumb? How many people have died or suffered serious injuries doing this?’
A third offered: ‘I just can’t when people do this… it makes my blood boil! So ridiculously stupid.’
Yet another commenter was more succinct in their scathing assessment of the mum-of-two.Â
‘Not a thought behind those eyes,’ they wrote.
According to Bali.com: ‘Beside the ‘Bali Belly’, scooter accidents are probably the most common ‘problem’ travellers experience in Bali and in that sense, it’s also the most dangerous activity – but mostly self-induced, and sometimes even fatal.’
Never one to shy away from courting social media controversy, Ashy was also called out in February after posting a video to TikTok that showed her hanging out of the window of a moving car.
Appearing not to have a seat belt on, Ashy, who was a passenger in the vehicle, stuck her head through the open window before leaning out backwards at shoulder height.Â
Viewers of the deleted clip were not amused by what they saw, with several comments condemning the act.
‘Normally I’d just think “idiot” but if she has a million followers, it’s really poor form to influence those who are vulnerable to copying such stupidity,’ one person said.
‘My old babysitter’s son died by doing this, I’ll never understand how some people truly think they’re invincible,’ one more wrote.
‘I know of someone who got beheaded doing something similar,’ added another.
It comes after Ashy shocked her followers in March when she revealed her brain aneurysm diagnosis.
She was rushed to hospital after experiencing sudden loss of vision, with surgery being scheduled in July before it was pushed back to August.
Ashy revealed that surgeons removed the first aneurysm, but discovered a second that they were unable to remove in the process.Â
‘I had my surgery, and it went really well. However, when I woke up, they told me the news that they actually found and discovered another aneurysm,’ she told her followers in an emotional clip.
‘So they treated the original one today, but they couldn’t treat the second one, and I will most likely have to have another surgery before the year’s out.’
Ashy went under the knife again in January, telling followers at the time: ‘I’m HOME. Survived my second brain surgery and ready to leave this chapter in the past.
‘Grateful for my surgeon, the nurses, my family, friends and community who kept me so strong and supported to get through it all, don’t know how I’d get through something like that without them!!’Â
