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Tourism

Tourists Flock for ‘Holding Up the Chimney’ Photos — From a Very Safe Distance

Forced perspective, outside the cordon, please.

Pose, from afar.

Pose, from afar. Photo: Two Penny Theatre, “Tourists taking photos in Barcelona”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

PERTH — Visitors have reportedly been perfecting the classic Pisa pose from the far end of South Street, pretending to prop up the Leaning Tower of Perth. Officials remind everyone to stay outside the cordon and the photos, they say, work just as well from there.

The real story: Satire; real cordon context.

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