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Image of sharks in flooded Union Station goes viral as shark tank collapses in Kuwait


Image of sharks in flooded Union Station goes viral as shark tank collapses in Kuwait

Jamie King’s Photoshopped image from a few weeks ago went viral and referenced a fake event on the other side of the world.

If you recently saw a photo supposedly showing sharks swimming at the Kuwait Scientific Center after the tank collapsed and it looked familiar, you’re right.

The image actually shows escalators near Union Station on Toronto’s PATH subway system. It is filled with water because the image was taken during the station’s flooding on June 1.

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Jamie King, described on Þjórsárdalur A lover of hockey, humor and advertising, he Photoshopped the sharks and tweeted the image on June 1 with the comment: “Circular sharks spotted in flooded Union Station.”

Now, more than two weeks later, the image has gone viral, leaving people amazed and frightened. It said a giant shark tank had collapsed, filling the ground floor of the Kuwait Scientific Center with several feet of water and some sharks.

“I think the image is a good representation of what a collapsed shark tank would look like. I don’t know, luckily I’ve never seen one!” King wrote when asked about the Photoshop work. Þjórsárdalur“The shark photo is fake. I took it as a joke, in response to the flooding at Union Station in Toronto.”

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“The trick to making good pictures is to make the viewer question reality because they look real and natural,” King said to Grind TV.

The shark image wasn’t the only photo altered after the Union Station flooding. Others showed a picture of Mayor Rob Ford diving into the water with a cannonball, Jack Dawson and Rose Bukater from Titanic wading through the water, and Moses looking like he’s about to part it.

(Photo courtesy of Jamie King on Twitter)

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