Tourist tries clicking selfie during Venice floods, falls into water. Viral video has 5 lakh views

A hilarious video of a tourist in Venice - shot during the floods in the Italian city - has gone crazy viral on social media. Since the beginning of November, Venice battled difficult conditions as the city was hit by its highest tide in more than 50 years.

The four-second clip has been shared on Twitter by StanceGrounded and has garnered over five lakh views so far. Of course, because it is funny. The clip features a man wading through a flooded area in Venice with a selfie stick and guess what happened next?

Well, you need to watch this yourself:

Tourist in Venice, Italy

I'm going to hell for laughing pic.twitter.com/o6iWPa0zzu StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) November 25, 2019

The video has garnered over 26,000 likes while netizens posted funny lines in the comments section. "While in Venice, be like scuba diver," a user said while another added, "Scoot over! We are all coming along."

Internet cannot stop laughing as well:

He’s being one with nature now! Persian Rose (@PersianRose1) November 25, 2019

Underrated tweet. Neale (@AbeFroman) November 25, 2019

Scoot over! We are all coming along DEANNA CASTELLANOS (@DEEES2SWEET) November 25, 2019

pic.twitter.com/T5ctD1Hwx1 Marco Anderson (@MarcoAndersonn) November 25, 2019

Then I'll see you there! Walter Ego (@walterego68_ego) November 25, 2019

Venice, a World Heritage Site, was flooded on November 12 by a tidal surge of 187 cm, the highest level since 1966, when a 194 cm tide was recorded, news agency IANS reports. Within the next four days, Venice's St Mark's Square was completely drowned in water.

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