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CanIBringMySelfieStick.com tells you which attractions will (rightly?) block the selfie stick

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By John McCarthy, Opinion Editor

July 27, 2015 | 2 min read

As more and more venues crack down on the nuisance that is the selfie stick, ardent self-photographers increasingly risk having their equipment binned before they are granted access to top attractions.

London football grounds for Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, Wimbledon, Disney World and more, are already among the high-profile venues blacklisting the instruments on the grounds they are “dangerous” or an obstruction.

As a result, and predictably, one website has cropped up to ensure people who insist on capturing each meal, chance meeting and insignificant moment for acknowledgement on their many social media accounts, do not have their sticks binned on the door.

CanIBringMySelfieStick.com enables holiday-goers to pinpoint selfie-stick hatin’ venues by name, or by city, ensuring their holiday selfie slideshows are not tainted by undocumented gaps.

The site was launched by AttractionTix.com features 100 top sites from across the world, Simon Applebaum, consumer marketing director at AttractionTix.co.uk, said: “People taking selfies using selfie sticks has become a common sight in the UK and around the world, whether it’s at theme parks or at tourist hot spots like the Eiffel Tower.

“But, it was when Walt Disney World announced in June that they were banning selfie sticks at their parks that we realised there was no source for people to find out if they can bring their selfie sticks or if they would have to leave them at the entrance."

AttractionTix provides e-tickets from over 30 global tourist attractions across London, New York, Paris, Rome, Barcelona and Dubai.

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