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Vladimir Putin Politics

LIGHTHOUSE PARKED IN FIELD, HE TAKES QUESTIONS

Found: one lighthouse, 200 miles from water, very long table in the lamp room, enquire within

Existence confidence provisional
A generated photo of an anonymous stranger. It is not the person named.
Vladimir Putin waits in a post office queue, keeping a very long table's distance from the person ahead.
Location
Field behind a 24-hour diner outside Tucumcari, New Mexico
Currently
Answering the public's questions from a lamp room, hour six
Last confirmed sighting
Walking the length of the lamp room, four minutes, unhurried
Observations
Can be heard stirring tea from the far end of a table in Wyoming.

The lighthouse was moved 200 miles inland overnight and now stands between a diner and a field of sunflowers. He carries on from the lamp room, which has been fitted with a table so long the salt must be posted. The diner's night cook brings coffee to the near end.

He is currently running a phone-in from the lantern gallery, taking questions in the order the beam passes them. It is going steadily: four hours in, he has answered eleven hundred callers, mostly about the lighthouse. The judo mats on the second landing remain in daily use.

The public keep asking where the sea has gone. He says it is being looked into. They also ask whether the table can be shortened, and the answer is no, though a guest may now sit anywhere along the first forty metres.

Guidance for the public

Do not ask the lighthouse for directions to the coast; it has already been asked.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 22 October 2026. Born 7 October 1952. Source: Wikidata

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