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Family's Christmas Photos Hawk Groceries In Prague

Posted by kdawson on from the smiling-happy-faces dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "The Telegraph reports that Jeff and Danielle Smith sent a photo of themselves with their two young children to family and friends as a Christmas card, and posted the image on her blog and a few social networking websites. Then, last month, a friend of the family was vacationing in the Czech Republic when he spotted a full size poster of the Missouri family's smiling faces in the window of a local supermarket in Prague, advertising a grocery delivery service. The friend snapped a few pictures and sent them to the Smiths, who were flabbergasted. Mario Bertuccio, who owns the Grazie store in Prague, admitted that he had found the photo online but thought it was computer-generated and promised to remove it, and 'We'll be happy to write an e-mail with our apology,' he says. Meanwhile Mrs. Smith has received 180,000 visitors and over 500 comments on her blog since she posted the story. She says she is glad the photo wasn't used in an unseemly manner. 'Interesting. Bizarre. Flattering, I suppose,' writes Mrs. Smith. 'But quite creepy.'"

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  1. its a new kind of internet weirdness by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    other (funnier) examples of global clashing with local:

    http://boingboing.net/2008/07/15/chinese-restaurant-c.html

    http://www.snopes.com/rumors/bert.asp

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    1. Re:its a new kind of internet weirdness by zoney_ie · · Score: 2, Funny

      I didn't in fact think it had had much coverage, thought it was more an email-forward thing just in Ireland, but here is actually a news article from Irish Independent newspaper with the aforementioned image:
      http://www.independent.ie/national-news/iran-on-track-with-help-of-irish-rail-1767781.html

      Apologies for earlier deprivation of visual depiction of Internet-aided and reported oddity from around the world.

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  2. Can we go more global? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Italian guy in Czech Republic has used a photo of american family. It was pizzeria, was not it? If it was chineese restaurant....

  3. Re:Total Hijack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Stop messing with my head.

  4. I wouldn't be so sure by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps the supermarket has access to the same sort of computers as they use on CSI, NCIS etc. They probably have 3d models of the family, reconstructed based on DNA obtained by enhancing the Facespace photo and zooming in to the atomic level.

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  5. Re:For chrissakes, you're American, right? by TheLink · · Score: 5, Funny

    Trying to use the Wheels of Justice to grind Nescafe...

    I wonder what will be the grounds for their decision.

    Anyone going to spill the beans?

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  6. Re:Really... by YourExperiment · · Score: 5, Funny

    Read my sig and guess where I am from :-)

    Hmm, somewhere that has only a loose grasp of English grammar and apostrophe use... the USA? :)

  7. Least convincing explanation ever by dugeen · · Score: 2, Funny

    'He said he thought the image was computer-generated'

  8. Re:Total Hijack by 6Yankee · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I let this kind of nonsense out into production, I'd be strung up by my genitals.

    As far as a "fix" goes, in Firefox with Firebug installed, I right-click the offending image, click "Inspect Element", and delete a character from the background-image url.

  9. Re:For chrissakes, you're American, right? by TheLink · · Score: 3, Funny

    What next? You want mug shots?

    p.s. I rarely drink coffee- though it tastes good, it disagrees with my stomach.

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