Family's Christmas Photos Hawk Groceries In Prague 263
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.'"
its a new kind of internet weirdness (Score:5, Funny)
other (funnier) examples of global clashing with local:
http://boingboing.net/2008/07/15/chinese-restaurant-c.html [boingboing.net]
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/bert.asp [snopes.com]
Can we go more global? (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....
Re:Total Hijack (Score:1, Funny)
Stop messing with my head.
I wouldn't be so sure (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For chrissakes, you're American, right? (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder what will be the grounds for their decision.
Anyone going to spill the beans?
Re:Really... (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? :)
Least convincing explanation ever (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Total Hijack (Score:3, 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.
Re:For chrissakes, you're American, right? (Score:3, Funny)
p.s. I rarely drink coffee- though it tastes good, it disagrees with my stomach.
Re:its a new kind of internet weirdness (Score:3, 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 [independent.ie]
Apologies for earlier deprivation of visual depiction of Internet-aided and reported oddity from around the world.