Photo: UK Guardian/AP/Smiths
At St. Louis family of four recently learned that their faces were plastered on a large advertising poster–in Prague. The Christmas family photo had made it much further than expected. The BBC has more:
Danielle and Jeff Smith used the photo as their Christmas card, and also posted it on an internet blog. A friend travelling in the Czech capital alerted them when he spotted the Smiths smiling at him, life-size, from a poster in a supermarket.
“It’s a life-size picture in a grocery store window in Prague – my Christmas card photo!” said a startled Ms Smith, 36, who lives in a suburb of St Louis.
Mario Bertuccio, whose Grazie shop specialises in Italian food imports, said that he thought the image had been computer-generated. He used it to advertise his shop’s grocery delivery service. When told that it showed a real family, he took steps to remove it.
“We’ll be happy to write an e-mail with our apology,” said Mr Bertuccio, adding that if the family had lived locally, he would have offered them a bottle of wine.
The Smiths…said they would add a watermark to any family photos they post in the future.
