A picture is worth 1,000 words...or nothing

Family photo turns up in Czech ad
By BETSY TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer

When Danielle Smith and her family posed for their Christmas card photo last year, they knew they’d share it with family and friends. But the Missouri family wasn’t expecting it to show up in the Czech Republic, splashed across a huge storefront advertisement.

Smith, 36, who lives in the St. Louis suburb of O’Fallon, said Wednesday that she posted the photo on her blog and some online social networking sites. It featured her, her husband Jeff and their two children.

About 10 days ago, a college friend was driving through Prague when he spotted their huge smiling faces in the window of a store specializing in European food. He snapped a few pictures and sent them to a flabbergasted Smith.

“It’s a life-size picture in a grocery store window in Prague — my Christmas card photo!” she said.

Mario Bertuccio, who owns the Grazie store in Prague, said the photo was from the Internet. Details were sparse, but he said he thought it was computer-generated. When told it was a real photo — of a real family — he said he started taking steps to remove it.

“We’ll be happy to write an e-mail with our apology,” said Bertuccio, who insisted he would send the Smiths a bottle of good wine if they lived in his eastern European country."

These people have to be pretty gullable. If you post something on Flickr or one of those other photo sites its going to end up going everywhere on the web. Where do you think I get the awesome story pictures for the blog. This sort of thing never suprises me. I bet there are tons of alcohol awareness posters with pictures of me & the gang passed out at Bash's.