Jun 15, 2009

U.S. family Christmas photo turns up in Czech advertisement

It's an international mystery: how did a Missouri family's Christmas card photo end up in the Czech Republic, splashed across a huge storefront advertisement?

Danielle Smith said Wednesday that the photo taken of her family last year got sent to family and friends, and was posted on her blog and a few social networking sites. The photo showed her and her husband Jeff holding their two young children.


One of Smith's college friends was driving through Prague when he spotted their life-size faces in the window of a store specializing in European food.

The friend snapped a few pictures and sent them to the Smith family back in Missouri with a note saying it was it's a life-size picture in a grocery store window in Prague!

Mario Bertuccio, who owns the Grazie store in Prague, said the photo was computer generated from a picture found on the Internet.

Bertuccio said he would be happy to write an e-mail with an apology. He also said he would send the Smiths a bottle of good wine if they lived in his eastern European country.

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