ST. LOUIS, Missouri –

So there you are on a wonderful, once and a lifetime, dream vacation in the Czech Republic. A world away from the distractions of your normal life in the United States. Driving through the streets of Prague, one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, you notice familiar faces in the window of a grocery store. But the faces are not attached to actual people, rather in the form of a family portrait covering the entire window of a Prague grocery store. You double-take to make sure you saw what you think you saw.

You did, and you confirm that your dear friend’s enormous family portrait is plastered all over the window of one of the last places in the world you’d ever expect to see it. It was being used as an advertisement for the grocery store, a way to make it seem more family friendly and to draw customers inside. You immediately snap a few pictures and send them to your friend and give her the bizarre news.

As with everything on StrageRush.com this situation actually did happen to Danielle and Jeff Smith of St. Louis, Missouri. When Danielle heard the news from her friend and saw the picture, she was flabbergasted. She had only used the Christmas card photo on her blog and sent it out to friends and family. But she had no idea how it ended up on the window of a grocery store on the other side of the world.

The owner of the store in Prague, Mario Bertuccio, said the photo was taken off the Internet, and he had believed it was a computer-generated photo (Check out the photo below, they definitely look like computer generated people). When he was told it was a real photo, of a real family, he said he began to remove it……and then I’m sure he jumped back on the net and looked for another computer generated-family to exploit.

The moral of the story: Once it’s on the internet, ANYTHING goes.

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