The kid stays in the picture

[webofevil]

Alongside a story in its sports pages a couple of weeks ago, the Sunday Times ran a photo of a rugby scrum. The oddity that it contains is barely visible in the small version that it ran online and could easily have gone unnoticed:

However, the same image in the print edition was much bigger, allowing keen-eyed readers to spot this:

Is that a child? Who photoshopped a child in there? Was it to spare the blushes of Sunday Times readers because of a rogue cock adrift in the scrum? Was the picture editor hoping one day to sell the image on eBay for a vastly inflated price because it’s “haunted”? Or is the Sunday Times running some kind of competition, in which case what do we win?

Comments

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

I think the child its real. If you look above its head in the big picture, there's a white horizontal bit that looks like the top of an advertising hoarding, and the child is a ballperson crouching down. The interesting thing is that the white stripe isn't in the small picture, even though the child still is.

[lizzydragon.livejournal.com]

I think you are right, but if you follow the top of the green hoarding at the left of the original picture, you see it continues as the green bit between the legs of the man standing above the child. Meaning that the child is presumably in a picture on the hoarding?

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

Ah; interesting, and only slightly disappointing. For extra points, then, can anyone identify the advert? The haunted advert?

[lizzydragon.livejournal.com]

Now I think maybe it's a real child.... I've found this slideshow - look at image number 5

bleacherreport.com/gallery/Leicester+Tigers+v+Northampton+Saints+AVIVA+Premiership+Semi+Final?d=05/14/2011&permalink=rugby

but the ghost idea sounds much better.