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

[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.