On Thursday, the Lewiston (Id.) Tribune * ran two front-page stories with photos. One was a human-interest pic of a guy painting holiday messages on a store window, the other a surveillance-cam image of a fellow who lifted a wallet from the counter at a minimart (click the front page to see it full-sized):
As the Associated Press reports:
Some sharp-eyed copy editors at the newspaper first noticed the matching photos as they were laying out the newspaper Wednesday night and wondered if they showed the same man, managing editor Paul Emerson said Thursday.
"They were pointing it out and laughing about it," Emerson said.
A newspaper employee called the nearby Clarkston, Wash., police department early the next morning to report their suspicions.
Their suspicions were right; the window-painter confessed.
* I'd link directly to the Lewiston Tribune's website, but I can't get in there; it's for dead-tree subscribers only. Sort of dumb on the day when people around the world are trying to read the story that the paper broke. Nevertheless -- good on you, Tribune copy editors.
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