Regret the Error

This week the Peterborough Examiner in Ontario, Canada published this apology:

Sometimes in life there is no other, or even better, word than sorry.
In Monday’s paper a photograph was published that shouldn’t have appeared as it did and we are sorry. It certainly was not published intentionally.
Some of our web readers did notice and we immediately took the photo from our website and electronic edition as soon as we were made aware of the problem but the print edition had already gone out.
We apologize to everyone who may have been offended.

You get the sense there was something very wrong with the offending photo. As it turns out, the image showed some students having fun at the Kinsmen Santa Claus Parade. One guy was really enjoying himself. So much, in fact, the neither he nor the photographer noticed that his penis had fallen out of his shorts.

Torontoist has the full, image, which also appeared in Metro Toronto, a free commuter daily. (Torontoist has since pixelated the guy’s member becasue he’s only 17 and the school asked the blog to do so.) Here’s the top part of the photo:

Thanks, Newshawk!

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