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TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (244)

This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Reuters (from Monday, November 9; link good at time of posting):

A British man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local paper because he disliked the mugshot they had printed of him as part of a public appeal to track him down.

South Wales Police had issued media with the photo of Matthew Maynard, wanted by officers investigating a house burglary, as part of a crackdown on crime in Swansea.

When it appeared in the South Wales Evening Post, the 23-year-old sent the newspaper a replacement photo of himself standing in front of a police van. They obligingly printed it on the front page.

The police thanked him for helping them in their appeal, saying: "Everyone in Swansea will know what he looks like now."

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Full post as published by Infamy or Praise on November 13, 2009 (boomark / email).