• Vilnius City Municipality via AP

    Vilnius mayor acknowledges distributing digitally altered tank photo

    Our original PhotoBlog post from August 3 contains the altered still. The video is unaltered.

    AP reports:

    This two picture combination shows on top, a frame grab taken from a video produced for the Swedish television show "99 Things To Do Before You Die" and distributed by the Vilnius City Municipality, showing Arturas Zuokas, the 43 year old mayor of Vilnius, accompanied by one of the show's producers riding along with the mayor as he drives a military vehicle over a car parked illegally on a main street in Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday Aug. 2, 2011. The image below, shows a still photograph of the same scene, also distributed by the Vilnius City Municipality, only the producer has been digitally removed. The area inside the red circle, in the image on top, (the circles were added by the AP), shows the television producer in a blue shirt. The area in the red circle in the image below shows where the producer has been removed. Zuokas acknowledged Tuesday Aug. 16, 2011 distributing the deliberately altered picture to The Associated Press and other news organizations, which was intended to dramatize his anti-parking campaign, an image that then was published in newspapers around world.

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  • Mayor crushes illegally parked Mercedes with a tank in Vilnius, Lithuania

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

    Update August 17, 12:30 p.m. ET: This photograph was digitally altered removing a person that was on the armored personnel carrier. The photo was handed out by the mayor's office and distributed by The Associated Press and other news organizations. For a full explanation and to see both versions of the image read here.

    Vilnius City Municipality via AP

    Arturas Zuokas, the 43 year old mayor of Vilnius drives over a car parked illegally on a main street in Vilnius city center with a military vehicle, August 2, 2011. The mayor took the drastic action after becoming infuriated with motorists parking their luxury cars illegally around the city..

    The photograph just moved today, but you can read the story and watch the video on the crushing that happened yesterday here.

    The Mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, hops in an APC and runs over an illegally parked Mercedes in his Public Service Announcement to show he is cracking down on parking violators. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.

  • John Raoux / AP

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