Photo leads family to missing Greece {New York} man
Last edited Tue Jan 7, 2014, 10:27 AM - Edit history (3)
Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
David Andreatta, ROC 6:46 a.m. EST January 6, 2014
Nicholas A. Simmons, 20, was last seen leaving home on Cider Creek Lane on New Year's Day.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. For one local family, it was the answer to a thousand prayers.
Nicholas A. Simmons, a 20-year-old Greece resident who had been missing since New Year's Day, was found in Washington, D.C., on Sunday after a photograph of him serendipitously appeared in the Democrat and Chronicle and intensified an ongoing search by family and police.
The photo was published by USA Today for local editions of Gannett newspapers and was taken by an Associated Press photographer. The picture ran with a story on cold weather sweeping across the country and depicted a purported homeless man identified only as "Nick" wrapped in a blanket and warming himself on a steam grate on the street just blocks from the U.S. Capitol on Saturday.
Read more: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/2014/01/05/family-says-photo-is-missing-greece-man-/4328423/
Hat tip: DCist.com
http://dcist.com/2014/01/missing_new_york_man_photographed_i.php#photo-1
I walked over to the National Gallery of Art after work on January 2. Every time my backpack was put through the scanner, though, I'd see another electronic device inside. As a result, I was too late to get inside. I told the scanner operator that I'd be back later, as there was no exhibit about to close that I needed to see. I left the building and walked west on Pennsylvania Avenue to my bus stop. That path took me past the Federal Trade Commission building. (That's the building that John Mica wants transferred to the National Gallery of Art.) I was on the other side of the building from that grate. Simmons was probably not there yet.
I edited the title to clarify that the "Greece" in the title is Greece, New York, a suburb of Rochester.
Imagine that. There are dozens of heating grates in a half-mile radius of the one where Simmons was. Each is occupied by one or more individuals. The photographer could have chosen any of those people, at any of those grates. The article might have been picked up by the Rochester newspaper, or it might not.
What are the odds?
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Now 'Nikolas Simionakas'? That sounds Greek.
Glad they found him... 
