This picture got me in a world of trouble

Shopping in the one big grocery store in Athens, Ohio, I saw this scene and made a quick picture. Because changes at the store cause a lot of local conversation, I put it up for possible use in the newspaper, and it was used. I was a little concerned that people would be horrified by the dirt that had accumulated under the row of shelves, but no: the head of the local convention and visitors agency wrote a poison-pen email to the boss of the company that owns the paper, saying that people would be kept from visiting our area because of the workman's backside showing a little and that I should be got rid of. A week later, the boss of the company decided that the paper couldn't afford photographs and that the reporters would henceforth illustrate the paper via their telephones. And I was gone.