When Washington Post editors send out a photographer to get the age-old “snow is falling” photo, a coatless man crossing the street with an ice cream cone in hand is not what you expect at all. That’s the shot Ricky Carioti got, which landed on the front page of the Post yesterday. So, naturally, people were curious and amused and, then of course, as what follows in our digitally mad world, they got creative, photoshopping the guy onto nonsensical backdrops.

The WaPo’s Story Lab blog got to the bottom of it: 25-year-old lawyer Zach Burroughs just wanted some ice cream.

Source: Washington Post/Story Lab