I usually don’t look much at people, and I never bothered looking closely at the pictures of the guy in the first place. No way I’d recognize him.
It’d be about two years salary for a fast food worker here.
That’s a pretty uninformed thing to say.
Of course $50,000 isn’t “quit your job, buy a house, live in luxury” money.
But that is more than a McDonalds worker makes in two years in PA. You really don’t think someone receiving a payment of more than two years worth their annual salary will have their life changed for the better? Maybe now they don’t have to worry every single month about having enough to cover rent or necessities.
The average yearly salary for the entire US population is around $59,000 so if you make so much that $50,000 will mean nothing to you, congrats you are one of a very small percentage but most Americans are not in the same boat as you.
If I saw the guy in a McDonalds, I’d assume it was a guy who just happens to look like the killer dude. As such I’d approach him and ask if he’d pose for a selfie with me and maybe get his autograph.
Associated Press says he was identified by another customer.
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Not in a million years. The photos online just looked to me like “random guy” and there’s zero chance I’d have connected that to a real life person.
That’s me, too. There have been times I’ve been browsing in the produce section at my usual grocery store and my sister, who I’ve only known for 69 years! who lives in the neighboring town and I see at least weekly, will say to me, “Oh, am I on the ignore list today?”
Just joking, she knows all about my problem with recognizing faces. But, honestly, the two of us could be side by side, choosing tomatoes or whatever for a few minutes, and I won’t know it’s her until she speaks. (I’m much better at recognizing voices.)
I thought I had also read that, so thanks for clarifying that it perhaps wasn’t an employee.
The suspect was also working on a laptop, meaning that the fellow customer would have had ample time to study his face. Although, he (the suspect) was wearing a medical mask, which would certainly complicate the recognition.
But if I’m eating my sandwich, drinking my beverage, and (likely) looking at my phone, I’m not gonna give another customer a second glance.
I’m another person who basically can’t recognize faces. So, nope. I would not have recognized him.
Nope. If this guy had been right in front of me, I wouldn’t have recognized him.
I would probably not recognize a guy from a blurry CCTV screen capture of at a weird angle of a guy in a hood who sort of looks like James Franco.
I’ve been a minimum wage worker, and that’s a pretty shitty description with a heap of assumptions. Plenty of people work a minimal wage shift, enjoy interacting with customers and are capable of paying attention to their surroundings.
I wouldn’t, but this shows the impossibility of “disappearing” in any area of significant population once your face is out there.
Somebody will be following the case fervently, dreaming of catching the perpetrator, who is really good at recognizing faces. And eventually you will run across that person and get called in.
Honestly, sitting in any place with any sort of crowd (like a McDonald’s) for an extended period of time is a very bad idea if you are on the run and you know your face is public information. Probably a bad idea to keep the gun too…
I wouldn’t recognize James Franco.
Huh. And here I thought you had to be a 40+ male to be invisible.
I’d probably think he’s Raul Julia, who I know is long dead.
(I used to misidentify a bunch of actors as Raul Julia)
no, i wouldn’t have recognized him. i’m not that good at it.
i have worked with people who not only would recognize someone they saw once a year or so ago; but would also remember what they got the last time they were at the establishment.
I’m really bad at facial recognition but I know people who can pick any familiar face out of a crowd and could likely say that simple picture looked like somebody they’d seen before.
I’m a little surprised the cops didn’t get flooded with calls from people who thought he looked like someone they’ve seen before but then again people don’t hate this guy. If you’re not an insurance executive you’re not worried about him killing you, and you won’t be eager to turn in someone you know, or aren’t really positive about.
I highly doubt if I were a McDonald’s worker I would have recognized him, and even if I thought “hmmmm”, I wouldn’t have had the confidence to call the police and risk the wrath of a possibly falsely-accused man or embarrassing myself.
As pointed out by several people in several threads, cops from coast to coast probably were flooded with calls. We only hear about the one call that paid off.