# Wally Heads South!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 31, 2000, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wally-heads-south/20992 "2000-05-31T11:27:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wally-heads-south/20992/1 "2000-05-31T11:27:09Z")

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WallyM7 said:

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> I think everyone will agree that I could have a successful career as a criminal.
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> Officer: Would you describe the robber, please?
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> Victim: He was…umm…you know…like…ordinary.
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> Officer: What was he wearing?
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> Victim: I don’t know. A shirt, I think. And maybe pants of some sort.

Yesterday on NPR there was a report about a criminal in Indiana. Despite several photos, police have been unable to pick him up. He’s so ordinary looking, people don’t even notice him.

More than a coincidence!

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**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wally-heads-south/20992/2 "2000-05-31T11:41:58Z")

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I was nowhere near Indiana.

At the time in question, I was sticking up a blind news vendor in Buffalo.

He couldn’t give a good description either.

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**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wally-heads-south/20992/3 "2000-05-31T22:33:55Z")

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Buffalo, NY:

Blind news vendor is robbed. Quote from vendor’s police report: “Well, I couldn’t see anything, but I do remember the overpowering smell of port and Old Spice on the burglar.”

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**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2000, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wally-heads-south/20992/4 "2000-06-01T02:07:52Z")

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Other witnesses interviewed said:

“It was a guy, I’m pretty sure.”

“He seemed, I dunno, kinda familiar.”

“I think he had a mustache. Some kind of hair, anyway.”