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Common Sense Lesson #141
I love this story. Last Tuesday, a bank was robbed in Scranton, Pennsylvania (home of “The Office’s” Dunder-Mifflin). The FBI was told that the robbery suspect, 24-year-old Mark Dennis, had orange-hair. So the feds made a logical leap-of-faith and started looking in salons. And sure enough, they found Dennis at a salon in Ohio, likely trying to change that stand-out hair color. Said a Philadelphia FBI agent involved with the investigation: “Maybe in a big city you can get away with walking around with orange hair, but in a smaller town you probably stand out.”
So today’s lesson is this - if you’re going to rob a bank (or commit any crime with potential witnesses, for that matter), you might just want to think about covering up any particularly identifying characteristics. Like, say, orange hair.
