'Muppet Police Sketch' Mocked by Internet Leads to Arrest. Who's Laughing Now?

shine.yahoo.com ^ | FRI JAN 31, 2014 | ELISE SOLE

[posterchild]

A police sketch that was publicly mocked for its resemblance to a Muppet actually helped nab a suspect earlier this week in Texas.

The drawing of the man was based on the description given to a forensic artist by two unidentified victims: a 77-year-old woman and her 57-year-old daughter, who were robbed at knifepoint in broad daylight.

[cripplecreek]

He does kinda look like the sketch.

[hecticskeptic]

He does kinda look like the sketch.

If the eyes had of been a bit further apart and he put a beard on the sketch, it actually would have been fairly close.

[vbmoneyspender]

If I were him, I would have struck a deal with the police to turn myself in return for them agreeing to destroy all copies of that sketch.

[BenLurkin]

It doesn’t look anything like him.

[a fool in paradise]

Can't say it is that accurate of a likeness. He looks like a man. (as the saying goes).

[null and void]

[a fool in paradise]

Another person of interest is relieved.

[cripplecreek]

Take a look at my profile page.

[Alas Babylon!]

Come on! A small narrow nose versus wide with large nostrils? A thin line of a mouth versus fat thick lips?

My thinking is they deliberately un-African-Americanized the drawing.

[Revolting cat!]

Isn’t that portrait a sufficient life sentence punishment?

[a fool in paradise]

Be on the lookout for Jot.

[dragnet2]

Eyes, nose and lips don’t even come close...

I think the story is BS.

[Sicon]

What kind of sketch “artist” draws human eyes like that?! Did the victims mention that they thought he might be an “illegal alien”, and the artist just went with “alien”?

[MeshugeMikey]

i was sorta thinking......along the lines of

[Ladysmith]

LOL!!

[MeshugeMikey]

the sketch ....

I dunno Ive long thought of myself as very visually acute perceptive type,and can see very little resemblance whatsoever between the drawing and the perp

perhaps its was drawn in shorthand!!

it looks like something joey biden might draw during an important meeting

[Kozak]

Meanwhile the Geniuses at U Minn want to remove identifying race in descriptions of suspects....

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/01/29/u-students-want-crime-alerts-to-avoid-using-racial-descriptions/#comments

[jiggyboy]

I’d say his lips and how they’re drawn are the two extremes of the scale.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Cue that “DUMM-DUMM-DA-DUMM DUMM - MANANANA! DUMM-DUMM DA DUMM” theme song from the Muppets.