Color me crazy...

Why is it that I can go to a fly-by-night carnival and pay some drifter $7 to draw a caricature of myself that looks almost exactly like me yet I can barely identify any police sketch of a suspect as a human? Who’s drawing these things? Why does the sketch of a bank robber look more like a hobbit from the Lord of the Rings than like an ex-con? “Captain, I think we’ve identified our suspect, it is Frodo Baggins and we think he had help from his wizard buddy with the white beard.” Can’t the police find any competent artists? Along the same vein, have you ever noticed that some drunk guy in a bar can snap a photo in bad lighting with his cell phone camera and sell it to the Enquirer and it looks great blown up on the cover. Meanwhile when someone robs a bank and the security camera gets a shot; it is so blurry that even if the suspect’s own mother were to see it, she wouldn’t be able to identify it. I have a digital camera at home that cost around $200 that takes crystal clear pictures of faces from 100 yards and yet a back can’t seem to get a camera that can distinguish light from dark. All of the pictures from robberies look like they were taken with the same camera that took pictures of the Loch Ness Monster. I can sell my camera to a bank if they want it…

I really love when I see a picture with the black rectangle over people’s eyes so that their identity will be “protected.” If I ever saw anyone I knew with one of these rectangles, I’d say, “Hey, there’s Bob with a rectangle over his eyes!” How is that to stop anyone that you know from recognizing you? And if someone doesn’t know you, it doesn’t make a difference because they don’t know what you look like anyway…