Tuesday, November 9, 2010

A Sight for Sore Eyes... (Alter Ego)

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Have you ever been a witness?

Photofit is a technique used by the police for building up an accurate image of someone to fit a witness' description.

Photographs, rather than drawings, of individual features are used to construct an image of a suspect.

Below, you can see just a few of the Photofits issued by police in the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.




Personally, I can't believe my eyes at these disreputable discrepencies. So much for eye-witness accounts, I say!

Meanwhile, here in Tenerife, the police have issued yet another Photofit mugshot.

This man is, by all accounts, seriously deranged.

Do you trust your eyesight?

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16 comments:

JW10 said...

LOL Canary Islander.

I'm sure I've seen this fella before somewhere. I wonder what crime he has committed?

Dolores Doolittle said...

Brilliant, CI! and you raise serious causes for concern including the Deranged Quiff theory.
Tenerife evidently attracts Very Weird specimens...

Anonymous said...

Oh my. He looks scary. I'm worried for you. :)

Dolores Doolittle said...

(of course I should have said weirdos Flock to Tenerife, ho ho)!

(replenishing the garden birds' grease blobs brought it back to mind)

Expat said...

Well, since you're talking about eyes....

I had cararact surgery on Monday on the 'bad' eye. The not so bad eye is being done in early December.

It's absolutely amazing! A 10-minute operation and an implant and no more looking at the world through a fog. No more 16 point font on my computer. I can see the beautiful Fall colors in all their glory. I can read car number plates and road signs....

...and I can see all too clearly every bloody cobweb festooning my ceilings!!!!

Expat said...

Sorry, forgot to thank you for his blog. One of these days, I might start a blog myself, If I can find the courage. I shall call it Stuff & Nonsense.

(BTW, I an sending this from my whiz bang new computer, my previous one havintg committed suicide while I was out of town.)

JW10 said...

Hello Expat,

Congratulations on seeing the light. Glad to hear your operation was successful.

Looking forward to reading some blog posts from you. Attagirl. Go for it!

Canary Islander said...

Hello Everybody! Sorry I'm late responding (I've had a spot of car trouble and that has taken up most of my day. Grrrr!)

JW - the imposter is a well-known avatar thief, and he's on the run, like yours.

DD - Quibbling quips quickly quiver quirky quiffs.

Levent - the word "worry" comes from the Old English wyrgan, meaning "strangle". Now it's me that is worried!

Expat - brilliant news! And now you've got a whizz bang computer too! Happy blogging!

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Canary Islander said...

Talking about disguises, I've just remembered the time when I decided to dress up in my grannys clothes which included a hat with a dark facial veil. I tottered along the road just like she did, with walking stick in one hand and shopping basket in the other.

But I had a sudden attack of the giggles when a posh gentleman took me by the elbow and began helping me across a road junction. I still wonder what expression he had on his face when the "elderly lady" suddenly sprinted away at top speed!

Do any of you chaps have a similar story from childhood days to tell?

Jon in France said...

CI - I find that yellow chap very disturbing. Is it true that he stole all the loos from the police station? Do the local cops have anything to go on?

Canary Islander said...

Jon - police are going through the motions, aided by a stool pigeon. We can but hope he sings like a Canary.
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Dolores Doolittle said...

Expat - what joyous cataract news, and Hugely looking forward to you blogging on sparkly new PC!

CI - story from "childhood days"! That really surprised me - I was sure it was another jolly jape of your current times! (you youthful specimen)

Canary Islander said...

Dolores, I think you are getting confused by my Tweetie-Pie alter ego. If you compare the two quiffs, you'll see that I dress to the left!
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Dolores Doolittle said...

CI - I really wish there was a HUGE GUFFAW icon! Anyway, my guffaw was verily huge. (and I'll venture no further into Quiff territory)!

Canary Islander said...

Dolores - thou doth's quoth a huge guffaw!
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Dolores Doolittle said...

CI - surely thou art being modetht!