University of Florida student Zachary Garcia was in the midst of a normal vanity Googling when he stumbled upon his drivers licence photo, released in connection with a botched robbery-turned-homicide. The mixup? The accused individual was Zachery Garcia – with an E – not Zachary. So close! And yet so, so very importantly far.
“I was just very shocked to find my picture and the article saying that I was convicted of a felony murder charge,” Zachary (again, spelled with an A, not an E!) commented, surprisingly calmly. “Everybody makes mistakes. I work at Publix and I might get somebody’s sub (order) wrong.” That is probably the most mature and startlingly casual reaction to being wrongfully accused of a felony homicide in criminal history. [WTSP via Fark]
Tomas
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 1:47 PMGotta love Name doppelgangers, the US Dept of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control has me pinned as one of the heads of FARC – the Columbian rebels. As you can imagine, Ebay and Paypal were told to ban me immediately and permanently.
red t-rex
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 4:13 PMOne of my namesakes was found chopped up in a barrel while another was involved in the Enron scandal