Barney fumbles around for his single bullet

Sad commentary on the times.

April 30, 2010 at 3:02PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
FILE - In a  Sept. 6, 2007 file photo, Betty Lynn, who played Thelma Lou on "The Andy Griffith Show," pauses at a statue of Andy and Opie Taylor in Mount Airy, N.C. Lynn had her wallet stolen at a shopping center in Mount Airy, the birthplace of Andy Griffith, after moving to the area to avoid big city crime. The Mount Airy News reports that police arrested Shirley Walter Guynn, of Cana, Va. in the robbery. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
(AP/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

It's not an unusual story: someone tires of big city crime, and wants to move to a small town. Friends say she's got some strange idea she's a character in the Andy Griffith Show, looking for Mayberry - why, small towns have crime, too. Fiddlesticks, she says, and she moves. And gets robbed. Bonus: she was a character from the Andy Griffith Show. And the town? Mayberry:

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