QuoteA Carroll County, Va., man was being held in the Surry County Jail Wednesday for allegedly robbing the actress who played Thelma Lou on "The Andy Griffith Show" earlier this week.
Betty Lou Lynn, 83, whose character Thelma Lou was the girlfriend of Deputy Barney Fife on the long-running series, said in a 2008 interview that she moved to Mount Airy the year before to get away from crime-infested Los Angeles after living there for decades.
Then this past Sunday afternoon while at New Market Crossing Shopping Center on Independence Boulevard, the retired actress was victimized by a crime here.
A man grabbed Lynn's wallet from her hands at the shopping center just before 4 p.m. and fled. The wallet contained $130, according to a Mount Airy Police Department report.
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Fife's On it boss!
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Andy breaking the news to Barney about Thelma
It was probably Earnest T Bass ;D
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I know that it was probably somewhat disturbing to be robbed, momentarily, but to slightly hint that it was ironic that she moved from LA and and found crime is like saying that someone moved from the shore to avoid hurricanes and stepped in a mud-puddle.
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Citizen's arrest...citizen's arrest!!!
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