Schwimmer didn’t steal beer
British police are hunting for a shoplifter who bears a striking resemblance to Ross Geller, the character played by David Schwimmer on the TV show Friends. Facebook users noticed the similarity when police posted surveillance-camera footage of a man carrying a carton of cans from a restaurant in Blackpool, northwest England. The actor responded with a Twitter video that showed him scuttling furtively through a convenience store clutching a carton of beer. Schwimmer wrote: “Officers, I swear it wasn’t me. As you can see, I was in New York.” He wished police well with the investigation. Lancashire Police later confirmed that “David Schwimmer was in America on this date.”