Well, good luck on getting any police cooperation with your investigation in the future:
A private detective hired by the family of a missing Indiana University student has made unflattering comments about Bloomington's police chief, calling him a "Gomer Pyle."
Former New York City police detective Richard "Bo" Dietl told the hosts of "Good Day New York" that 20-year-old Lauren Spierer's family has hired him to investigate her June disappearance.
He was then asked about possible friction between local police and big city private investigators.
Dietl replied that he felt like he "was talking to Gomer Pyle" when he spoke to Chief Mike Diekhoff, comparing the chief to the naive, small-town character Jim Nabors portrayed on two television shows in the 1960s.
The detective seems a little mixed up. He got the place right if he wanted to convey the sense of Hicktown, USA, but he picked the wrong character. Gomer Pyle? Any good analogist knows it should have been "I felt like I was talking to Barney Fife."
What a Maxwell Smart.
