No, it's not me in the court log...

Today I received an e-mail from a friend who told me that another Jim Heffernan (a good 10 years younger with a different middle initial... and probably a bit more of a trouble maker than me) was in the court log in Friday's Duluth News Tribune for an open bottle charge. The friend told me that lots of folks working at the DNT who don't know me well think it's me. I was reminded of a similar circumstance when a number of years ago perhaps the same guy was in the paper for beating his wife or something terrible like that and my wife was (eventually) told by a few of her colleagues at her work that they all thought it was me. She was told that each time they saw her, they felt sorry for what she had to endure at home. She is retired now but worked as a school social worker and it made the whole story more exciting for those folks. When the truth came out, they explained that their whole team of teachers at that one building thought it was me and had a scenario concocted about the social worker who helped others but had to go home to an even more awful situation. They all got some chuckles over it later but, golly.... here I am this "mature" guy who lives a pretty "regular" life and to think I have this aura of  renegade  geezer surrounding me. So– to set the record straight–it's not me in the court log, I promise!