RICHARD C. REID UPDATE: His mom is shocked. Link from Drudge. I'd say the oddest thing about Richard C. Reid so far is that his name is, in fact, Richard C. Reid, and that he is British and therefore not Sri Lankan in the least. I mean, I for one thought that we wouldn't be calling him "Reid" for long. The old cliche about not judging books by covers probably applies here. I can't think of any shoe cliches.