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Robbery Suspect Cleared By Facebook Alibi

Posted by Soulskill on from the your-computer-is-broadcasting-an-ip-address dept.

postermmxvicom writes "Rodney Bradford has been cleared of robbery charges because of a Facebook update. The defense was able to prove that the update was made from his father's house, 13 miles away from the crime committed one minute earlier. Lawyer John G. Browning said, 'This is the first case that I’m aware of in which a Facebook update has been used as alibi evidence. We are going to see more of that because of how prevalent social networking has become.' Surely, this must be media hype, since it would not be a difficult alibi to fake."

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  1. Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    $ at now + 30 minutes
    at> curl -d 'status=lol watching tv' http://www.facebook.com
    at> <EOT>
    job 1 at 2009-11-14 15:36

    Now, who to murder first?

    1. Re:Awesome! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      "WHO to murder first"? Your grammar teacher.

    2. Re:Awesome! by Shatrat · · Score: 4, Funny

      "WHO to murder first"? Your grammar teacher.

      Well that appears to be you, so start writing your will.

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  2. Facebook status: by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not robbing

  3. Re:Sweet! by d3ac0n · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is /. We don't DO "lower tech" solutions here bub.

    ;)

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  4. There's an app for that by Powercntrl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Say you want to go burglarize someone's house, but you need to make it appear that you're posting on Facebook from your parents' basement? Well there's an app for that too!

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    1. Re:There's an app for that by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wave phone in officer's face. "These aren't the Droids you are looking for."

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  5. Don't Call Me... by balbord · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shirley!

    Sorry. I am so sorry. I'll leave now. So sorry.

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  6. Re:Sweet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only to keep my tinfoil hat together

  7. Slashdot Alibi... by qpawn · · Score: 4, Funny

    I could have been cleared, but I posted as an Anonymous Coward.

  8. Re:HTTP Proxy? VPN Tunnel? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nobody lies?

    If House taught me anything is that this guy was fucking a cow and the "witnesses" were well, witnessing it, which is why they are so adamant about his innocence.

    He then went home and hacked into facebook servers to modify the times-tamp of a post he had written 2 hours before to cover all his bovine fornication.

    Meanwhile the cow, angry because he didn't tell her when he was about to come, committed a robbery and tried to frame him.

  9. Re:Probably wasn't the case here.. by binarylarry · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now that was a real epic fail.

    That should have been:

    "lol, who modded such a retarded post up?"

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  10. Re:Probably wasn't the case here.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    murder causes DNA to fly all over the place

    Unless you're Dexter Morgan with a welding apron, a ton of saran wrap, and no hair net.