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Thief Posts His Photo To Facebook Victim's Account
An anonymous reader writes "Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher discovered his house had been burgled; money, a winter coat, an iPod and his son's laptop were stolen. Imagine his surprise when Facebook friends of his 15-year-old son reported that a photo of the apparent thief, wearing Fisher's coat and holding a wad of notes, had been uploaded to his son's Facebook account. How addicted do you have to be to a social network to post a status update and upload your photo *while* you're burgling someone's house?"
People who think this is stupid need to get real. This guy won't get caught. The cops aren't out on main street screening for his face. Unless he leaves his full name, birthday and SSN, the police aren't going to act on anything else. Burglary is just so low on the pecking order that they're basically ignored. Even the detectives "assigned" to this case probably have 5-6 other cases to work on.
Burglary is just so low on the pecking order that they're basically ignored. Even the detectives "assigned" to this case probably have 5-6 other cases to work on.
Usually this is the case. There's generally not a whole lot of leads in a burglary case, so a detective might not put a lot of effort into trying to solve a hopeless case.
However, a burglar doing something this stupid, leaving behind such a damning piece of evidence, that's the kind of case a detective would probably want to put a little effort into solving.
The libertarian solution to the failures of capitalism is to apply more capitalism til the failures are fixed.
If this guy manages to successfully breed then Darwin might have been wrong but I think it also would weigh against "intelligent design".
This fool will outbreed you. And make you pay for it.
This fool will outbreed you. And make you pay for it.
And that, my friends, is the welfare state in a nutshell.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
From the fine article:
The good news, of course, is that no one was hurt, and virtually everything the burglar took is replaceable. One exception: On my son's computer, but never backed up, was one of the greatest documents ever, something he would have cherished all his life. He had meticulously kept a running list of every movie he had ever seen, hundreds and hundreds, with his comments on each. It's gone -- a reminder of the new reality that computers and Facebook have created, a world in which a document meant to last a lifetime can disappear in an instant, and a photograph meant as an impulsive gloat lives forever.
How is it that someone has a laptop where important files (files other than the OS and apps that can be re-installed from original media) aren't backed-up to removable media or a service like Carbonite, Mozy, etc.? This isn't 1995 when "backup" meant inserting and removing multiple 1.44MB floppies.
Wouldn't this be an assignment for Anonymous?
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Stealing used to be a hanging offense, now it is "meh". And people wonder why society has gone to hell.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
It's obvious he's posing. This is not a "caught in action" shot. Nor is it likely that someone set up a routine to capture a burglar and upload the picture to their son's facebook.
Your theory has a few holes.
The likely explanation is greed, avarice, idiocy, and theft roll in together and stupidity comes along for the ride.
Knee-jerk reactions leading to hanging people for simple theft would be an indicator, to me, that society has truly gone to hell.
They also use to think the world was flat, and there were dragons past the edges. Sometimes changing the way a society thinks over time is not a bad thing.
"But this one goes to 11!"