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Thief Posts His Photo To Facebook Victim's Account

Posted by samzenpus on from the criminal-status-update dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Just more extreme by Johnny5000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  2. Re:Guess we'll see if Darwin was right by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:Just more extreme by shadowrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Brilliant! Now they just have to find the guy who took the laptop, get the laptop back, and dust it for prints!