Facebook could save your life!
by The PerfessorTags: FaceBook
We’ve spoken about this before, about people who are addicted to Facebook (all you Farmville freaks!), and while there are those of us who think that there is something truly wrong with those of you (us) who feel the need to plugged into the 'net for 24/7, there just might be an up side to this sort of addiction.
Consider the case of one Rodney Bradford, 19, who’s life was (quite literally) saved by Facebook. Doubt us? You shouldn’t. Turns out that his Facebook status plea from a morning from a couple of days ago demanding the immediate consumption of one of the basic food groups every human being needs to properly function in the morning (pancakes), proved to be his alibi.
Rodney was arrested on October 18 as a suspect in two crimes. He declared himself innocent and Robert Reuland—his defense lawyer—found the key to free him: "Where's my pancakes?"
That seemingly inconsequential Facebook status update proved crucial when the Californian company confirmed that someone wrote it from his father’s Harlem apartment computer, using Rodney’s user and password at around the time of the alleged crime: Saturday October 17, 11:49am.
Needless to say this alibi of Rodney’s was backed up by Rodney’s father and stepmother, who declared he was at their Harlem home at the time.
On the other side of that self-same coin, is another 19-year old man, this one from Pennsylvania, who was actually nabbed because of his Facebook obsession, after he forget to log out of his Facebook account at the scene of the crime.
Why the hell would someone stop to check Facebook on a computer owned by the person you robbing? Facebook addiction is a serious problem folks. Mark my words—its only a matter of time before some idiot felon gives a play-by-play tweet session of a crime in progress. Hell, it's probably already happened. [Mashable]
Apparently Forest Gump’s mom was right; stupid is as stupid does.
The Perfessor