Posted on 10/03/2009 7:23:17 PM PDT by Saije
The 26 year old, who has not been named, was traced by detectives after the owner of the house reported the crime.
Officers noticed the computer was still on and when the 52 year old owner touched the keyboard, the social network site's homepage flashed up.
The man, from Albano Laziale near Rome told police he was not a member, and they quickly realised the last person to use the computer had been the burglar.
He had written several messages on his wall - but not revealed he was carrying out a crime - and police were quickly able to trace him and recover cash and jewellery that had been taken.
Major Ivo Di Blasio, of the carabinieri paramilitary police, said:"He was tempted to log on during the break in and it led to his arrest - it was a silly mistake to make and we were onto him very quickly.
"The owner of the house had left the computer on and when the Facebook site flashed up on the screen we had the name of the burglar and we simply went to his house and arrested him, as well as recovering the goods.
"He did not expect us at all and was very surprised when we told him how we had tracked him down. He has a history of break-ins and will now go before a judge."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Epic fail.
This also happened her in the US recently, IIRC.
Well he had to post what he was up too and Epic Fail only belongs to Obama
Italian........... ‘nuff said.
(Hey, I’m Italian & Puerto Rican, okay? I know these things.....)
Mmmmm.... I'm in the mood for Calamari now...
Saije wrote:
Why would a burglar want to hang around any longer than he has to much less get on Facebook. Criminal mastermind.
Probably updating his status. Let all his friends know what he’s doing and where he is.
buccaneer81 wrote:
This also happened her in the US recently, IIRC.
Might have. I know we had some police officers serving a search warrant down here in Florida who took some time off to play a few games of Bowling on the drug suspects WII while they were searching his house.
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I hope all his Facebook friends give him a "thumbs down". Doofus!!!
I saw that. The cops were there for several hours.
Ahem! :-)
Rocket Scientist material ?
Obama cabinet material.
IT czar?
Man - the Darwin Nomination List keeps getting longer and longer ...
When I lived in NM a guy robbed the local bank with a note written on the back of a deposit slip.
It was from his personalized checkbook.
2009, the year “Epic Fail” entered the public consciousness.
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