Girl posts cash pile image on Facebook, house gets robbed within hours (Be careful ...kids)

geeky-gadgets.com ^ | Monday 28th May 2012 4:50 pm | By Conner Flynn

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There are a few things that you should not announce online. Don’t tell them when you are going on vacation and leaving your house unattended and just like in any city, don’t go flashing a wad of cash around. A home in Australia was robbed last week by two masked men, a few hours after an image of cash appeared on Facebook. posted by a 17-year-old girl who was helping count her grandmother’s savings.

The robbers quickly figured out where the house was located and traveled there to steal the money. The image was posted at 4pm on Thursday, May 24. By 11:30pm the two masked men arrived with a knife and wooden club. They forced their way into the house, but the girl was no longer there. A 58-year-old man, a woman of 47, and a boy of 14 were home, so the men left with only a small amount of money they found by searching the home.

The police are trying to find the thieves. Do NOT show off cash on Facebook. This could have ended with someone dead.

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[a fool in paradise]

Just because newspapers normally KNOWINGLY run “friend of a friend” urban legends does not mean that they don’t still make good copy.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Some digital cameras geo-tag photos by default. It’s a cautious person who goes to their camera (and camera phone) setting and makes sure geo-tagging is disabled.

[skinkinthegrass]

blond?... sorry. :-D

[bmwcyle]

ping

[cicero2k]

Advice to my daughters: appear poorer than you are. It took them a while to grasp, but it is a lesson that has served them well.

[freedomlover]

Not to say that the posting wasn’t dumb, but who’s to say the posting was even seen by the robbers? If she’s stupid enough to post it on Facebook she’s stupid enough to blab it other ways.

[ßuddaßudd]

Did those Aussies pay US tax on that US money yet?
Eric Holder need to investigate...
F U B O

[ltc8k6]

Not allowed to defend yourself in Australia...

[GraceG]

Hmm, I may have to give up my hobby of placing a “forclosure” sign in my front yard and waiting around all weekend in my house with the lights off with a bottle of jack in one hand any my 45 in the other....

I may have to start posting pics on facebook with me and piles of cash and multiple postings on how much I hate guns and don’t own a gun.....

[Vigilanteman]

I once posted a picture of wildwood flowers allegedly growing in my backyard on my Facebook page hoping the drug warriors would come and dig up a weedy backyard which really needed roto-tilling.

Didn't work. Had to do it myself.

[KarlInOhio]

thinking of doing the same thing ... move the vehicle ... sneak back in ... wait with ample authority.

Hunting over bait is generally considered unsporting. And when the cops show up, don't call the couch you hide behind the "thug blind".

[freedomlover]

“Some digital cameras geo-tag photos by default. It’s a cautious person who goes to their camera (and camera phone) setting and makes sure geo-tagging is disabled.”

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How would that show up? I saved the pic (a JPG) and looked at its details by right clicking on it under Win7 and it showed the size and dimensions but little more. I didnt see an empty geo-tag field.

Not disputing you just curious.
thx
FR

[Vigilanteman]

LOL! Great hobby. Reminds me of these guys:

You could do them one better by erecting a effigy pole in their front yard and displaying the scalps which you took.

[no-to-illegals]

Love the Australian people. Have never underestimated them in a fight.

[angcat]

Stupid people I had a friend post her daughters graduation gift a diamond watch. I was shocked that she would do this considering they come from a big city.

[tflabo]

Ahhh yes stealing from old ladies-—sure to earn one a few rungs down the ladder where the fire of hades is a helluva lot hotter reward.

[Fido969]

“Kansas City roll”?

[no-to-illegals]

unsporting

yep, but a good way to pass the day when there is no bag limit once the door is caved in.

[cripplecreek]

I trapped a coon the other day and transported him back to his own neighborhood.