Pass the syrup -- this lucky guy is eating breakfast at home instead of on Rikers Island.Posted on 11/12/2009 4:58:20 AM PST by Pharmboy
Pass the syrup -- this lucky guy is eating breakfast at home instead of on Rikers Island.
A Brooklyn teen's playful Facebook message to his pregnant girlfriend about pancakes sprung him from jail and helped him avoid years in prison for a holdup he didn't commit.
Prosecutors dropped a robbery charge against Rodney Bradford, 19, after learning his Facebook account status had been updated with the inside joke "WHERE MY IHOP?" from a computer in his dad's Harlem apartment one minute before an Oct. 17 stickup of two men in Brooklyn's Farragut Houses.
"They had me on Rikers Island for 12 days. It was really miserable," Bradford told The Post last night.
"If it wasn't for Facebook I'd still be on Rikers Island."
His joyful stepmom, Ernestine Bradford, agreed, saying. "Facebook saved my son," she said. "Normally, we yell at our kids, 'Oh, you're on the computer!" It's completely different. If it wasn't for Facebook, my son wouldn't be here."
The electronic fingerprints from Bradford's Facebook posting backed up multiple witnesses who said he was at his dad's home that day, and knocked down a victim's claim that he recognized one of the robbers as Bradford, who lives in Farragut Houses.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Facebook ping...
Thank God for Facebook!!!!!!!!!!!! I absolutely love it. It is my second most visited website after Free Republic.
If he stayed logged onto Facebook on the computer, anyone in his family could have posted the status update... Just saying...
So, all I need do is to write a program that will post to facebook at a time I specify, and I have a alibi for anything?
Good for him. 12 days in Rikers! That’s no picnic. No way.
Twice in the past few weeks FACEBOOK has been identified by my ISP as the source of a virus sent to me.
Now my account is deactivated and will stay that way.
Or anybody with the password.
That said, false (even though honest) eyewitness identification is a huge problem.
On average, eyewitness evidence is the least accurate variety, although most people think the opposite.
Yeah...I thought of that, but there were a few witnesses that put him at dad’s apartment and then he realized that he posted. The timestamp freed him, and it strains credulity that this kid would have someone post for him while he tried to rob someone. Possible, but highly doubtful...
Probably some crazy friend you have or something :)
LOL....ex friend
I know that to be the case. Once, many years ago I was a “perp” for a college instructors class in criminology. I walked into his class disrupting it and “stole” his briefcase. You couldn’t have picked me out of a line up with any of the discriptions that the police wannabees taking the class gave.
Oh come ON!
Admit it; the NYC cops are lazy slugs, and after a “witness” ID’ed this kid, they stopped investigating. What you wanna bet that the “witness” had a grudge against the kid?
Just sayin’....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.