Rodney Knight plead guilty to second degree burglary this past week in Washington, D.C. He was caught because he posted pictures of himself with his loot on his victim's Facebook wall:
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Knight broke in to the Northwest home of Washington Post writer Marc Fisher in December, police said. He helped himself to a number of items, including two laptop computers, a new winter coat and about $400 in cash.
Before leaving the scene of the crime, he put on the winter coat and posed with the cash for a photo he took of himself. He then posted his “loot” photo on Fisher’s son’s Facebook page, the writer said.
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Stupidity inclines people to crime, but also assures that they will be caught. Nice symmetry.
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How would they find him just based on a picture? Tons of people look like this guy.
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@thedude, you should Google "Bernard Madoff" some day.
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I sometimes wonder how much you could get away with if someone genuinely smart went into crime.
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Seriously? What an idiot. He was asking to get caught.
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