Under a Gibbous Moon

Well, there’s more to it then that. According to CNN, Rodney Bradford was arrested for an armed mugging in the city of New York. He claimed to be innocent and his father said that he had been with him at his place at the time.

The DA wasn’t buying it until they showed him Bradford’s Facebook status update that went thusly:

On the phone with this fat chick… where my IHOP.

The fat chick in question was his pregnant girlfriend who was upset about missing out on a trip to the International House of Pancakes. With the time stamp and IP address obtained from Facebook, they were able to show that Bradford was across town approximately one minute before the robbery took place. On this evidence, he was released from jail.

No word as to whether or not he survived his girlfriends wrath.

The moral of this story? Even those banal, embarrassing or downright stupid Facebook posts could save you one day.

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