Posted on 12/22/2011 4:37:12 AM PST by Glenn
The four young friends mugged for the camera, holding fistfuls of cash, candy and cigarettes, then posted the photos on Facebook for all to see.
Just one more example of a generation hooked on social media.
Except there was a problem.
Police said the teens stole the hefty loot -- worth more than $9,000 -- only an hour earlier from Elliott's Town Market, where the surveillance footage of them running through the closed store seemed damning enough.
Detectives on Wednesday said they had charged three of the juveniles -- two 14-year-olds and a 17-year-old -- and were searching for a fourth, 18-year-old Isaiah Cutler, in whose bedroom they snapped the photos and on whose Facebook page they smugly posted them.
"I've not seen anything like this in my 18 years," burglary Detective Valerie Milie said. "People post things on Facebook that they shouldn't, and once it's out there, it's out there."
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
They will get probation.Their Parents will buy off the store owners, and they will be heroes to their peers.
Pittsburgh’s Amish community....up to no good as usual.
Not a bad haul for a couple kids. $8000+ in cash is more than most bank robbers get away with.
Here’s another fun activity for kids!
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/teens-trashing-stores-viral-trend-15204414
-——you may snooker your parents, ———
You assume facts not in evidence.
Parents implies a mother and a father. For sure there is no acting father. The grandmother is filling both roles since the mother abandoned her role when she turned all the WIC checks to her mother years ago
Just thinning the herd
Isn’t that what Facebook is for?
Here’s where I think we should take a page from Singapore and publicly cane the little twits.
I want to see the footage of them “running through the closed door”.
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