Facebook Can Keep You Out of Jail
Yesterday, Mashable ran a post entitled "ALIBI: Facebook Status Update Saves Teen from Jail."
Here's the story:
"Nineteen-year-old Rodney Bradford’s Facebook update at 11:49a.m. on October 17 was accepted as a suitable alibi after he was arrested in connection with a mugging in Brooklyn. The district attorney subpoenaed Facebook, who verified that the status update was created from a computer at the address of Mr. Bradford’s father in Harlem, where the accused indicated he had been at the time of the robbery.
After Facebook’s location confirmation, the charges against Bradford were dropped."
Well, Tosh.0 did a little digging and we were able to obtain an exclusive screengrab of the Facebook status update that got young Rodney off the hook.
Here it is:
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