Post smug vacation statuses on Facebook, get your house burgled

Opportunity, and those pictures of your feet on a beach, creates desire.

by Casey Johnston
Ars Technica
June 25 2012

Maybe think twice before bragging about your vacation on Facebook, 
complete with sun-and-sand photos, lest your shadier friends or 
members of the general public decide to burgle your house. Two 
Facebook users in Anderson County, South Carolina were arrested 
Sunday for using Facebook to find out which of their friends were out 
of town so they could rob "several" of the empty houses over the 
course of two months, according to WFMY News.

39-year-old Candace Landreth and 44-year-old Robert Landreth Jr. 
allegedly used Facebook to see which of their friends were out of 
town. If a post indicated a Facebook friend wasn't home, the two 
broke into that friend's house and liberated some of their belongings.

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/post-smug-vacation-statuses-on-facebook-get-your-house-burgled/

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