Dumb burglar or cops?

[Gob]

It's bad enough to return home to find a burglar has ransacked your house and stolen many treasured belongings.


For the thief to then post a picture of himself on your Facebook page - while wearing your winter jacket and waving a wad of your cash - is brazen in the extreme.
But that's exactly what happened to Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher and his family last week.

The home burgled belonged to Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher. It was his son's laptop that got stolen
At some point between 10am and 12.45pm last Friday, a burglar forced his way into Mr Fisher's Washington, D.C. property by kicking in a door. He then proceeded to steal items including a laptop, iPod and cash from Mr Fisher's 15-year-old son.

Which is when the thief felt compelled to rub salt into the wound.
Mr Fisher writes: 'He opened my son's computer, took a photo of himself sneering as he pointed to the cash lifted from my son's desk, and then went on my son's Facebook account and posted the picture for 400 teenagers to see.



'In the picture, the man is wearing my new winter coat, the one that was stolen right out of the Macy's box it had just arrived in.'
One police officer attending the crime scene even commented: 'I've seen a lot, but this is the most stupid criminal I've ever seen.'

Although the photo shows the burglar wearing his newly-acquired coat with the hood pulled up, the full frontal shot clearly shows the burglar's face.
So clear, that the reporter thought that would be the end of the matter and detectives would make an arrest almost immediately.
Astonishingly, despite the seemingly watertight nature of the case, police have yet to arrest the suspect.

Mr Fisher explained: 'Two officers confided that they and their colleagues rarely press hard on burglary cases because the courts almost always let thieves go with nothing more than probation.
'Maybe that's why four days after we handed over the photo, we were still waiting to hear from the detective assigned to the case.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z18DydhQ1T

[loCAtek]

The detective is probably still pouring over the thousands of mugshots of young black men in Washington DC. Now, if this burglar has no prior criminal record; goodbye coat and cash!

[oldr_n_wsr]

If that happened to me I would post on the facebook page, "you better not let me find you because you will be dead, and I have your picture and I am looking for you". "Oh, and the laptop has a GPS in it".

[Gob]

"Imma be chillin with my mutha mutha crew
imma be makin all them deals you wanna do (hah)
imma be up in that maylist flicks, doin 100 flips
and imma be, sippin on drinks cause
imma be shakin my hips,
you gon be lickin your lips
imma be takin them pics,
lookin all fly and shooting the shit outa you"

[oldr_n_wsr]

lookin all fly and shooting the shit outa you"

Not if I shoot you first and holding your pistol sideways is a sure way to miss me, and I can almost guarantee I won't miss you

[Gob]

I was thinking more along the lines that the guy who was stolen off should reply in a language, on face book, the perp could understand, hence my use of the "poetry" above.

[loCAtek]

Psst, that's chick lingo, Gob!

"Shooting the shit" is chattin' it up, friendly like.

[Sean]

I would have thought that shooting the shit with somebody is a tad different to shooting the shit "outa" somebody...

[loCAtek]

In that case, it can mean 'out drink the other' but it has nothing to do with guns or violence on anyone.

[Sean]

Really?

[loCAtek]

really