Even though social networks allow us to stay connected maybe you will think twice about updating your friends about your vacation. If a creep knows you not home they may take advantage and invade your home. That is exactly what Candace Landreth and Robert Landreth Jr did for two months! They went on a crime spree based on Facebook friends who were on vacation. Hit the jump for details on the Facebook crime spree.
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.
But Facebook giveth and Facebook taketh away: according to WFMY, the cops identified the miscreants Landreth by posting surveillance photos to their own Facebook page and letting followers identify them. In the photos, the Landreths were selling the goods they had allegedly removed from vacationers’ homes.
Posting out-of-town statuses is definitely a vacationing no-no, right up there with letting mail pile up in your mailbox or leaving your front door wide open. We’d note that even if your address isn’t listed on Facebook, there are still, against all odds, paper phone books. If you must share your vacation with your Facebook, the lesson is this: post your pictures and joyous status updates after you get back. All that said, “my 60-inch Pioneer plasma TV was stolen while I was vacationing in the French Riviera; I bought two more in case of emergency” is kind of the perfect humble brag.
