Hilarious Facebook Status Update Becomes Alibi

By Jeff Cagle on November 24th, 2009

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You know you’ve seen status updates on Facebook like, “I am eating a taco,” or, “I am hanging out with my boo,” and thought, “Where’s the creativity?” Well now you have even more reason to get all Tracy Morgan with your updates and write something absurd: it could prove to be an alibi.

On Oct. 17, Rodney Bradford, a 19-year-old from Harlem, was at his father’s home on the phone with his pregnant girlfriend and updating his Facebook status to, “On the phone with this fat chick… where my IHOP” at 11:49 a.m. A minute later, two men were robbed in Brooklyn — about 12 miles away.

Apparently, Bradford is no angel and is facing charges for a 2008 robbery, and police must have figured he fit the profile. Bradford found out police were looking for him and turned himself in knowing he wasn’t their man. It went downhill from there as the victim picked him out of a lineup. He was charged with first-degree robbery and sent to the New York City jail.

Bradford’s father eventually found his son’s status update on Facebook and told his defense attorney about it, who realized that Bradford had a rock-solid alibi. They subpoenaed Facebook for the electronic records, proving the update came from Bradford’s father’s home in Harlem and got the district attorney to drop the case.

The lesson from all this? Well, I guess you could take away that you shouldn’t rob people in the first place, and that way the police won’t think of you as a perfect suspect anytime it happens. But no, you should have learned to always make your status updates count. It could get you off the hook and in the news some day. Or at least it’ll make your friends wonder WTF you’re smoking.

(Photo Via: CBS)