While one man screws himself with social networking, another saves his skin.

Rodney Bradford updated his Facebook status on Saturday, October 17, at 11:49am, to read, "Where's my pancakes?" The next day, he was arrested as a suspect in a robbery. But the robbery occurred at the same time Bradford was searching for his breakfast! His lawyer pointed this out to the assistant district attorney, who subpoenaed Facebook to verify that the status update came from Bradford's home. Facebook confirmed that the status update was legit; the ADA dropped the charges.

Hilariously, a teacher at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice thinks the prosecutors were suckered:

“With a username and password, anyone can input data in a Facebook page,” Joseph Pollini said. “Some of the brightest people on the Internet are teenagers,” he said. “They know the Internet better than a lot of people. Why? Because they use it all the time. So they could develop an alibi. They watch television, the movies, there is a multitude of reasons why someone of that age would have the knowledge to do a crime like that.”

Oh, teens, watching the movies, and using the internet so much that hacking becomes an innate skill. They can't be trusted!

Maybe the teacher just thought the guy got someone else to update his status while he was out burglarizing. That was my first response - the "evidence" isn't exactly foolproof, and I don't think the kids need television to know that they should have an alibi when the cops come around.

I'm sure that's what he meant. His use of the phrase "they watch... the movies" just made him sound like a paranoid old guy. That, and suggesting that internet-using teens automatically have knowledge of how to "do a crime."