The lesson here is when you’re committing a crime, no matter how hot it gets, keep your balaclava on.
Queenstown police nabbed a burglar after posting security camera images on the internet networking site Facebook of him trying to crack a safe.
Police said it was the country’s first such Facebook arrest and they would use the site again to fight crime.
“Facebook was very handy, and it’s a good little tool,” said Senior Sergeant John Fookes. [NZ Herald]
Believe it or not, once, when I worked for ASB Bank, a notorious group of bank robbers, called the ‘screw driver’ gang (because they used screw drivers to open the day safes) robbed the branch I worked at. And in the excitement of the robbery, and perhaps for a bit of T.V. gangster fame, one of the guys removed his balaclave and revealed his moronic, thuggish face to the bank cameras – a foolish act which lead to the group’s arrest!