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<DIV><SPAN class=062235606-13112009><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Short version: a
robber is accused of a different robbery that he didn't commit. Alibi: he
was doing a time stamped facebook update at the time the crime took place 12
miles away:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><A
href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/12/facebook.alibi/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/12/facebook.alibi/index.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=062235606-13112009>OK, so how long
before facebooking robbers figure out how to create a time-stamped facebook
update one hour after leaving the house? The robber writes up
the update, poise a pivot arm over the return key with an ice cube
counterweight, drive across town, pull off the caper while the ice cube
melts, drops the pivot arm and hits the send key, providing a solid
time-stamped alibi. Then the robber hopes she doesn't return home to find
the cat jumped up on the desk and knocked over the contraption before the ice
cube melted and hit the send button.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=062235606-13112009>Better idea: set up
a contraption that can be triggered by a cell phone call, robber drives across
town, calls home, phone ringer is rigged to drop something on the send key, pull
off robbery, go home, hope some yahoo didn't call her trying to
sell her carpet cleaning service a minute after she left the
house.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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