Once upon a time, burglars checked out obituaries in the newspaper to find out who would be at funerals so they'd know which houses to break into and when. It's comforting to see that, though technology might change, human nature stays the same:
A New Albany woman claims a man who added her as a friend on Facebook burglarized her home Saturday after she posted a message that she and her fiancee would be out for the evening.
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Keri McMullen, of the 4000 block of Lucy Drive, said she posted a message on the popular social networking Web site stating that she and her fiancee would be watching a band play at Louisville's Phoenix Hill Tavern.
The concert was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. At 8:42 p.m., two men broke into their home.
I have a friend who just jumped into Facebook, and she's having a great time reconnecting with people she knew in high school. That's the upside of social networking. The downside is that it's just one more way for the creeps and clowns to get at those who don't live by Leo's First Law of Human Interaction: Never trust anybody about anything, ever.
At least this story has a happy ending. The woman's fiance works in home security, so the couple had recently installed a surveillance system in their home; the entire burglary was caught on video. Technology giveth and technology taketh away.
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...But NATURAL JUSTICE will always remain the same.
(thankfully)
It just needs to be practiced with a lot more frequency.