Boy those social networks are sticky: a pair of iPhone thieves were caught thanks to Facebook.
Brittany Busby, 19, and Todd Beede, 28, strolled into an AT&T store in downtown Montpelier, Vermont at around 2 p.m. and started checking out the phones.
They grabbed a $700 iPhone and ran off – but were caught because they couldn’t resist logging into Facebook on another phone in the store but forgot to sign off.
The Facebook account was under Busby’s name, the police report says, and the pair were quickly stopped in the area and the iPhone recovered.
This is the latest incidence of Facebook making the crime blotter – but it doesn’t always equate to easily-nabbed thieves.
After stealing a teenager’s computer from his home, one thief posted pics on the victim’s Facebook account. Cops still haven’t managed to track him down.
Facebook was one of the most popular apps for the iPhone in 2010, coming in just after addictive game Angry Birds.
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