From our friends at the Daily Dot: Since the company’s launch in 2004, a number of users have gotten arrested for what they’ve posted to Facebook, whether it’s threats of violence, child pornography, or photographic evidence of theft. In honor of the company’s ninth anniversary, here are nine individuals, most of them quite dumb, who have been arrested for something as simple and avoidable as a Facebook post.
A Chicago dad who allegedly posted to his Facebook account, showing his 22-month-old daughter bound with tape and the caption, “This is wut happens wen my baby hits me back,” had been acquitted on a charge of unlawful restraint.
