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Fugitive Using Facebook to Taunt Authorities With Constant Updates

by Terrence O'Brien on December 23, 2009 at 11:09 AM


If you'd managed to escape from prison, one would assume constantly updating your Facebook status with what you're doing and where you are, for the express purpose of taunting the authorities, would be the last thing you'd do. Craig "Lazie" Lynch, however, appears to be unconcerned with notions of "proper" fugitive behavior, and is logging on and signing in.

This past September, the convicted burglar escaped from an open prison (a low security prison that "trusts" inmates to serve their sentences) in Suffolk, England. Ever since, Lynch has been a prolific Facebooker, updating regularly about parties he's attending (including the neighborhood one event was in), indulgent lunches he's enjoyed ("mmm I just had a 12lb venison steak"), and even gloating about how warm and cozy his home is ("it felt like the Caribbean in the bedroom"). Even Lynch's profile picture has been updated to taunt his pursuers, with him leaning in close to the camera and flipping the bird.

Police told the Telegraph that they were continuing to look for Lynch, checking his Facebook profile regularly and trying to track the IP addresses from which he's updated. But as John Gummer, MP for Suffolk Coastal, told the paper, "It's very dangerous to assume the police could easily locate someone through a social networking site." However, if Evan Ratliff couldn't disappear, we don't give Lynch a chance at long-term survival. [From: Telegraph, via Digg]

Tags: crime, escape, facebook, fugitive, law, top

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