If you commit a crime, Post it on YouTube

October 27, 2006 · by · in Media, Video

Here is what some guy in Wales did and posted his crime on YouTube. What is funny is some of the comments!

Helpful hint: If you commit a crime, don’t post it on YouTube

October 27, 2006 7:27 AM PDT

As an 18-year-old from Wales soon learned, posting YouTube prank videos that contain criminal activity can get you arrested. In this case, it was stealing a pair of glasses off a charity worker in the street. The theft was reported, and somehow the cops managed to find the video evidence on YouTube.

This is by no means the first time that goofy online postings have led to unexpected arrests. Remember “Smokey McBlunt”? He’s the North Carolina resident who posted photos of his illegal pet snake on his MySpace profile back in August; thanks to eagle-eyed neighbors and intervention from animal control authorities, “Smokey” is now snakeless.

Thanks to Fark.com for the heads-up on the Welsh YouTube glasses thief.

Posted by Caroline McCarthy

Helpful hint: If you commit a crime, don’t post it on YouTube

YouTube criminals

Reader post by: Zeist

Posted on: October 27, 2006, 8:34 AM PDT

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I don’t appreciate you telling criminals to not post their crimes to online video carriers. I want all criminals to be proud of their works and proclaim their deeds loudly across the internet, brag to friends, and telephone police to tell them of their exploits. This would make it much easier to get them off the streets, collect fines and rehab them. Hopefully fewer crimes will be committed and the rest of us can live in peace.

He speaks truth

Reader post by: adot44

Posted on: October 27, 2006, 11:31 AM PDT

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I wholeheartedly agree with Zeist. This kind of thing makes for a good laugh, but also serves to educate potential/actual criminals. Akin to televised criminal investigations (which I despise) that illuminate the criminals’ (proper use of plural possesive case) weaknesses, mistakes and areas of stupidity, thereby making it harder to use those same mistakes to catch other criminals. I have heard numerous criminal confessions where the criminals were educated by CSI and the like, as well as nonfictional investigations by groups like “Dateline”. I think we should forego the entertainment in order to exploit human criminal stupidity.