This is priceless. A Belfast granny takes on a bunch of thugs wielding sledgehammers and trying to break into a jewelry store. From the Belfast Telegraph we get this part of the story:

Four men are being held by police after a gang of crash-helmeted robbers wielding sledgehammers was put to flight by a pensioner who attacked them with a handbag.Video footage of the attempted robbery at a jeweller’s in Northampton town centre showed the unlikely have-a-go-hero crossing a road and jogging briskly towards the six-strong mob as they smashed the shop’s windows.

The raiders, who had arrived at the scene on three scooters, drove away just moments after the red-coated pensioner, thought to be aged in her 70s, began lashing out at them with a large black handbag.

It turns out that video of the thrashing has turned up on YouTube. You go Granny ….

Sledgehammer wielding thugs learn – don’t mess with granny! [VIDEO] is a post from: The Inquisitr

Bwahahahaha.

[epicponyz]

I hate you, bike thief is a post from: The Inquisitr

Seriously, is FarmTown that important?

A Pennsylvania burglar is behind bars after signing onto Facebook mid-burgle from the victim’s computer. Stupid? Unnecessary? That’s not even the worst part. Jonathan Parker, 19, didn’t bother logging off when robbing the home of two rings valued at more than $3500, nevermind deleting the history or cookies or not using the stupid internet when he was burgling someone’s house.

On August 28th, the victim reported that her home had been broken into through a window, and obvious signs of a break-in were apparent. Before she even noticed the missing jewelry, she noticed that the thief had logged onto Facebook and not signed off. Police quickly learned that the victim and perp were connected through acquaintances, and the not-so-clever criminal had even hit up some of his friends to go thieving with him. They declined.

Parker now remains in custody, facing 1 to 1o years in jail for the ill-planned break-in.

[Via Mashable]

Dopey burglar logs onto Facebook while burgling is a post from: The Inquisitr

Even to this day it absolutely  amazes me the degree to which people will post stuff on places like Twitter than any sane person would think twice of. It’s one thing to tell the world you’re taking a dump but it is another thing altogether different when you spread the word that you have left to go on your holidays, especially if for some idiotic reason you toss in some BrightKite info.

This however is exactly what an Arizona man did recently, minus the BrightKite info, only to come home after his and his wife’s holidays in Kansas City.

Israel Hyman posted to approximately 2,000 followers on Twitter that he and his wife were "preparing to head out of town," that they had "another 10 hours of driving ahead" and later, that they "made it to Kansas City."

When he came home, he found that someone had broken into his house and stolen thousands of dollars worth of video equipment he used for his video business, IzzyVideo.com, which he uses for his Twitter account.

"My wife thinks it could be a random thing, but I just have my suspicions," he told The Associated Press. "They didn’t take any of our normal consumer electronics."

Source: Security :: cnet news

I think that things like Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook serve a great purpose however advertising you are leaving town for an extended period of time isn’t one of them. As we get sucked further into this rabbit hole of the real-time web and our desire to post everything about ourselves to the web we are leaving ourselves open to more and more things like this happening.

Of course when news of an increase of these types of things happening hit the mainstream it will be the fault of the big bad web and not the people who insist on exposing themselves to such a degree.

Here’s a hint – telling the Twittersphere you’ve left on holidays isn’t a bright idea is a post from: The Inquisitr