![Imagine if the most important sentence you ever wrote was a Facebook status update that goes something like this: “ON THE PHONE WITH THIS FAT CHICK……WHERER MY IHOP.” Now you know how it feels to be 19-year-old Rodney Bradford, who used that all-caps message to keep himself out of prison.
The teen was suspected of a gunpoint robbery until he used the status update as an alibi, proving to a district attorney that the message had been written in Harlem at the time of the mugging in Brooklyn’s Farragut Houses, according to the Times’ blog The Local. Oddly, the Times cleans up Bradford’s status update — which it describes as being “written in indecipherable street slang” that was “gobbledygook to anyone besides Mr. Bradford” — to read “Where’s my pancakes.” A visit to Bradford’s Facebook page reveals it actually says “ON THE PHONE WITH THIS FAT CHICK……WHERER MY IHOP.” […]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kug4qcaJOY1qzzmkno1_500.png "Imagine if the most important sentence you ever wrote was a Facebook status update that goes something like this: “ON THE PHONE WITH THIS FAT CHICK……WHERER MY IHOP.” Now you know how it feels to be 19-year-old Rodney Bradford, who used that all-caps message to keep himself out of prison.
The teen was suspected of a gunpoint robbery until he used the status update as an alibi, proving to a district attorney that the message had been written in Harlem at the time of the mugging in Brooklyn’s Farragut Houses, according to the Times’ blog The Local. Oddly, the Times cleans up Bradford’s status update — which it describes as being “written in indecipherable street slang” that was “gobbledygook to anyone besides Mr. Bradford” — to read “Where’s my pancakes.” A visit to Bradford’s Facebook page reveals it actually says “ON THE PHONE WITH THIS FAT CHICK……WHERER MY IHOP.” […]")
Imagine if the most important sentence you ever wrote was a Facebook status update that goes something like this: “ON THE PHONE WITH THIS FAT CHICK……WHERER MY IHOP.” Now you know how it feels to be 19-year-old Rodney Bradford, who used that all-caps message to keep himself out of prison.
The teen was suspected of a gunpoint robbery until he used the status update as an alibi, proving to a district attorney that the message had been written in Harlem at the time of the mugging in Brooklyn’s Farragut Houses, according to the Times’ blog The Local. Oddly, the Times cleans up Bradford’s status update — which it describes as being “written in indecipherable street slang” that was “gobbledygook to anyone besides Mr. Bradford” — to read “Where’s my pancakes.” A visit to Bradford’s Facebook page reveals it actually says “ON THE PHONE WITH THIS FAT CHICK……WHERER MY IHOP.” […]
