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One of the things that I have never understood is the idea that some people get into their heads to film themselves committing criminal acts.
I mean, it’s not exactly like you will ever be able to display what you are doing in a place of pride or prominence. You robbing a grocery store or keying someone’s car for example aren’t exactly acts that you can play the footage of at the family Christmas party.
It’s always the same type of people who want to film themselves doing something illegal, it’s almost always the people who are trying to get some level of street cred for some ungodly reason.
Or, they just don’t realize that they are doing something epicly stupid while they are recording themselves or even worse, leaving their cell phone’s tracking software running.
I know of someone in my area a while ago who got into a domestic situation where the police had to get involved, and this lunatic fled the state. Their one mistake is that they forgot to turn off location sharing on their phone.
The police were able to pinpoint exactly where they were heading and notified the police of their intended destination. Take a wild guess where the police showed up.
Anyway, it always seems that when someone is filming themselves committing a crime they think they are going to get away with it. That’s usually when the hysterics start, the moment they get caught, deny they did anything, and then the authorities go through their cell phone.
Something like this happened recently when a young lady named Dayjia Blackwell livestreamed herself on Facebook participating in one of a spate of mob lootings in Philadelphia.
She streamed a looting spree that encompassed a list of crimes about as long as your wrist. She must have thought the folks back home were going to be so proud of her.
Then the silver bracelets were clamped on and that’s usually when the gravity of a situation tends to sink in for everyone. The second they stood her in the picture booth to get her mugshot taken, she began to break down in tears. Some present at the scene say it was from shame, some say it was from the fact that she was just mad that she got caught.
Dumb criminals have been around for as long as there has been crime, but I ask you; when there are cameras everywhere that already have been paid for by our tax dollars, why go the extra mile of filming yourself committing a crime?
That just goes against everything in the criminal handbook. I bet the prosecutor sends her a Christmas card next year for making their job so darned easy.
