In the list of stupid things to do on Facebook, a new chapter was added a couple of days back when a teen from Oregon, USA was arrested for allegedly bragging about his “drunk driving” stint on new year night. The teen had the following message put up in his status:

[quote type=”large” align=”justify”] “Drivin drunk… classsic 😉 but to whoever’s vehicle i hit i am sorry. :P.” [/quote]

Among the people who saw the status, two persons contacted the Oregon police department with the information that Jacob Cox-Brown had the mentioned such and such in his status. Police had conformed the reports of two vehicle being hit on 5th Street, Astoria. Based on the information, Police verified damage done to the cars with the accused teenager’s car.

Jacob is charged with two counts of failing to perform the duties of a driver. A drunken driving charge could not be leveled because the Facebook status was not sufficient evidence.

Lesson to learn from the incident, don’t do stupid things on social media or improve your privacy settings (as seen in the pic above, the status was visible to “public”.

Source: http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Drunk-driving-Facebook-post-lands-Astoria-teen-in-jail-185591512.html