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Online Crime

A young mother parked her car at a daycare in McDonough, Ga., and went inside to get her daughter. She noticed a black SUV parked next to her and, according to Henry County Investigator Maj. Jason Bolton, thought that the driver was a female because of the long braids. Later, when she got home, the mother discovered that her purse had been stolen, apparently while it was left in her car at the daycare. A break in the case came quickly, though. About 12 hours later, Bolton said, the victim pulled up her Facebook page “and she notices this picture that has been automatically uploaded, and she thinks, when she sees it, ‘oh, this is the person that I saw right next to me, but it’s a guy, not a girl.’ Obviously, this individual had no idea that her phone had these settings on it that caused it to automatically upload [pictures] to Facebook.” The clear photo of the suspect is being released to help identify him. “I’m thinking he’s going to be pretty surprised,” Bolton said. (MS/Atlanta Journal-Constitution) ...Sometimes, a picture’s worth 1,000 laughs.