Life Lesson for Rodney: Don't Brag About Stealing on Facebook

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Stupid criminal pleads guilty to burglary after he stole a laptop and posted photo of himself on owner's Facebook

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 6:23 PM on 23rd February 2011

He didn't exactly stand much chance of getting away with it.

And yesterday the man described as 'the most stupid criminal ever', who stole a laptop then posted a leering photo of himself on its owner's Facebook page, pleaded guilty to burglary in Washington D.C.

Last December, Rodney Knight Jr, 19, broke into the home of  Washington Post journalist Marc Fisher and stole his 15-year-old son's laptop computer, $400, a winter coat and another laptop.

His own wanted poster: Rodney Knight Jr not only broke into a house and stole a laptop, but then posted a picture of himself on its owner's Facebook page

Except to rub salt in the wound, as well as stealing the family's property, Knight also decided to taunt them with his very own calling card.

At the time, Mr Fisher described how the burglar broke into his family's Washington D.C. home and kicked through the basement door while they was out.

Mr Fisher wrote: 'He opened my son's computer, took a photo of himself sneering as he pointed to the cash lifted from my son's desk, and then went on my son's Facebook account and posted the picture for 400 teenagers to see.

'In the picture, the man is wearing my new winter coat, the one that was stolen right out of the Macy's box it had just arrived in.'