Bank Robbers Busted After Facebook Boast

'Wipe my teeth with hundereds,' reads semi-literate post
By Mark Russell,  Newser Staff
Posted Apr 25, 2011 3:21 PM CDT
Updated Apr 25, 2011 3:40 PM CDT
Bank Robbers Busted After Facebook Boast
Four people were arrested for robbing a Houston bank after they were found bragging of the crime on Facebook.   (Shutterstock)

Four bank robbers in Houston were so proud of their hard work that they boasted of their accomplishments on Facebook—leading police right to them, reports the Telegraph. "IM RICH B****" and "WIPE MY TEETH WITH HUNDEREDS" were two of the brilliant, all-cap Facebook messages posted two days after they allegedly made off with more than $62,000. It turns out two of the alleged robbers were tellers at the bank in question, and made sure they were the only ones working when a boyfriend and a brother entered wearing masks to "rob" the branch on March 23.

The bragging actually started two days before the robbery, notes the Houston Chronicle, when a bank teller involved in the heist wrote "Get $$$" on her Facebook page. "I've always heard that you shouldn't post pictures of yourself on Facebook smoking pot or drinking because employers are now looking at Facebook pages," said a lawyer for one of the robbers. "But I never knew there should be a warning not to post about a bank robbery that's been committed." (Click to read about another ill-advised Facebook post.)

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