Detailed on Seattle’s local ABC affiliate Komo News, 18-year-old Jacob Cox-Brown though it would be a brilliant idea to update his Facebook status to reflect the details of his drive home on New Year’s Eve. After an alleged night of drinking alcohol, the teenager wrote “Drivin drunk … classsic ;) but to whoever’s vehicle i hit i am sorry. :P” as the new status update on his Facebook account. One of Cox-Brown’s 650+ friends immediately contacted the local Astoria police department through a police officer’s Facebook account and a second friend contacted the local police station.
According to Deputy Chief Brad Johnston, police officers were already investigating a hit-and-run accident in which two cars were hit when Cox-Brown’s friends contacted the police. A white-colored Scion involved in the accident was severely sideswiped and pieces of the car that caused the damage were left at the scene. After being alerted about the status update, police officers visited the home of Cox-Brown and found a vehicle with damage matching the sideswiped vehicle. In addition, police were able to match up pieces from the crash to the vehicle found at Cox-Brown’s home.
Cox-Brown was immediately arrested and charged with two counts of failing to perform the duties of a driver. Police were not able to charge Cox-Brown with drunk driving since he was interviewed several hours after the incident occurred. According to police, the Facebook post isn’t enough evidence of his intoxication while driving. Regarding Cox-Brown’s interview, Johnston stated ”He denied it initially, and it wasn’t until he was confronted with overwhelming evidence that he finally admitted to it.”
In a press release from the Astoria Police on Wednesday, a department representative stated “Astoria Police have an active social media presence. It was a private Facebook message to one of our officers that got this case moving, though. When you post … on Facebook, you have to figure that it is not going to stay private long.”
This goes to new levels of stupidity.
But you enjoyed reading about it. Kids will always be kids. They like to brag and they will do it to whoever is closest to them at the time of doing it. Unfortunately with technology, Facebook and his phone is the closest to him.
I did not “enjoy” reading about this. To me, a good day, is a day with no news. As a kid, I did the most stupidest stuff imaginable, but if I had hurt someone, or their property, I would be sick about it. I wouldn’t be laughing about it.
‘Kids will be kids’ lol. Are you an idiot?
Would people enjoy reading about it, if he plowed into your family & they were killed…?!
Yea it was stupid enough with the accident alone and driving off without any regards to see if the other driver is hurt. Would’ve really bad if he found that someone in that other car had been killed as a result of his stupidity. Hopefully this kids will learn to take responsibility for his actions in the future, and that his parents take his keys away from him, take a class of defensive driving, and after a period of time when he’s trustworthy that he can have a car that he can appreciate to drive safely and not recklessly..
He hit 2 parked cars.
That makes it ok then, right?
You’re almost as big a moron as he is.
Andy Warhol once said that one day all of us will be famous for 15 minutes– I guess he thought that was his moment. We are raising a generation of sociopaths that don’t care about anything except being seen and adored by absolute strangers. He obviously cared more about that than the person/people he harmed. This happened partly because we would rather chat online with people made of pixels and light rather than engage someone right in front of us.
You’re right. But I think a more apt discription of the current generation would be “entitklement-minded narcissists”.
They are concerned only about themselves and what you can do for them or what they can get from you. If you disagree with them, they get real bent out of shape.
Which is right in line with the “progressive” agenda.
First…kick God and any references to Him out of public view, especially the schools (you have to start early if you are going to posses their minds).
Next…subvert parental authority, even make it a crime to spank your own child, lest it “offend” some childless idiot.
And to seal the progressive hold on gullible minds…give them someone to hate….police…parents…(not teachers because you need them to do the dirty work of warping young minds)….Christians (but not muslims, because they kill back)….Jews….conservatives….
And of course….the final solution….seperate and ridicule any who don’t concur with your agenda. Perhaps even relocating them to a more central location so as to be able to monitor them abd their politically incorrect thoughts.
I bet you could turn a weather report into a progressive agenda story., and blame the bad weather on liberals. When it was your turn to be (your words) “given someone to hate” you must have hit the Select All box.
Except it wasn’t about the weather, it was about a typical self-centered jackwad.
Must have reminded you of someone you know very well, given your lame response.
Wow, that’s just ridiculously dumb.
Like Fred Sandford used to say. You big dummy!
Ladies and Gentlemen, Our generation.