Criminals openly confessed to their crimes on Reddit after a user posed the question, "What's the most illegal thing you've ever done? NSFW."
Reddit user Lonely_Solipsist's query triggered 15,000 responses, including people admitting to murder, homicide, sexual assault, drug trafficking and blowing up schools. Some professions were minor crimes, like smoking weed in a park or crashing their parents' cars, but not all were so petty.
According to vocativ.com, one person wrote: "Late to the party...but here goes: I raped a girl twice. I blew up a car at a party. I threw a molotov cocktail into a courthouse. Molested a 2 yr old. Planted kiddy porn in my principals computer. Killed a kid and blamed it on drugs. All these are true and i can elaborate a little if there's any interest."
He added: "edit: i feel no remorse, and no one suspects a thing."
Another user, Mitchyslick8, said: "I brought heroin into the US from Mexico when I was using drugs."
Police are taking advantage of this digital over-share. More than 80 percent of law enforcement agencies, an International Association of Chiefs of Police survey found, nab criminals using social media.
By monitoring social media traffic via software like Geofeedia or Bright Planet, police and FBI can track users they suspect are committing crimes. Since content on Facebook and Twitter is publicly available, police don't need a warrant for investigations.
Most recently, Derek Medina was arrested after he confessed to killing his wife on Facebook, posting a photo of her blood-stained body.
"You answer this, it just goes to show how friggin' stupid some people are, some stranger asks you to admit to a crime (publicly) and these morons run to get in line to answer," user bgiarc commented following the recent thread. "Before you start whining that you are using a throwaway, if they so desired the powers that be could track back your throwaway and bust your dumbass."
