An Oregon teen posts a boast on Facebook that he has been tipsy at the wheel. He apologizes to owners of cars he hit. Police are less apologetic when they arrest him.
Cox-Brown’s Facebook page. The boast has been removed.
(Credit: Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)
It has now been firmly established – by Randi Zuckerberg, no less – that Facebook is the home of human decency.
How is it possible, then, that 18-year-old Jacob Cox-Brown of Astoria, Ore., did not receive the message?
For, according to KGW.com, Cox-Brown had the indecent temerity to post this to his Facebook page: “Drivin drunk… classsic 
but to whoever’s vehicle i hit i am sorry. 
.”
This was, indeed, a classsic (sic) example of misbegotten sharing.
For police — who had concluded that not one but two vehicles had been struck by an unknown driver — now concluded that the driver was Jacob Cox-Brown.
How did they manage this? By the saddest reality of all. Two of Cox-Brown’s alleged friends reportedly contacted the law in order, one imagines, to restore human decency.
Teen boasts of drunken driving on Facebook, arrested
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