Rodney Knight Jr. is clearly no criminal mastermind. In fact, some news outlets are giving him their “Most stupid criminal ever” award, although we think we have a few candidates for that as well. He’s right up there, though. Knight broke into a house. The house of a major journalist for a major paper. And stole the journalist’s son’s laptop. Then he used the stolen laptop’s browser to post a picture of himself to the son’s Facebook account!

One of our most often-read articles is What to Do if you’ve Lost Your Cell Phone or Your Cell Phone is Stolen, which tells us that this is an issue for a lot of people. Among other things, the article advises that you be sure to have your cell phone provider turn your cell phone off if you believe it to be stolen. This is still good advice, but there is one situation in which you may not want to have it turned off right away, and that is the situation where the thief is using your cell phone to make and receive calls, and/or to send and receive text messages.