According to the Birmingham News, two young men in the Birmingham (that's Alabama) area targeted homeowners in upscale neighborhoods based on when they updated their FaceBook accounts that they'd be out of town.
I can see it now: an updated Home Alone where the crooks are lured by the McCallister family's FaceBook announcement that they're all going to [insert popular family vacation destination here] for their summer vacation. Unfortunately, one precocious child is left behind. The real kicker is that Macaulay Culkin will either reprise his role as eight-year old Kevin McCalister, or he can return as the father (either a grown-up Kevin or taking on the role of the original father while the beloved child character continues his pranks and signature shocked expression) who sees the other side of the family drama as he is now the father of an abandoned child. If he plays a grown-up Kevin, we could even get a touching Hollywood moment where the father and son make one final trap for the crooks, thus ensuring a parent-child bonding experience that was absent at the beginning of the movie.
*sighs* It's a great cautionary tale about the dangers of making your profile -- and thus your life -- too public on the internet. Because if you're not careful, Hollywood can -- and will -- bring Home Alone back to punish you for your ways.
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