A New York teenager narrowly avoided a 25-year jail term for armed robbery thanks to a Facebook status update he posted about pancakes, his lawyer said on Thursday.

一名纽约青少年近来躲避了一场被指控武装抢劫的长达25年的牢狱之灾，他的律师周四的时候声称这多亏了他在Facebook上更新的一条关于煎饼的状态。

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Robert made a statement to the police about the robbery that he saw.

罗伯特把他所见到的抢劫案件向警察作了陈述。

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Then, the next morning, he sees the news about a supermarket robbery in Los Angeles. The police are looking for somebody - somebody on a motorcycle, with long blond hair...

然后，第二天早上，他从新闻里看到在洛杉矶发生的一起超市劫案。

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"We are not convinced entirely at this point that we are talking about a robbery or an attempted robbery, " said national police chief Yohanan Danino.

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