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A 51-year-old guy in Hawaii named Gordon Cordeiro got out of prison on Friday after spending 30 YEARS behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit.
He was convicted of killing a guy in 1994 over a drug deal gone bad. But he always maintained his innocence, and DNA evidence finally cleared him.
One of the first things he did was go out for a nice steak dinner, which was a little different than the prison food he’s been eating. But he said the craziest thing he’s experienced so far is . . . “everybody is looking at their PHONE” all the time.
He’d never seen cell phone zombies, because smartphones weren’t a thing yet in 1994. We didn’t even have flip-phones until ’96. All he had was a BEEPER.
He told a reporter he got his first cell phone as soon as he got out on Friday, but he’s not obsessed with it “YET.” He mainly just thinks it’s weird how messages are always flooding in. Quote, “It keeps beeping.”
Welcome to 2025, Gordon. Compared to the ’90s, it’s . . . better?
