Posted on 12/05/2013 8:03:17 AM PST by Impala64ssa
Here's a weird twist in the brave new world of electric cars: A driver ended up in jail on theft charges after plugging into a school's outlet without permission. The kicker: He got maybe 5 cents worth of juice for his trouble, reports 11Alive. The mess began when Kaveh Kamooneh drove to his son's middle school in Chamblee, Ga., to watch his kid play tennis. He spotted an exterior outlet and plugged in his Nissan Leaf, only to get stopped by a police officer after about 20 minutes.
The officer filed a report, and police showed up on Kamooneh's doorstep 11 days later to arrest him. He then spent 15 hours in jail. Kamooneh acknowledges he didn't ask permission to juice up, but he adds that it was a Saturday morning and nobody was around. "A theft is a theft," says an unsympathetic police sergeant. Maybe so, but "if electric cars are to become more commonplace, so too must locations for emergency booster charges," observes Lindsay Abrams at Salon.
How about taking a drink of water from a drinking fountain on school property?
Couldn't that also be classified as theft?
I am going to pretend that your question was meant as a joke and simply laugh. LOL
Based on this info, Mr. Kamoomeh sounds like a world-class douche.
That's a plug for an old TV show, isn't it?
Thanks, I’ll be here all week. :^)
While theft is debatable in this case, since the school had advised him he wasn’t welcome on the property they could make a case for trespassing.
Wire you wondering about that? Watt's it to you? ;)
Please give credit for the arrest to Det. Sherlock Ohms.
The first nickel’s worth is on me. I promise I won’t call the cops. Other than that I can’t make any promises....
And his sidekick, Dr. Watts-on.
The local W-M parking lots have outlets in the parking lot. In the summer time campers park there and use the electricitty. I asked the store manager if they object to that practice. He told me that was one of the primary reasons they were there. Traveling campers tend to buy their supplies from W-M when they are parked on their lots.
Makes sense to me.
By the way, he also told me that many actually ask permission first. Some don’t. Probably the “some” who don’t, already know about W-M’s policy.
Guess we should all rethink charging our smart-phones at the airport, huh?
Indeed!
Nope. I was serious.
If plugging your EV into an outlet without permission is considered stealing, then why isn't taking a drink of water from a drinking fountain?
Both water and electricity are utilities that must be purchased by the school district.
Neither one is supplied free of charge.
So, if the cops in this story are so worried about someone 'stealing' electricity, why aren't they equally diligent about people 'stealing' water?
Needs to be 480. Many devices operate on 120-240/50-60 Hz these days. But I like your idea!
LOL…. my sides are aching. LOL
I guess the devil is in the details.
A person of honor wouldn't have done it.
So, you don't think taking a drink to be stealing water.
How about if I fill my 32 oz. bottle? Is that theft?
Or, my 5-gallon cooler? Is that theft?
What if I filled up my 50-gallon tank on my RV? Is that theft?
How about if I hooked up my hose and filled my swimming pool? Would you consider that to be theft?
How much water would I have to take from a public school before you would consider it stealing?
You attention seekers have to work too had for such little gain. LMAO
Now my sides are splitting. Bwahahahahahahaha! Ah, hahahahahahaha!
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