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.
I still have no idea why you are trying to pick a fight with me. Perhaps you’ve started your period?
Nice. I'm sure you treat all the women in your life similarly when they get under your skin. Or, do you just make a fist and pop `em in the mouth?
Maybe you should slither back under your slimy rock at DU.
Perhaps if you'd just answered my questions honestly, we could have had a nice discussion among FRiends.
You and I will never be FRiends. I see you as a troll and a stupid one.
There is nothing for us to discuss.
You're probably right. True FRiendship requires certain traits and you seem to possess none of them.
Yeah, he was taking advantage of the parasitic oscillations.
I don’t think he would have been reported to the police if he had his cell phone charging. He wasn’t even with his car when he was discovered.
That tells me his intention was to fill his kiddie pool, not take a sip of water or even a bottles worth of water. He was practicing greed. It was and abuse of trust.
With the fountain he would be at the fountain working the fountain to fill his bottle. The fountain is intended for partaking of, the body needs water— outlets are not generally for public use.
If he had a hose connected to an outside faucet, that would be more than a reasonable use, too.
He had also been asked not to use the school property as well, he ignored that request.
So yes, if he had a hose connected to a fountain, left it unattended whilst he lollygagged on the tennis court (that he had been asked not to use)—that would also be theft.
Give him the chair.
Two douche bags and their statism.
This just in from Georgia Tech EE Dept. "...a kamooneh is defined as five minutes worth of stolen electricity, providing the thief did not know watt he was doing and is welly welly sorry and amply demonstrates it ."
Drinking fountains are generally agreed upon as a public use item, if you put them in a public zone on your property you’re agreeing that people can use them. Electrical outlets are generally agreed upon as a private use item, they exist on your property for your employees to use while managing the property. Now laptop culture has caused a little fuzziness on the electrical outlet situation in places like airports and coffee shops, and if they get more popular electric cars will fuzz up the parking lot picture, but for now electrical outlets aren’t water fountains.
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