TheNerdNews: Student accused of stealing 1p worth of electricity

[thenerdguy]

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A German student who plugged his laptop into a socket at a train station is facing legal charges for "stealing electricity" worth less than a penny.
Jan Michael Ihl, a 23-year-old student from Trier, found the socket by an abandoned information stand and used it to find out the address of a hostel he was staying at in the town of Kassel.
But he had not got very far out of the train station when three police officers arrested him for "illegally extracting electricity" from the train station.
The officers said they had watched as Ihl crouched by the plug socket and constantly looked over his shoulder before running away.
The matter has now been handed over to the public prosecutors who will decide if it is worth taking the student to court.
After conducting his own calculations on how much electricity he "stole", Ihl, who is also an energy specialist for environmental organisation Greenpeace, said: "The whole thing is ridiculous. I 'stole' electricity worth less than one cent."

 

[Crushenator 500]

ffs, i cant believe how petty people can be. i mean, pfft, its not like you can use 0.6p or whatever to buy anything worth buying

 

[The Dark Elf]

"who is also an energy specialist for environmental organisation Greenpeace"

Sounds to me like he did it on purpose to try cause trouble, considering they (Greenpeace) haven't been in the news lately and need some publicity.

 

[Sui]

cant he just bribe them with two cents???

 

[jonnyapps]

my dad says mum was worth buying...

 

[craig]

wow, that is rediculous, but as Fenric said I reckon he's doing it for the publicity. must have made himself look really sinister to make sure he was going to get caught.

Maybe he was John Titor draining a nuclear station like Checkov is Star Trek 5? and his 1cent estimate is way off! I mean time travel doesn't half break the bank.

 

[simmo]

oh for crying out load...how pointless is that :|

 

[X-FacToR]

People not having something better to do...

 

[lePobz]

Bring back the death penalty for stealers of electricity!

 

[Crushenator 500]

/me brings bsck the death penalty for stealers of electricity
happy now ??

 

[lePobz]

Yeah... now give him lots of electricity, like.... £2,000 worth... all at once, to his chair.

Bet he'll be overjoyed.

 

[craig]

Yeah... now give him lots of electricity, like.... £2,000 worth... all at once, to his chair.

Bet he'll be overjoyed.

Bet you're as funny in real life as you were just then? Oh I remember.. no you're not!

 

[Murray_H]

They'll probably take him to court and use a shitload of tax payers money to recover the loss....

 

[X-FacToR]

They'll probably take him to court and use a shitload of tax payers money to recover the loss....

Im acctually in the process of going to court I was charged with (Obstructing an officer) it was on New Years eve at a party at my friends. The cops responded to a call (unknown from whom) because of noise. Anyways the cops knocked on the door and they wanted to come in which their continous efforts failed no one would let them in. Finnally they came in the back door (no one let them in) lol Anyways I got pissed(drank tons of whiskey) and yelled at them(cussing and telling them to go away) for quite a while (they were in the kitchen for approx 2 hours) (finnally they got fed up with me and arrested me) too me to the cop station and took me home. (Im 23 years old by the way) They interogated everyone that was their and wrote up mip's for 3 friends that were of course under age drinking (I had no idea they were even drinking btw)

Anyways we are in the process of all the cases being dismissed because of (unlawfully entry) and if they decide to stick any charges on me im gunna sue them for violating my privacy. Cops are lame what it comes down too, wish me luck.

 

[nw909]

I'm gonna go steal some electricity now, be back later.