A young lady (20) who had the temerity to charge her phone using a socket at a railway station has been arrested for theft of electricity, after a passerby called police to avert the robbery, having stolen 0.015 watt hours (or 54 joules), worth a shocking total of 0.03 yen ($0.0003).
The lady, a student, is suspected of charging her phone at a station whilst waiting with a friend. A passerby saw the crime in progress and dialed 110, summoning police, who came rushing the arrest the thief before she fled with her ill-gotten gains.
After being arrested the thief was repentant: “I understand now it was a bad thing to do.”
Police issued a reprimand, but did not consider her crime grievous enough to prosecute, treating it as a minor offence.
The police in charge had this to add: “Theft is theft, even three hundredths of a yen.”
Via Asahi.
Thank God, set this girl loose on the streets, and it’ll be chaos.
I blame the parents… :/
its about time this madness was stopped… thank god.
I blame the schools. =\
seriously wth kind of uber goody two shoes called the police!
holy crap a busy body that didn’t have anything else to do.this is just retarded.
Hah, I’ve used my laptop at a McDonald’s plugged into a wall socket for hours. Must have been several hundred times more electricity. Beware, I’m a serial electricity thief!
Wow. Absolutely dumbfounding. The police should’ve rushed there to arrest the snitch. Heavens knows we don’t need more of those kinds of people ruining society.
“I understand now it was a bad thing to do.” LOL, sounds like the kid who was caught stealing cookies from the cookie jar.
they wasted time arresting this girl so they don’t have to catch real criminals.
Japanese police can’t do shit.
last time i checked the japanese police arrested everything that fall in line. hell they make sure that you get fined and arrested for anything this incident does not surprise me at all.
Police and people must be bored because Japan rarely has real criminals.
I guess the police is tired of dealing with sexual deviants…
All crime start small lolz… well again… do they really need a police to handle this case? well, Jap. cop is always more than just a cop that is what i know n it is good isnt it?
Sarcasm- Good god next they’ll be stealing our oxygen.
End sarcasm
And this passerby didn’t seem to think that he could have just tapped the woman on the shoulder and said “you shouldn’t do that”?
And if there was actually a sign that said you couldn’t use the socket then this entire thing wouldn’t have happened. If they did decide to prosecute she would have a good defense.
maybe the passerby was jealous because its his/her usual spot for charging his/her phone.. lol
Poor-poor girl. But seriously, by providing open socket without sigh of “Forbiden” to use, it mean they allow it.
Luckyly it does not happen to me, if it does, i’ll just sue someone :)
Geez, Japanese police could be silly isn’t? I mean, they could just warn or talk to the girl, not arrest her.
In the future, this might happen :)
Idiot1:”Hey, you breathing my air! I’l report you to the police.”
Idiot2:”Hey, you stinky mouth is poisoning me! I’l report you to the police for a murder attempt.”
The snitch is the one who should’ve gotten in trouble. The Japanese police were complaining only a couple of weeks ago about stupid wastes of emergency operator’s time…
I have decided! She is my wife
Goodness, then I should be arrested many times then.
Umm…and why exactly do they have outlets there ?
Certainly not for…i dunno…SUPPLYING POWER ???
Outlet in a public area = free electricity… right? Or maybe they putted them there as decoration, dunno…
now im confused with japanese policies…
some things that you expact to be wrong are right and vice-versa…
I blame animu, video games, and satanic rock music!
I guess the context in which Western countries perceive this to be, would be along the lines of ‘moral laws’.
Theft IS theft, regardless of the amount.
they should have arrested the caller for wasting their time and beat him with their night sticks, its not like she had a bomb, nor is there a sign that says do not use our outlets, this is not theft, the police just fail to make progress