Girl Arrested for Charging Phone

they wasted time arresting this girl so they don't have to catch real criminals.

seriously wth kind of uber goody two shoes called the police!

Thank God, set this girl loose on the streets, and it'll be chaos.

If it's illegal, why are there sockets anyway? Isn't that kinda like the "don't press this" button?

In our place we do that everyday... including the police

You know.

Stories like this,

makes me glad to not be in Japan.

Totally stupid.

The amount of energy and time wasted over less than a penny of power? The Police wasted time and money doing retarded crap like this. If they spent 30mins with her, perhaps $40 worth of time was lost. If they took her to court, put her in jail for it. A few thousands dollars on top of that.

These guys can RUSH to stop someone from charging a cellphone. But they HAVE a hard time catching
molesters. Perhaps too busy chasing people over petty crimes.

wow... someone called the police to arrest a girl just because shes charging her phone. that person deserves to get beaten.

They arrest people for stealing power, but let rapists run free.

This is so stupid. I could be caught for this 'crime' anytime! Where I live so are there outlets that people use all over. Not only the stations, but the trains as well have them so that you can use your laptops on them without draining your batteries. Its absurd to actualy arrest a paying customer for using a service.

first to all, did you saw? the pic's girl it's pants'less

Our uni had a stand with all kinds of different phone chargers you could use. The stand was provided by some kind of operator but uni clearly didn't mind the electricity.

The outlet is there for a reason so use it!!!

Sorta reminds me about that time (I live in Hong Kong) where I brought a drink to a cafee I usually go over to and some jerk-off customer reported me to the regular staff (some of whom I knew) so I had to leave (didn't have any non-plastic on me that time). The staffer was kinda apologetic, but a bit overly concerned on later visits whether I'd bought or not. Most people are kewl with it though, 's long as you contribute fairly.

Spirit of the law I say. These are the seeds of their retarded call-ins.

The hell....

what the... i do it all the time, except with my LAPTOP.

They would of sentenced me to life in Jail for using random power connections to charge and use my laptop in college.

That pic is so hot!

shit, i did that at narita airport..

OH SHEEEEEIT.

And I do that all the time. I'd hoped they would only crack down on males they catch, but it seems my time is a'coming D':

LAWL.

Well, I'm glad not every Japanese person is so much a busybody, I've done this at Narita airport and at Ueno.. Tokyo.. Sendai.. Sasebo.. these days if there's an electrical socket in a public location, especially near public seating I think it's pretty much fair game.

With the sheer number of electronic devices these days it's almost a necessity. Portable battery rechargers are a sad substitute, and even the few paid recharging stations that you ever see are never convenient or accessible.

Goodness, then I should be arrested many times then.

I have decided! She is my wife

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...

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...

I blame animu, video games, and satanic rock music!

now im confused with japanese policies...

some things that you expact to be wrong are right and vice-versa...

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."

maybe the passerby was jealous because its his/her usual spot for charging his/her phone.. lol

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.

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!

holy crap a busy body that didn't have anything else to do.this is just retarded.

Police and people must be bored because Japan rarely has real criminals.

I guess the police is tired of dealing with sexual deviants...

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.

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?

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.

Maybe the plug wasn't directly to the railway station but an outplug to the railway station from somewhere else? I mean I see akiba idols connecting their system to the poles for power and start singing, or is stealing from a city government place against the law. Regardless I've come to wonder if there is even a person at all maybe just her friend got annoyed of her and needed an excuse to leave.

What a waste of time! Can't they catch any real criminals

0.3 yen = theft = XD

Bullshit, complimentary facilities (BATHROOMS) and other costly-yet-free services are expected. There's a maintenance budget for the impact of people, unless they started charging for ketchup packets and I didn't hear. They could probably organize a protest that abuses them all, but certainly doesn't touch the outlets.

Laws come in two flavors and need terms to distinguish them: the ones for the public good that are enforced, and the ones that are merely available to be used as tools.

Obviously there was some argument, someone got bitchy about "hey, what're you doing with that phone?", and they get technical with the word of the law. Authorities have protocol, not choice, they're bound to the word.

Here in Mexico, you see people shamelessly putting a cloth hanger in power lines and drawing their electricity from there. In poor neighborhoods it's not rare to see houses concentrated around power lines, with entire fucking forests of energized wires hanging from the posts.

This is excessive though... you can't do anything in Japan because otherwise you're gonna get arrested...

Oh great, next time we'll be hearing a schoolgirl getting arrested for using "free" Wi-Fi Internet access.

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

If they don't want people using them don't put them where you can reach them. Shows how stupid things can be

LOL. i do this all the time at the BART Station and stores that i visit whenever i sleep over at someones house and my phones low batt since i carry a charger around with with me. i have done it in front of security guards at the station and they could care less. I did this at Old Navy too and other clothings stores after asking the clerk since they have so many wall sockets all the store hahaha. pretty ghetto but it beats carrying a non-working cellphone. Of course this is only when i sleep over at people's houses since i carry a backpack full of goodies the whole time xP