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.
United states hers, and I never see anyone complain about people charging their phones, unless you could a lack of sockets open. Waste the cops, and the 110(rescue operator?) time. Whoever called that in should be jailed for a night for that.
“Theft is theft, even three hundredths of a yen.”
If so, then I want to sue my country for stealing my tax! They took my tax and they put it on their pockets! Theft is Theft, right?
It probably costed hundreds or thousands of times more tax just to warn her than what she “took”…
Now THAT’S what I call theft.
It’s funny that one stingy f***ing cheapskate called the police for this, but it’s ridiculous that they came.
If Monty Python were still around, it would be movie magic.
The hell….