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.
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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.
lol, cunning selfish station go shut urself down...
The police sure responded fast. I wonder if she was charging her own phone while calling the cops as well.
Good thing she got charged! I hope she doesn't go rampaging on my streets and steal 3 hundredth of a yen worth of electricity!
I blame the schools. =\
I'll blame the phone company.... not even power supply in the battery LOLX!!!
It's the video game's fault, I tell you!
Kids these days think that just because they can recharge their mp at any save-point, they are allowed to recharge their phones at any wall sockets around the place!
In that case, The World Ends With You (where you save your progress via your mobile phone) is to be blamed. XD
But in TWEWY the phones were basically idle when they weren't receiving the mission mails...
Using the menus and text messaging don't take up so much battery power... An idle phone could probably last three weeks straight, I bet :P
Most win I've ever read online. Ever. As for me? I blame the rap music.
The kids, they listen to the rap, which makes them charge their phones in public, ya see?
I blame this to the breakdown of society
I blame the feminists.
i blame the feminazis
Epic.
blame the society
If she remains on the streets,in a few more years she'll steal a whole yen worth of electricity. The pandemonium that follows will be of epic proportions.
TERRORIST!!!I can`t believe terrorists this days are getting younger and more evil...I think she was part of a conspiracy to take over the world!!YEP that must be it!
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!
I'm proud of you. No seriously. Who cares anyway about this kind of "theft"?
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.
In the US the snitch would have gotten arrested for wasting the police's time and misusing emergency services.
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.
If she/he has just told the girl not to do that, her/his life would've been in grave danger. Such criminals are best to be handled in great force. >>
Zergling rush I say!
people are afraid to do things themselves, that lady could have gotten arrested for harassment of the poor thief
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
your waifu?
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 ???
Well the chargers are obviously meant to help the train molesters prepare by fully charging all their toys before the train arrives.
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
The mobile phone could've been a bomb. And the power socket was probably for lighting candles on some small christmas tree.
But on another note, to hell with the sticks, use tazers.
If they don't want people using them don't put them where you can reach them. Shows how stupid things can be
Oh great, next time we'll be hearing a schoolgirl getting arrested for using "free" Wi-Fi Internet access.