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Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications

Posted by michael on from the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction dept.

BiggsTheCat writes "A number of news sources are reporting that a Toronto man is the first to be charged with "theft of communications" (Canadian Criminal Code S. 342.1) for downloading child pornography using someone else's residential wireless network. The "War Driver" was caught naked from the waist down driving the wrong way down a one-way street, with a laptop in hand. The Edmonton Sun warns that 'War Driving ... is becoming more and more common among perverts trying to avoid online detection'. Yeah."

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  1. Weird by SargeZT · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought Michael Jackson was driving through Las Vegas last night, not Canada.

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  2. Oh my... by Loki_1929 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The "War Driver" was caught naked from the waist down driving the wrong way down a one-way street, with a laptop in hand [downloading child pornography]."

    I should think that perhaps the "Theft of Communications" charge is the least of this individual's problems. That's really one for the record books there, almost to the point of being a publicity stunt of some sort. Naked from the waist down, driving the wrong way on a one-way street, using a laptop, and downloading child pornography. What do you say to something like that? I mean that for each person.

    [Suspect] "There a... problem officer?"

    [Officer] "Do you know why I pulled you over?"

    -blank stare-

    [Officer] "You were driving the wrong way down this one-way street."

    [Suspect] "Oh my, well I'm sorry about that, officer..."

    [Officer] "Well, I'm afraid I'm going to have to write you a... hey, where are your pants?!"

    [Suspect] "Oh.. well.. I'm getting them clea..." -gets cut off by cop-

    [Officer] "What is that? Are you using a laptop computer while driving sir??"

    [Suspect] "Well, I uhh..." -gets cut off again-

    [Officer] "What the HELL is that??!! Is that child pornography??!! Oh God..

    [Suspect] "No, no! It's not what you think!"

    [Officer] "Just where the hell are you getting that from?! Oh, so you're connected to someone's wireless internet from here???"

    -Cop thinks to himself: "how the hell am I going to write this one up?"

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