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Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train
An anonymous reader writes: 45-year-old Robin Lee was arrested after he used a socket on a London Overground train to charge up his iPhone. He was handcuffed and arrested for "abstracting electricity". Robin was then charged with "unacceptable behaviour" after "becoming aggressive" when objecting to his first arrest. The Guardian reports: "Speaking to the Evening Standard, Lee said he had been confronted by a police community support officer on the overground train from Hackney Wick to Camden Road on 10 July. The Overground is part of Transport For London’s wider network that also includes London Underground and the buses. 'She said I’m abstracting electricity. She kept saying it’s a crime. We were just coming into the station and there happened to be about four police officers on the platform. She called to them and said: ‘This guy’s been abstracting electricity, he needs to be arrested’.”
You do realize this is the UK? We don't use dollars here. I agree however, with the sentiment of your post.
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Oh. I guess it does mean what you think it means. Carry on then.
It's a power-trip thing. For the arresting officer, I mean... not the phone.
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...he would have used 0.1 UK cents worth of electricity...
grrr.... it's "pence" not "cents".
If you're going to go all the effort of converting to GBP, you could have at least got that right, couldn't you?
Calling a penny a "UK cent" is an understandable slip, but your use of decimals and units seems to be spot on. Have you consider Verizon customer "care" as a career path?
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"a 45-year-old artist based in Islington"
Get a proper job, you stupid fucking hipster.
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Yes, and there was a recent incident where a cleaner was arrested for plugging his vacuum cleaner into one of those sockets.
True, here in the united states the cop would empty his gun into you for using a unauthorized outlet.
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Yup. Let's spend thousands of dollars worth of man-hours and paperwork and court time over 10 cents worth of electricity.
RTFA - this is not about something trivial as that; this guys was ABSTRACTING electricity!! Fortunately they got him before he got to the extended metaphors; a close call. Too damn close for comfort!
One does not charge a Nokia, one simply unpacks it and then uses it while it refuses to die despite all your best efforts.
Yeah, and then some asshole would ruin it for everyone by driving his Smart ED inside the train to charge it.
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