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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’.”
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.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Yes, and there was a recent incident where a cleaner was arrested for plugging his vacuum cleaner into one of those sockets.
One does not charge a Nokia, one simply unpacks it and then uses it while it refuses to die despite all your best efforts.