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’.”

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Your post doesn't conform to their prejudice

[Anonymous Coward]

Only government can be wrong. If any problems exist, it must be government. Therefore your post will be ignored because it tries to blame the person who is actually at fault, and it's not government.

Because we pay government.

Apparently these people steal all the goods they require and therefore don't pay private industry at all.

On this actual subject, this is 100% LOL worthy and really did have me snigger because I'm thinking "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK ELECTRICAL SOCKETS ARE FOR YOU DUMBASS!!!".

This is 100% absolutely an asshole and the subservience to private authority by virtue of being fucking wealthy and not a problem with government, but with the slavery of the proletariat by monied power.

And, yes, that DOES sound socialist.

Why? Because just like government can be a problem in abusing power, power given to capital is ALSO a problem.

Re:Your post doesn't conform to their prejudice

[mysidia]

If they're not for use by the public, then they should not be visible from public space, or the receptacle should be enclosed in a box that has to be lifted or opened for access. Simply attaching a label or sign to a publicly visible receptacle is not sufficient, since people won't notice the sign, and the receptacle itself is basically a universal sign for power available.

Re:iPhone

[Zocalo]

Probably because iPhone users needing constant power top-ups has become something of a standing joke; every time you hear of someone doing something crazy, desperate and/or illegal to do this it's almost always for an iPhone, so it entertains the majority of reader/viewers who will not own an iPhone (Apple's market share is "Hah! Another iPhone user caught short of power! LOL!" There's probably a grain of truth to it too; it's not the kind of story I actively seek out and I'm sure there are instances of another brand of phone being involved in incidents like this, but off the top of my head I don't recall ever coming across any and it's always the iPhone users that seem to be going around the office asking if anyone has a charger they can borrow.