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Teen Allegedly Broke Into a Couple's Home To Ask For Their WiFi Password, Police Say (washingtonpost.com)
A 17-year-old has been accused of breaking into a couple's home in Northern California and asking for their WiFi password, hours after he had asked nearby neighbors for theirs, authorities said. From a report: Police in Palo Alto said the teen, whose name has not been released, went to a home in Silicon Valley late Saturday and asked to use the residents' WiFi network "because he was out of data," before stealing their bicycle. Then just after midnight Sunday, police said, he broke into a nearby home, woke up a sleeping couple and asked them for their password. The male resident "pushed him down the hallway and out the front door of the house before calling police," police said in a statement. Palo Alto Police Sgt. Dan Pojanamat told The Washington Post on Friday that it's unclear whether the juvenile suspect was really seeking WiFi access or whether it was simply an excuse, saying that "the real issue is the fact that he entered a house that was occupied."
Oh, right...this is CA, where you can't really own a gun much anymore.
Well, most anywhere else in the US, breaking in and waking the folks up is just asking for a bad case of lead poisoning.
How fucking stupid are people getting these days?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Everyone knows the password is written on the router.
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How the fuck did American parents raise their children this last generation? Jesus.
Wow, porn addiction makes some people do crazy things.
Trump stupid? Federal prison stupid? Lying to Mueller stupid? You're right, people are fucking morons - mostly people you associate with though, Cayenne faggot traitor lol
Stupid enough to get into an argument over a handicapped parking spot, then kill the person trying to get you to stop
The person who was killed was the poor bastard who had stopped with his family IN the handicapped spot. It was a Circle A regular who was pissed someone was using the handicap spot without using a tag and decided that warranted slaughtering a father in front of his kids, just because he was pushed to the ground while yelling at them.
No way was that a stand your ground situation. That was murder.
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Police say, Police said, Police are saying -- ALL REFER TO THE SAME SUBJECT. Stop this. I don't know what School is teaching kids to write like that but it's HORRIBLE.
You don't need to keep refering to it if your source isn't changing. Not to mention that opens you up to biasd narratives by selectively quoting without context.
Should have been asking "what's the frequency?"
The police said the real problem was breaking into an *occupied* house (emphasis mine). Isn't the real problem the fact that the individual broke into a house that wasn't his? The fact that the house was or was not occupied shouldn't be a mitigating circumstance.
His excuse "looking for a WiFi password" isn't a good reason to enter a home that didn't belong to him (trying to find a phone to call 911 for someone dying would be a good excuse in my opinion [if true]). Based on the other circumstances described in the article, I'm disinclined to believe that he was just looking for a WiFi password. Sounds more like a very troubled youth getting kicks acting out. Hopefully the police/justice system will give him the consequences he needs.
All of the discussion about whether or not he could have/should have been shot is moot. He wasn't (fortunately). But the event is certainly a signal that action is required to head off a future problem.
The real issue is the fact that he entered a house that was occupied.
-Sgt. Dan Pojanamat
No, Dan. The issue is the fact that he broke into a house that wasn't his. The fact the it was occupied means you can't just ignore it this time.
Fix your fucking city.
He had a canned excuse ready just in case he ran into a resident while trying to burglarize the home.
From TFA:
Police said surveillance video showed that he had moved the bicycle from their backyard to their front yard before asking for their password. When the residents told him to leave, police said, he rode away on it.
Did he need to move the bike to the front yard before asking for a password? The cops likely know this, and it's only newsworthy because his prepared lie was so ridiculous.
Fun fact: The city of Palo Alto offers free WiFi to residents and visitors.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Honestly, the part where he specifically woke the people up makes me think this is more a case of mental illness than burglary.
I think it was polite for him to ask nicely rather than say hacking in and stealing it.
being light on common sense doesn't necessarily mean you're not good for something else. There's no shortage of math experts who are also autistic you know. We shouldn't be so quick to kill something just because it's not immediately useful. We sent mother-f'ing physicists to die in the trenches of WWI before we figured out they could make bombs and rockets.
The stupid ones aren't the occasional dumb kid who does something for who knows what reason, but the folks who's response to any wrong doing is to call for blood. That kind of crap is what got the US in 8 pointless wars and counting post 9/11 (seriously, look it up).
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"the real issue is the fact that he entered a house that was occupied."
Had it been unoccupied, of course, that would be totally fine.
Yet you support trump wholesale.
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Ha!
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He should have been declared an undocumented family member, been given the right all the rights any other member of the family is entitled to, including the router's admin password. Anybody insisting he be removed should have immediately been accused of being a racist, sexist, homophobe, islamophobe.
Surely world-famous NAZI collaborator George Soros will pony-up the money for this idiot to sue to assert all his rights to live in this home he entered while merely lacking the proper documents. If George isn't available, the progressives who run the place will find tax dollars for him.
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Clearly he was not able to do so, possibly because he was a fucking moron who broke into someones house to ask for their wifi password. If this is not a clear case of internet addiction then I don't know what is.
There are three kinds of falsehood: the first is a 'fib,' the second is a downright lie, and the third is statistics.
be against clearly reasonable stand your ground laws
There's no such thing as reasonable SYG laws. It basically lowers a shooter's responsibility for the death they chose to inflict. They're out in the public, they're not held responsible to avoid situations potentially "requiring" the use of their firearm, and they basically state "I thought my life was in jeopardy at that moment", and it doesn't matter whether the potential threat was armed.
We live in a legal system where the state must prove guilty "beyond reasonable doubt", "presumed innocent" until proven otherwise, and cannot be prosecuted for the same crime once rendered "not guilty" by the jury, regardless whether the jury, judge, or prosecutors erred. That standard should readily acquit any person firing in actual self defense. What SYG does is excuse the shooter for contributing to the shooting situation, and make any doubt argument a credible legal defense against conviction. Forget the fact that any clueless jackass can now carry a killing device, play LEO, drive a 1/4 of a mile, put himself in a dangerous situation, and kill an unarmed teen. SYG basically gives any person the right to act belligerently towards another person, in a state that gives him the right to carry a killing weapon, use it to kill the person, and then claim "I thought my life was in peril so I fired first rather than avoid a situation where I may need to kill".
Inside one's home in most states you're fine shooting an intruder without that person having committed an overt act against you because breaking in is overt act enough.
No one is getting shot accidentally when the perpetrator is breaking into a house they don't belong there. If they're too mentally compromised to avoid breaking into a house, the benefit of the doubt should be given to the homeowner. Even LEOs aren't supposed to be breaking into houses without a warrant; they're fair game to be shot by the homeowner as well.
The alternative is that you believe it's OK to have the state require you to attempt to run away from, say, an armed robber or even just one who out-muscles you. Such an action is akin to the state requiring you to attempt suicide because that's what it is.
No, it is not. In every mugging, overwhelmingly both the perp and the victim survive the encounter. Apparently, you seem to feel you have the right to shoot dead someone who attempts to mug you. Fine, but now the perpetrator can shoot you first in the parking lot if they know you're packing a gun, and say "he pulled the gun on me, so I shot him first. SYG". As long as there were no witnesses, and he didn't try to take your credit cards, he gets off scot free for murder. I'm not going to even waste my time explaining how this law gets applied for KKK members.
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