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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."
Gonna go out on a limb here and say the kid has a mental illness that needs treatment. How else do you explain someone being "out of data" and deciding to pester not one, but two houses late at night for their wifi password? And when shoved out of the house, just casually rides off with one of their bikes as well. Something doesn't add up, that is way too bizarre.
Yes, home invasion is generally a form of aggravated burglary instead of an entirely separate offense, but they're not the same crime.
Again, to take Pennsylvania as an example (18 PA Cons Stat 3502), burglarizing an unoccupied building is a felony of the second degree (maximum sentence 10 years), burglarizing an occupied building is a felony of the first degree (maximum sentence 20 years).
WRONG !!!!!
"Between 2003 and 2007--
*A household member was home in 28% of the 3.7 million average
annual burglaries that occurred between 2003 and 2007 (table
1). "
I'll save you the trouble of doing the math :
Between 2003 and 2007, there were 1,036,000 home invasions.
From :
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/ascii/vdhb.txt
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Seriously, if you are too lazy to back up your absurdly inaccurate claims with 15 seconds doing research, then you need to SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Police say a couple in their 60s woke up in their Palo Alto, California bedroom around midnight last Saturday to find someone looming above them wearing a mask, or possibly a black T-shirt covering their face. The intruder asked for their wifi password.
According to a city press release, one of the residents sprung to action, shoving the intruder down the hallway and out of the house. The couple then called the police, which found the suspect a block away from the house.
Police arrested the 17-year-old suspect for prowling, residential burglary, and providing false information about his identity. The police department did not reveal his name as he is a minor.
Police think the suspect entered the house from the side yard after cutting open a screen window-covering, but could not initially determine a motive. Officers say they did not find any weapons on the teen, but the resident told police that two kitchen knives had gone missing.
Officers believe this is not the only time the teen trespassed in an apparent search for wifi that evening. Someone else had called 911, reporting that around midnight last Saturday she saw a teenage male in the yard outside her bedroom window, trying to get her attention.
She and a male resident allegedly confronted the intruder, who told them he didn’t have any data left and wanted to use their wifi. They told him to leave. They didn’t call the police until the next day when the male resident noticed his bike was missing from the backyard. Security footage showed the teen had moved the bike to the front yard before going to the window to ask for wifi.
Police later found the bike near where they had arrested the suspect. Officers are recommending the District Attorney add a charge of petty theft.
https://gizmodo.com/teen-burgl...
There is no black and white, right or wrong. You ask 1000 people from different places, times and backgrounds and you'll get a surprising amount of variation, and a lot of ifs, buts and maybe's.
To suggest that your particular set of rights and wrongs are the correct set is pure arrogance.