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Teen Allegedly Broke Into a Couple's Home To Ask For Their WiFi Password, Police Say (washingtonpost.com)

Posted by msmash on from the real-needs dept.

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."

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  1. Re:The real problem? by Stormy+Dragon · · Score: 3, Informative

    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).

  2. Re:Sounds like a good way... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... neither are home invasions much of a thing outside movies.

    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

    ===
    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.