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."

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Re:Amateur

[Opportunist]

So I wasn't the only one wondering. If you already break into a home, why not search for the fucking router. 9 out of 10 times you break into a home where the router is from the ISP and the WiFi Password is noted right on it. And that odd time when you actually manage to break into a geek's home, well, try it next door.

No, Dan

[sexconker]

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.

Re: Sounds like a good way...

[c6gunner]

New rule: no drinking, driving, sex, or voting until 25.

Nobody will pay attention to the first three, but the last one will ensure democrats never get elected again so it sounds like a good idea to me ...

Um... no it's not

[rsilvergun]

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).