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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."
How fucking stupid are people getting these days?
Stupid enough to get into an argument over a handicapped parking spot, then kill the person trying to get you to stop who didn't use deadly force, but apparently should have since that would have been the safest course.
Oh, and don't forget shooting somebody in a movie theater after you went out to get your gun because they wouldn't stop using their cellphone during the trailers.
It's also a problem for the police, like the ones who randomly decided to make an arrest. Or there's the police officer who assaulted somebody who was in handcuffs and offering no substantial threat.
So people are very stupid, yes. Too stupid to be trusted with the use of force.
The only injustice in the circle k invident is that the man who was shot had successfully spread his stupid and violent nature by virtue of spreading his genes.
Castle Doctrine. It's kind of like getting modded down. Permanently.
Play nice with others, respect society and your neighbors as much as you respect yourself, and perhaps you'll get modded up.