Electric car owner charged with stealing 5 cents worth of electricity from school

[Deberg_1990]

Wtf??



http://www.wtsp.com/news/watercooler...c-car-owner-ar









CHAMBLEE, Ga. (11ALIVE.com) -- One Saturday in November, Kaveh Kamooneh drove his Nissan Leaf to Chamblee Middle School, where his 11-year-old son took was playing tennis.

Kamooneh had taken the liberty of charging the electric car with an exterior outlet at the school. Within minutes of plugging in the car, he says a Chamblee police officer appeared.

"He said that he was going to charge me with theft by taking because I was taking power, electricity from the school," Kamooneh said. Kamooneh says he had charged his car for twenty minutes, drawing about a nickel's worth of juice.

Don Francis of Clean Cities Atlanta, an electric vehicle advocacy group, says the estimate of five cents is accurate.

"I'm not sure how much electricity he stole," said Chamblee police Sergeant Ernesto Ford, but he added: It doesn't matter. "He broke the law. He stole something that wasn't his."

Sgt. Ford says the officer should have arrested Kamooneh on the spot, but he didn't. Instead, the officer filed a police report. Then 11 days passed, and two deputies showed up at his house in Decatur.

"They arrested me here at about eight o'clock at night," Kamooneh said.

Ford said he sought the arrest warrant after determining that school officials hadn't given Kamooneh permission to plug in his car. Ford said Chamblee Police did so without asking school officials if they wanted to prosecute the alleged theft of electricity. A DeKalb Schools spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

Records show Kamooneh spent more than 15 hours in the DeKalb County Jail for plugging his car into a school's electrical outlet.

Kamooneh acknowledges he hadn't asked permission first. "When I got there, there was nobody there. It was a Saturday morning," he said.

"A theft is a theft," Sgt. Ford said. When asked if he'd make the arrest again, he answered: "Absolutely."

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by chiefsncats

I hope the cop and police chief don't plug in their iphone at different places they go during the day, because, on principal, that is the exact same thing as plugging in a car.

I don't think you should speak for the principal, he doesn't appear to have been involved.

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by Big Smoke

Cop clearly should have unloaded his entire clip into this scumbag.

[Mr. Flopnuts]

More than anything else this is just another waste of resources, tax dollars, and another instance of police getting too big for their britches. It's like undergoing an exhaustive investigation to prove someone ****ing jaywalked. GMAFB.

And it will continue. Because we don't stand up collectively and fight it. If it's not our own rights being trampled on, we just don't give a ****. And when it is our rights, shockingly enough no one else gives a ****. Dog eat dog world, and it's becoming us against us.

[Bugeater]

While it's pretty weak, I don't have an issue with the theft charge. But him spending 15 hours in jail 11 days later for it is deplorable.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Dayze

gone are the days of a cop making you poor out your beer when you're underage drinking at a party.

now you get 30yrs to life.

true

[Demonpenz]

Magazine is such a ****ing lame term...clip sounds better. I unloaded my magazine into the jerk just sounds like you are handing him April's Good Housekeeping.

[teedubya]

I totally ganked some juice at Chipotle for my phone!

You've been struck by... a smooooooth criminal.

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

While it's pretty weak, I don't have an issue with the theft charge. But him spending 15 hours in jail 11 days later for it is deplorable.

That's how I feel. He absolutely did break the law, but write him a ticket and be done with it.

[WhawhaWhat]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

Magazine is such a ****ing lame term...clip sounds better. I unloaded my magazine into the jerk just sounds like you are handing him April's Good Housekeeping.

Nate Dogg would have had a tough time fitting that into the flow of the verse as well.

[Demonpenz]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

Nate Dogg would have had a tough time fitting that into the flow of the verse as well.

ole Nate is having trouble doing anything these days.

[WhawhaWhat]

Originally Posted by teedubya

I totally ganked some juice at Chipotle for my phone!

You've been struck by... a smooooooth criminal.

That's an interesting point. If you plug your phone in at the school or any other public place, can you be arrested for it now?

[BigMeatballDave]

Mega facepalm

[TLO]

Originally Posted by Demonpenz

Magazine is such a ****ing lame term...clip sounds better. I unloaded my magazine into the jerk just sounds like you are handing him April's Good Housekeeping.

[teedubya]

Shouldn't he have only spent 20 minutes in jail? I'm not sure the penalty and the punishment are equal here, you guys.

[KINGPIN CHIEFS FAN]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

That's an interesting point. If you plug your phone in at the school or any other public place, can you be arrested for it now?

Only if you use your car charger in your Nissan Leaf while you're stealing electricity to recharge your car in the state of Georgia and you have an Indian sounding name!