Anyone who leaves the door open a minute too long and lets cold air in while entering the school is probably guilty of costing the school more.......
Z On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:47 AM, brucedp5 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > http://www.11alive.com/news/article/314666/186/DeKalb-electric-car-owner-charged-with-stealing-5-cents-worth-of-juice > Electric car owner charged with stealing 5 cents worth of juice > by Doug Richards Dec 3, 2013 > > [video > http://www.11alive.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=2890461312001 > ] > > CHAMBLEE, Ga. -- 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 eleven 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." > > "A theft is a theft," Sgt. Ford said. When asked if he'd make the arrest > again, he answered: "Absolutely." > [© 2013 WXIA-TV] > > > > > For all EVLN posts use: > > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date > > Here are today's archive-only EV posts: > > EVLN: EVs are good for business and changing the business-world > EVLN: California Should Also Subsidize Level-1 Charging At Work > EVLN: €5k "Scrap-ice for an EV" Malta Grant > EVLN: R446k Leaf EV blows into Johannesburg SA > EVLN: 2015 VW e-Golf: when blue cost$ green > + > EVLN: Return of the BMW Mini E EV? > > > {brucedp.150m.com} > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-EV-owner-charged-w-stealing-0-05-worth-of-juice-video-tp4666537.html > Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131204/a1ab93bd/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
