Since it appears that the owner of the Leaf has lied about just about everthing else (his son is reported to be not attending the school that he was playing at as he claimed; he was not watching his son play; he claimed initially that he was not the owner of the car; he claimed that the officer damaged the vehicle and so on) so it would not surprise me if this is another one of those, where the officer was just inspecting a reported vehicle, parked illegally in a loading zone and apparently stealing electricity. So the owner might report the fact that the officer tried and found the doors unlocked as "police sitting in the car". Unless you were there and saw what happened, there is no way to know what really happened unless witnesses confirm, the owner has been sending so many half-truths and sensationalist stories into the world that I am wondering what his agenda is.
Unfortunately, I find this mentality too often where people are only interested in their own gain and what they think they are entitled to, without concern for others. The other day I was biking along a busy road when a SUV drifted out of his lane and into the bike lane, so he passed me narrowly at a good clip, close to the speed limit which is 50MPH there. I yelled and the driver corrected and steered back into his lane. The next light he had to wait, so I caught up to him and knocked on the closed window to talk to the driver, but this startled the passenger. So as soon as the window opened, he started that I had no right to scare his girlfriend, that I had to watch out not to damage the glass in his new car and that he was a lawyer so he would deal with me if I made any trouble. And that he heard me yell, so that he had already stopped to talk with me, so I did not need to be so upset. Not a single word of apology for almost hitting me, just all about himself. Unfortunately I do recognise that attitude from the time that I lived in India - while the majority of people there are very friendly and outgoing, there is a group that is all about entitlement and they will even scold a police officer if he dares to stop them... Sounds familiar? (I know - the Leaf owner is from a different Asian country, the point is not the specific country, I like India and the people there, it is just that I recognise the attitude-problem) Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Grasser Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 8:21 AM To: 'Electric Vehicle Discussion List' Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: EV owner charged w/ stealing $0.05 worth ofjuice (video) Everything I have read on this has made no mention that the officer was found sitting in his car when he returned to it. I would have a real problem with someone sitting in my car. Is there no statute or rule about someone taking up residence in someone else's vehicle? Just wondering. I don't think the cost has much to do with it. It's the perceived injustice that someone has broken the rules. Most of us feel this, but the intensity varies person to person and with circumstances. Rules facilitate humans living together without conflict. Most of us don't like to see them violated, no matter how slight the variation. We feel that we live by the rules even though life would be much easier for us if we didn't in some cases, so everyone should, and we are being cheated when they don't. We don't like to see someone "getting over" the rest of us. It doesn't help that most people have no idea of the cost of the electric to charge the vehicle, and usually think it is orders of magnitude more than actual, since their reference is purchasing several gallons of gas. As with all news stories, we don't know the details, so it could be there were things that intensified the officer's feelings as some have said. Myself, I've never even considered plugging in somewhere without first asking permission and offering to pay, because it is stealing, and no matter how slight and harmless, it may well not be perceived as slight by the owner for the above reason. It is an affront, you took without asking, whereas if you had asked, the owner may well have said "sure, go ahead." I liked the unintended consequences comment - causing power to go out to a fridge or something else more important. I hadn't thought of that, and it is quite possible. -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-EV-own er-charged-w-stealing-0-05-worth-of-juice-video-tp4666537p4666572.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) _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
