[IP] Wireless Freeloader Charged Because He Never Bought Coffee
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From: eekid@xxxxxxx
Date: June 23, 2006 3:23:20 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Wireless Freeloader Charged Because He Never Bought Coffee
Wireless Freeloader Charged Because He Never Bought Coffee
By Gregg Keizer
Thu Jun 22, 6:32 PM ET
A Vancouver, Wash. coffee shop tired of seeing a 20-year-old man
mooch off their free wireless Internet access called the police, who
charged him with "theft of services."
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Brewed Awakenings employees dialed 911 after Alexander Eric Smith of
Battle Ground, Wash. piggybacked off the shop's wireless Internet
service for more than three months.
"He doesn't buy anything," Emily Pranger, the shop's manager, told
KATU, a Portland, Ore. television station. "It's not right for him to
come and use it."
Smith allegedly parked his truck in the parking lot to use Brewed
Awakenings' wireless access.
County deputies charged Smith with theft of services after returning
to the parking lot after they told him to stop. The crime, which
covers such crimes as bypassing a utility meter, stealing cable, and
leaving a restaurant without paying, has been used in the past to
prosecute hackers who have accessed a computer or network without
paying for it. "It's something that is borderline creepy," Pranger
said to KATU.
The Clark County sheriff's office and its prosecutors are reviewing
the case, the television station's Web site noted.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060623/tc_cmp/189600746
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