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-owner-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)
