What’s funny about that is that he couldn’t have gotten more than 2 or 3 dollars worth of electricity.
Maybe a misdemeanor not even sure a judge would bother when the did the math but that is very rude. I can see the home owner being upset and worse yet parking in the grass. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 27, 2019, at 3:12 AM, brucedp5 via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > > https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a28524175/tesla-owner-steals-electricity-charging/ > Florida Man Parks His Tesla Overnight on a Stranger's Lawn to Steal > Electricity > Jul 26, 2019 Clifford Atiyeh > > [image > https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/screen-shot-2019-07-26-at-6-16-20-pm-1564179397.png > Tesla charging on front lawn / WPBF News > ] > > The owner of the Tesla Model 3 used an extension cord to plug in to a > complete stranger's outlet for 12 hours. > > This actually happened and is not a joke, as reported by WPBF 25 in Lake > Worth, Florida. > > A Tesla Model 3 was left outside on a homeowner's lawn for 12 hours to > charge using his electricity, all without his knowledge or permission. > > Please do not be this pathetic while driving an EV. > > Driving an electric car can sometimes make a calm person slide into bouts of > extreme desperation. That may be the kindest way to describe why a Florida > man ditched his Tesla on another person's lawn, stole electricity from that > house, and walked off to party with friends in the middle of the night. > > WPBF 25 television reported this exact scene in Lake Worth, a seaside locale > just south of West Palm Beach, that occurred last Friday. The Model 3 owner, > who was lucky to be unnamed in the story and have trespassing charges > dropped by the homeowner, said his car's battery had died on the way to a > friend's house around midnight. So, he figured, why not pull up onto a > stranger's front lawn and stretch a 120-volt cord to an external outlet—a > grounded plug surrounded by well-manicured landscaping, just perfect—and > leave the car for 12 hours? > > Homeowner Phil Phil Fraumeni said he woke up on that Friday morning to a > call from his landscaper asking him to move his white Model 3 off the lawn. > Fraumeni replied he didn't have a Model 3. Then he saw the friendly setup > that had been draining electricity while he slept. WPBF 25 said he waited > several hours for the car's owner to return before calling police, who then > tracked down the owner's address and waited some more for the man to show > up. He showed up, didn’t apologize, was told he'd committed a crime, and > that was that. What's more, he didn’t pay Fraumeni a red cent for the free > charge. > > Low batteries can do something to the human psyche. Range anxiety is still a > thing, no matter if a Tesla can comfortably travel 250-plus miles per > charge, when you're not following the car's prescribed instructions to > charge at precisely the right times. But when you screw up, you ... [get a > tow]. > [© caranddriver.com] > > > > > For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: > http://evdl.org/archive/ > > > {brucedp.neocities.org} > > -- > Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at 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 Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
