Dad arrested for plugging Nissan Leaf into school's outlet

The father of a student in Georgia is at tennis practice and sees an external power source. He begins to charge his car. A policeman sees him and says he will charge him with theft.

The charger was charged.

(Credit: USA Today screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) "A theft is a theft."
These are words that many a lawyer has used to justify condemning a thief to a sentence in the clink.
They are also the words of a police officer in Chamblee, Ga., after a man was caught in the alleged commission of a heinous crime.

Kaveh Kamooneh partook of 5 cents' worth of electricity that wasn't strictly his. As WXIA reports, Kamooneh was at Chamblee Middle School, where his 11-year-old son was gracing the tennis courts.
Perhaps the tennis practice was electric and this sparked Kamooneh to remember that his Nissan Leaf needed a little charge. He had some errands to do on the way home.

He spotted an external socket near the courts and availed himself of a little electricity. He spent 20 minutes charging his Leaf with nutrients.

When he got back inside his car, there was a strange man already there. He happened to be a policeman. This was not a happy policeman.

He informed Kamooneh that his charging would lead to charges for theft.
A warrant was issued and he received a visit at home from local lawmen. He was arrested for stealing electricity from the county without permission and spent 15 hours in jail.
"I think the fact that it's an electric car is irrelevant," Chamblee police Sergeant Ernesto Ford told WXIA-TV.

"I don't agree that every taking without consent is theft," Kamooneh told WXIA-TV. He explained that it's not as if anyone drinking from a spigot would be arrested.
"Cell phones, laptops are regularly charged without consent in public places or commercial places," he continued.