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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (8691)	6/23/2006 11:35:27 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 14758

WiFi user charged for not buying coffee Gregg Keizer TechWeb.com (06/22/2006 6:32 PM EDT) 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." 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.

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (8691)	6/23/2006 1:35:01 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Highway robbers show leap of inspiration (gang risks certain death for $1200 worth of hula hoops) Reuters ^ \| 06/23/06 Beijing police have detained a gang of thieves who pulled off a high-speed, highway heist straight out of a Hollywood action movie. Police patrolling a Beijing freeway saw several people "surfing" on top of a van as it pulled alongside a truck loaded with cargo, the Beijing News said Friday. "The men leapt from the van onto the truck's trailer and started throwing back bags of a white-colored substance" into the moving van, the paper said. After several kilometres, the men leapt back on to the van and sped away. Police later intercepted the van, the thieves and a one-ton cache of polyethylene, used originally in making hula hoops, worth more than 10,000 yuan ($1,250). The newspaper did not say how the thieves managed to grab their loot undetected by the driver. The polyethylene grab was not the first of its kind -- police have reported several incidents of leapfrog larceny on Beijing's highways in the last couple of years.