A Brit found out the other day that loading a iPhone may be more dangerous than he imagines, and this is not because he used a counterfeit charger with a similar cable, but because he did it in an apparently unauthorized place.
Robin Lee is the name of the 45-year-old man who lives in Islington, he was arrested by the London police after he was seen charging his iPhone terminal at one of the outlets of the subway car in which he was traveling to London one morning.
The man was warned by a policeman on the train that those sockets in the carriages are intended only for people who carry out cleaning work in the respective carriages, passengers not having the right to use those sockets to charge their mobile terminals or anything else.
After this warning, the man was waited for in a train station by London police officers who arrested him and accused him of stealing electricity from the subway car he was traveling with, he was also accused of being assaulted at the time the apparent crime was brought to his attention.
A man was arrested under suspicion of stealing electricity after he tried to charge his iPhone in a socket on a train. Robin Lee, 45, an artist who lives in Islington, north London, was stopped by police following the incident on an overground train last Friday. He plugged his iPhone into a socket on the train but was approached by a police community support officer on board who warned him he was illegally extracting electricity. The sockets on overground trains are reserved for the use of cleaning staff.
Of course, the police released him in a very short time and for now it is not known if he will be investigated for the theft of electricity from the subway car, but the story itself is as embarrassing as it is comical, especially in a country that boast a high degree of civilization.
To be honest, it is downright ridiculous that a person should be treated in such a way for simply charging an iPhone terminal at an outlet, this in the conditions where a device of this kind consumes very little current, but those from London have a different opinion.
