Using free wireless at library described as theft: No Public in the Public park coming soon.
This is an interesting story. The authoritarians amongst you will probably be happy that the police , kindly, gave him a chance and only arrested him for the second offense of being in public while using a service paid for by the tax dollars of community. Turns out he’s a serial (port killer?) user of free service wherever it can be located in AK which this blog reports the behavior (really all they needed to do was block his Mac address or rotate passes for their genuine customers calling the cops seems overkill.
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But, “in this particular case you know he’s feeding off something that we know the city of Palmer pays for and there are requirements to use it,”
This is the part of the story that bugs me the idea that you can steal from yourself. The city has no money other than that which it uses it’s armed tax collectors ( da cops) to collect..