Ga. Man Arrested for Charging His Electric Car at Local Middle School
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/ga-man-arrested-charging-electric-car-local-middle/story?id=21098590
Police in a Georgia town arrested a man for using a local school's power to charge his electric car while his son received tennis lessons.
Kaveh Kamooneh, 50, admits that he had charged his car multiple times on the school's property but he says he didn't know he wasn't permitted to do so. The value of electricity used during the charging isn't clear but it was likely in the pennies range, Kamooneh said.
"I'm waiting for them to arrest water drinkers and cell phone chargers," said Kamooneh, a former university professor who is now an investment advisor.
Kamooneh's son had received tennis lessons at the school for about five weeks when one Saturday last month, the tennis instructor told Kamooneh that he saw someone in his white Nissan Leaf electric car, parked about 35 feet away from the tennis court.
Kamooneh said a Chamblee policeman was inside his car, with one foot outside.
"I wasn't sure what was going on. I asked him why he was in my car. He was very uninterested in answering my question," Kamooneh said. "I asked him at least one more time."
Kamooneh said he noticed the car was unplugged and the charger was on the ground. After providing his driver's license and asking for the officer's information, he said he was later told that his car was abandoned on public property.
According to the Chamblee police report, the police officer wrote, "I asked him why his vehicle was plugged into the power at the school. He told me that was an excepted [sic] practice and that I was making to [sic] much of it. I asked him if he has [sic] asked the Dekalb County school system if he could take the power. He told me that I did not ask if my patrol car can dirty the air -- did you? He says 'No you did not'."
Later a police sergeant came and Kamooneh provided his phone number and information.
