Comments on: Your new favorite band: Larceny of Electric Power

By: Hoopy Frood

Hoopy Frood — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:51:39 +0000

Wow. Is that a stated/posted policy somewhere, or is it just an unwritten rule they enforce?
Because destroying someone’s personal property is a good way to lose customers & employees…

By: Hoopy Frood

Hoopy Frood — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:46:22 +0000

Compared to NC, Pittsburgh is Cary Grant.

By: kwame

kwame — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:03:13 +0000

Hi all. By sheer coincidence, I also discussed the sign with my undergraduate students. One of the students discovered this website and passed it along to me. About a month ago, I complained about this sign to the WSTA manager. Roughly 3 weeks later they changed the signs. You can have a look at the new sign here: http://www.evernote.com/shard/s108/sh/6fc80aa2-443c-46eb-befe-fa81d8cd0df8/9df100d48d99991b3ad75dda22b6a43c

By: Bee

Bee — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:32:27 +0000

I lived in Osaka for a while, and walked through a major transit centre’s big open courtyard on my way to work. The courtyard was full of powerpoints, and I lost count of the number of times I’d see girls crouched beside the powerpoints with their hair straighteners plugged in, doing their hair. I don’t ever recall any of them being charged with larceny of electric power…

By: Elly

Elly — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:48:37 +0000

I’m pretty sure Joan Rivers is guilty of Gravity Fraud in the first degree.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:33:45 +0000

This happened to me. Some Jackass waiter in a NJ diner wouldn’t let me plug in my computer at a diner while actually trying to eat something. This was back in 2000 before everyone had a laptop. I ended up plugging it in anyway and he got mad at me. I am not sure what the hell his deal was, you would think a waiter would understand a guy having to work for a living. It was also on my 22 birthday. Talk about being a crappy day. I don’t really remember the name of the diner, but if i did, i sure as hell would have given them a bad review (if they had that sort of thing back then)

By: Zak

Zak — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:46:17 +0000

On the London Underground, they use a socket design that’s slightly different to the UK standard to prevent people plugging devices in. The cleaning staff use plugs on their machines that fit the ‘Walsall Gauge 13 A’ sockets.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS_1363

By: Harmy G

Harmy G — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:48:01 +0000

“IF you see a faded sign at the side of the road that says 15 miles to the Love Shack…”

They never do tell you what to do IF…

By: SalemGirl

SalemGirl — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:37:08 +0000

lol! I saw that the other day and I couldn’t even believe it. Way to go WSTA.

By: jugstopper

jugstopper — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:09:08 +0000

I am pretty sure that Larceny of Electric Power was a spinoff of ELO (The Electric Light Orchestra.)

By: Seanette

Seanette — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:11:06 +0000

I SO wish that were true. If it were, bus/train riders wouldn’t have to endure all the Jerry Springer guest-wannabes screaming all their TMI about themselves and everyone around them into their phones.

By: The Elf

The Elf — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:50:03 +0000

Sure. I have a cell phone and I use buses to commute sometimes.

By: Noelegy

Noelegy — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:46:46 +0000

That cracks me up, it does. How would one commit Gravity Fraud?

By: Noelegy

Noelegy — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:44:25 +0000

Well, I don’t know about that…in November of last year, a group of free-range 12-to-14-year-olds pushed a man in front of one of the DART (Dallas) trains because he wouldn’t give them his iPhone. The man was dragged by the train, his leg severed, and died almost immediately.