This is from Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley.
A woman noticed a strange man in her backyard during the night. She aroused another male resident of the house and together they confronted the intruder. The intruder said he wanted to use their wifi since he had used up all of his data. When they told him to get lost, he rode off on a bicycle. Only later did they notice that a bicycle had been stolen from their yard. They called police.
Not long after, a couple asleep at home in a different house detected an intruder walking around inside their house. They confronted him and he demanded to use their wifi, since he had run out of data. One resident shoved him out of the house while the other dialed the police. The police located and arrested him. The stolen bike from the other house was nearby. The intruder had entered the house by cutting through a screen over a window, and several kitchen knives were found to be missing (luckily he didn't use them on the sleeping couple).
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/07/3...-use-wifi/
My guess is that this kid (he was 17) was doing home invasion burglaries, entering what he hoped were unoccupied houses whose owners were away and stealing anything of value. The wifi thing was probably just an excuse he used when confronted.
He's lucky this was Palo Alto and not a place where he would have been more likely to get shot breaking into other people's homes at night.
(And the residents are lucky he didn't kill them).
A woman noticed a strange man in her backyard during the night. She aroused another male resident of the house and together they confronted the intruder. The intruder said he wanted to use their wifi since he had used up all of his data. When they told him to get lost, he rode off on a bicycle. Only later did they notice that a bicycle had been stolen from their yard. They called police.
Not long after, a couple asleep at home in a different house detected an intruder walking around inside their house. They confronted him and he demanded to use their wifi, since he had run out of data. One resident shoved him out of the house while the other dialed the police. The police located and arrested him. The stolen bike from the other house was nearby. The intruder had entered the house by cutting through a screen over a window, and several kitchen knives were found to be missing (luckily he didn't use them on the sleeping couple).
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/07/3...-use-wifi/
My guess is that this kid (he was 17) was doing home invasion burglaries, entering what he hoped were unoccupied houses whose owners were away and stealing anything of value. The wifi thing was probably just an excuse he used when confronted.
He's lucky this was Palo Alto and not a place where he would have been more likely to get shot breaking into other people's homes at night.
(And the residents are lucky he didn't kill them).