This sounds like a situation that was just blown out of partition. An officer who cares about the theft of five cents on a single occasion is an officer with to

This sounds like a situation that was just blown out of partition. An officer who cares about the theft of five cents on a single occasion is an officer with too much free time. Does he realize how much his five minutes cost tax payers when he was telling this guy about how he stole? And seriously? Stole! Five cents of electricity from a public school? The guy's a tax payer (assumption), therefore, if you follow the money, somehow he paid for the electricity to begin with. If you take that aside even more, it's better for him to steal five cents of electricity than drive a gasoline car, I'd gladly allow random strangers to charge from my parking lot outlets if it encouraged more people to go green. Considering tax money also gives free electricity to people who cannot afford it, hypothetically, if this guy was on a financial assistance program to pay for his utilities would it still be stealing considering the money is coming from the same place? It's not like five cents would hold either, the moment this is disputed it'd be dropped.