Re: cutting your own phone lines is a felony?

[Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>]

If all he cut was the telco portion between his house and the street,
not affecting other subscribers, then the real charge should be
vandalism; cutting off his wife's service as well as his own
makes a pretty dodgy felony case.  (He should have just told the
phone company to cancel his service, which would have been no crime at all,
albeit slightly unAmerican, but it was probably something done
during a long-running family argument.)

There are also some interesting multicultural values issues here,
given that it's someone named Yoder in Ohio, which is the
less conservative part of Amish country...

At 09:19 PM 2/28/99 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
>Ohio man cuts wife off the Internet 
>Friday, 26 February 1999 20:03 (GMT)  (UPI Spotlight)
>   MEDINA, Ohio, Feb. 26 (UPI) - An Ohio prosecutor says (Friday) a
>grand jury will be asked to indict Scott Yoder, 37, for cutting his own
>telephone wires to keep his wife from shopping on the Internet and
>ignoring her family. Yoder faces a felony charge of disrupting public
>services.
> http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=66013


				Thanks! 
					Bill
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