Coppers crack down on broadband thieves

23 Aug 2007 | 07:15 BST

By Nick Farrell

Does not matter if it is insecure

ROZZERS IN BLIGHTY have decided that enough is enough and are starting to finger the collar of those using a lappy* to access an unsecured wireless connections.

A 39-year-old man Chiswick bloke was seen by community support officers sitting on a wall outside a house in West London. He admitted using the owner's unsecured wireless internet connection without permission and was arrested on suspicion of stealing a wireless broadband connection.

According to ITN News the move is the latest example of police cracking down on a crime that did not exist several years ago.

Detective Constable Mark Roberts, of the Met's computer crime unit, warned anyone who illegally uses a broadband link faces arrest.

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* Unable to find any real news in the silly season the other plaice has decided that they will attempt to purge the word lappy from colloquial usage and is hectoring its reader until he stops using it. We will continue to use the word if it gets the other plaice cross and continue to let our readers hector us instead. Or Hector.

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