From John van Someren
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Your story about “malicious consumption of electricity” (Feedback, 4 October) reminds me of a crime associated with the days of coin-operated phone boxes that took four pennies and required you to “Push button A” when you heard the person at the other end answering.
If you were caught bypassing the money box system you were accused of “fraudulently converting GPO electricity”. Precious few of the several watts involved were ever converted into sound, so I assume the legal principal of de minimus non curat lex (the law does not concern itself with trifles) was never invoked.
