This is just amazing, being arrested for surfing the internet.  Imagine sitting in your car and then getting arrested.   I have done this before and also have people use my wireless connection, that is why I have it. 

If you don’t want people to use your wireless connection make it secure… if it is not secured you have in effect invited people to use it.

From  (Reuters) – LONDON

Two people have been arrested and cautioned for using someone else’s wireless Internet connection without permission, known as “piggy-backing”, police said on Wednesday.

The practice, which sharply divides Internet users, has been fueled by the rapid growth of fast wireless broadband in homes and people’s failure to secure their networks.

On Saturday, a man was arrested after neighbours spotted him sitting in a car outside a home in Redditch, Worcestershire, using a laptop computer to browse the Internet.

A 29-year-old woman was also arrested in a car in a similar incident in the same area last month.

Both received an official caution, a formal warning one step short of prosecution, for “dishonestly obtaining electronic communications services with intent to avoid payment”.

They were among the first to be arrested for piggy-backing in Britain. Gregory Straszkiewicz, from west London, was the first person to be convicted of the offence in 2005. He was fined 500 pounds and give a 12-month conditional discharge.

“Wireless networks don’t stop at the walls of your home,” said PC Tony Humphreys, of West Mercia Constabulary. “Without the necessary protection, your neighbours or people in the road outside may be able to connect to your network.”