December 16th, 2007 @ 10:20 pm
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Electricity firm breaks into house to change meter - even though homeowner is NOT a customer | the Daily Mail
Electricity giant E.ON applied for a warrant to forcibly enter Anna Tonkin’s 18th-Century cottage in Bunwell, Norfolk.They persuaded a magistrate to issue a court order which allowed them to pick her locks and let themselves into her home.They mistakenly believed Ms Tonkin and her husband Mike Dongelmans were behind with their payments and used locksmiths to open their front door and install a pre-payment meter to control their electricity supply.
someone commented
‘An Englishman’s home, is his castle’ Except in modern day England, obviously.
- Derek Jones, Stoke on Trent
I think that I would be really pissed off, and it would take more than $500 to calm me down, especially since they did it “legally.”
