Originally Posted by
seaskybound
Ptravel question to you:
If you walk into a lounge, there is no lounge dragon at the moment and you walk in. As it turns out you had no right to be there. is that theft of service?
Substitute for "lounge" something like "movie theater," "aircraft," "theme park," etc. What do you think?
Theft of service is, I expect, a "general intent" crime, meaning only that you intended the conduct that was criminal, as opposed to intending to do specific harm (a "specific intent" crime). If you can convince a trier-of-fact that you held the subjective belief that the lounge was open to all for free, and that belief was objectively reasonable, no crime would be committed. Good luck with that, though.
