Narrowboat attack over loss of Wi-Fi

A 14 YEARS old boy was using a narrowboat's Wi-Fi connection, but took umbrage at it moving off from its mooring in Castlefield Basin in Manchester, so losing his free connection.

He leapt on the boat, pushing the owner aside, grabbed the keys out of the controls and threw them in the basin and wrecked the controls to prevent it moving, Alan Tilbury tells us.

Arrested

He then picked up stones and hurled them at the boat, but the police were called, with the teenager arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and assaulting two people, and was kept in police custody for questioning.

The teenager was on a supervised outing at the time, but obviously not supervised enough, and lost his temper when he realised he was about to lose his free Wi-Fi signal.