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| Temple Road Peak |
When you find an Octopus card, never pick it up. If you do,
and worse, use it for purchases, it could land you in jail.
Roel Galanza, 43 and unemployed, found an Octopus card at a public
toilet and used it to purchase $59 worth of goods. He was charged with theft on
two counts as Eastern Court, pleaded guilty and sentenced to jail for two months.
Galanza was charged with violating section 9 of the Theft
Ordinance for which he pleaded guilty.
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The first charge arose after Galanza found and kept one
Anonymous Elder Octopus Card and one JoyYou card, the property of Tow Peraya, outside
public toilets of Tin Hau Temple Road Garden, Tin Hau Temple Road, North Point last
April 6.
The next day, he made a HK$59 purchase, an amount owed by Octopus
Cards Limited to the cards’ owner.
After he pleaded guilty to both charges, Principal
Magistrate David Cheung sentenced him to four weeks imprisonment for stealing
the cards, and two months imprisonment for using them, both sentences to run at
the same time.
He was also made to pay compensation of $59.
In his court appearance today, it was also found that he had 20 previous convictions.
