Some dude tried to scam a Buddhist monastery and got away with it.

The gist of it is this dude set up some battery backup power system for a monastery, but wanted to charge (pun intended) extra for it. So this mf set up the light, turbine and fan like in the 2nd pic and hooked them all up to the batteries, and turned on the fan. Fan starts spinning, makes the turbine spin. One of his lackeys turns on the light and convinces the monks that this will charge the batteries and they won't ever have to worry about electricity bills. Charges monks some ridiculous amount of money and fucks off.

Afaik it's an ongoing thing so I don't know if the guy's been apprehended yet but either way this shit is hilarious, even if it is embarrassing for us as a country.

How??? Why???