I wonder how much it cost to arrest her, charge her and jail her?

Really, "Saira"? *sigh*

/unconventional spelling just makes your parents look like dumbasses

Why was she allowed to check out FIFTY-THREE of them?

And people wonder why there's downloading of films?

No late charge, arrest, jail-time, mug shot on news, Fark.

Ow My Balls: Why was she allowed to check out FIFTY-THREE of them?

I have that same question.

Ow My Balls: Why was she allowed to check out FIFTY-THREE of them?

Because 54 would have just been silly.

Duh.

Ow My Balls: Why was she allowed to check out FIFTY-THREE of them?


Because she's called Saira, dammit!

Hyphenated last names bother me. Just pick one already!

As a small video store owner, I'm getting a kick.

Cagey B: I wonder how much it cost to arrest her, charge her and jail her?

About zero. Their salaries are already paid out of a pre-approved budget. The cost of replacing 53 DVDs little miss twatwaffle took? Not in the budget.

OMG, these hyphenated people move into town and the whole neighborhood goes to shiat.

Ow My Balls: Why was she allowed to check out FIFTY-THREE of them?

She was too busy putting on make up and doing her hair to bother with NetFlix.

She's pretty cute in a mousy chick with a cold sore kinda way.

I'd check her out for a while but I'd have to know what here tastes in movies were first.

GungFu: Ow My Balls: Why was she allowed to check out FIFTY-THREE of them?


Because she's called Saira, dammit!

Sara? (new starship window)

So, and this is purely hypothetical, if I was in possession of 51 library movies I'd still be in the clear. Right?

Ow My Balls: Why was she allowed to check out FIFTY-THREE of them?

THIS

/librarian in a former lifetime.
//get off my lawn
///return my dvds

I suspect no one would've noticed if she downloaded 53 movies to her computer.

I can't believe that nobody at the library thought it suspicious that someone would want to borrow that many movies at one time. They just figure she was reeeeally bored?

With a name like that, she's definately bat shiat crazy.

oh yeah, and would not hit.

she looks worser in the pic in oh-enough-already's entry. she looks peretteir in the vid clip. why is that?
still...pretty hot for a fat chick.

Oh_Enough_Already: She's pretty cute in a mousy chick with a cold sore kinda way.
I'd check her out for a while but I'd have to know what here tastes in movies were first.

yogurt

I've gotten certified letters from the library for having books too long and then taken them back.

But FFS,53 DVDs and not taking them back?

Maybe she was trying to make some really nutty stand about....uhh...something.

In the early 1990s I lived in France (Normandy) for a few months as a sort of au pair to an American family with four young kids.

We went to the next town over to the library, got cards, borrowed some books. Because the house was so very chaotic all the time (I said I was sort of an au pair: the mom would never let me do my freaking job), the books got scattered around and misplaced and shoved under beds, etc.

About three months later, there was a knock on the door. It was the two library ladies who had come to GET their books back. They waited quite a while during the mad scramble to find all the books. They even had a list to make sure they got everything. If there's anyone you wouldn't want to cross, it'd be stern, disapproving, older French library ladies who don't care much for Americans anyway.

/French library police

25 bucks per dvd? haven't these libraries ever heard of wal-mart? they could save 20 bucks on every dvd they buy....that's the REAL crime here, the city is overpaying by 4x for every dvd they buy for their library. sickening waste of taxpayer money.

Ow My Balls: Why was she allowed to check out FIFTY-THREE of them?

Dunno, my library limits you to 10.

Jashter: I can't believe that nobody at the library thought it suspicious that someone would want to borrow that many movies at one time. They just figure she was reeeeally bored?

Maybe she used a self-checkout machine. Maybe the library doesn't have a cap on the amount of material issued. Public libraries naturally require an element of trust, but people have to understand that it's their credit report at risk if they don't pay their fines or it's their liberty at stake when they steal public property.

untaken_name: 25 bucks per dvd? haven't these libraries ever heard of wal-mart? they could save 20 bucks on every dvd they buy....that's the REAL crime here, the city is overpaying by 4x for every dvd they buy for their library. sickening waste of taxpayer money.

Depending on the library, they may have cataloguing and processing man-hours tied up in getting the item ready for the shelf (selection - is it appropriate for the collection? Is it catalogued to AACR2 standards? Are the MARC fields conformed to? Does it have the appropriate Library of Congress subject headings?). Then there's processing - affixing tattle-tape or RFID tags. This can be done by a shelf-ready service in a lot of cases, but you get extra expense there too. Not to mention checking the disc is in its case, that it's undamaged and giving it a clean if necessary (especially important for kid's material. It's not just a naked cost of buying it in a shop.

/why yes, I am a librarian - no longer in a public library, though

You know she sold them on CraigsList for some quick Twinkies & Oreos cash.

"Don't you know the dewey decimal system?!?"

thisispete: untaken_name: 25 bucks per dvd? haven't these libraries ever heard of wal-mart? they could save 20 bucks on every dvd they buy....that's the REAL crime here, the city is overpaying by 4x for every dvd they buy for their library. sickening waste of taxpayer money.

Depending on the library, they may have cataloguing and processing man-hours tied up in getting the item ready for the shelf (selection - is it appropriate for the collection? Is it catalogued to AACR2 standards? Are the MARC fields conformed to? Does it have the appropriate Library of Congress subject headings?). Then there's processing - affixing tattle-tape or RFID tags. This can be done by a shelf-ready service in a lot of cases, but you get extra expense there too. Not to mention checking the disc is in its case, that it's undamaged and giving it a clean if necessary (especially important for kid's material. It's not just a naked cost of buying it in a shop.

/why yes, I am a librarian - no longer in a public library, though

Yes, and lawyers justify charging $100 for a full hour just for making a 5-minute phone call. That doesn't mean the DVDs cost 25 bucks each. And, I'm sorry, but if it takes you $20 worth of time to label and alphabetize a dvd, you are either way too stupid to be a librarian, or you're GROSSLY overpaid.

Quit yanking my pics, modtards.

They are probably DVD's she objected to anyone else watching so to keep the 'children' safe from their content she decided to keep them.

/just supposing

unicornrider: They are probably DVD's she objected to anyone else watching so to keep the 'children' safe from their content she decided to keep them.

/just supposing

Nah, thankfully we don't have those kind of crazies here in Iowa City.

The only time something like that would ever happen would be not because a book or DVD portrayed gay sex, or sacrilegious images, or terrible violence but if said books or DVDs portrayed gays, or Christ diddlers or car jackers in an "unflattering" or "unsympathetic" or "intolerant" light.

Yeah, we're chock full of crazies in this town but they're all from the faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar left side of the crazy pool.

And besides, I'm pretty sure I've seen her in the Deadwood drinking Makers (and may have even hit on her in a drunken haze) so I doubt she's a Christer.

/if there's a better Public Library in the country than Iowa City's I've yet to visit it.
//Give us back our DVDs, toots!

Sass-O-Rev: Ow My Balls: Why was she allowed to check out FIFTY-THREE of them?

THIS

/librarian in a former lifetime.
//get off my lawn
///return my dvds

last I checked you can only get 1-3 depending on how old they were. Usually just checked out Audiobooks for trips or reg books

one of you guys said you would hit that, which proves you'll stick it anywhere.

/shameful

Mad Scientist: Really, "Saira"? *sigh*

/unconventional spelling just makes your parents look like dumbasses

I thought that also, but Saira is an Indian name.

VelmaCruise: one of you guys said you would hit that, which proves you'll stick it anywhere.

/shameful

Was this ever really in question?

As far as questionable "would hit" chicks go on Fark she's better looking than most.

/shame is the new pride

I can't ever quite grasp the idea of stealing from a library. Are people unclear on the concept that you can borrow the same item more than once?

Oh_Enough_Already: Quit yanking my pics, modtards.

50% biatch, 50% crazy.

i've never really understood why libraries got into borrowing out popular hollywood DVDs. there are video stores for that. furthermore, i fail to see how Wedding Crashers or season 8 of Law & Order count as the sort of thing which a library should own.

VelmaCruise: one of you guys said you would hit that, which proves you'll stick it anywhere.

/shameful

I think there are a lot of guys that prefer this

to this


...but they'll never admit it.

unicornrider: They are probably DVD's she objected to anyone else watching so to keep the 'children' safe from their content she decided to keep them.

That hadn't occurred to me, but she does have that sanctimonious look to her...

december: i've never really understood why libraries got into borrowing out popular hollywood DVDs. there are video stores for that. furthermore, i fail to see how Wedding Crashers or season 8 of Law & Order count as the sort of thing which a library should own.

So, no books then either unless they're heavy "litarature?"

Nothing that's just entertainment or escapist fantasy?

The ICPL has 8 shelves of graphic novels and trade-paperbacks also - a real comic reader's paradise.

I suppose they should get rid of those, too, right?