I'm pleasantly surprised they were book and not DVDs.

Um,

You haven't other "crime" to fight?

Sheesh.

;)

I suppose the officers needed to strip search her for the officer's safety, and prevent the transport of contraband.

Who else would the library send to get the books? Article says they put the effort into trying to get them back, but weren't getting results. It's not like the police charged anyone, they just got the books (and the overdue charge). Seems like a success story.

Am I missing something here?

FTA:

The library receives no federal funding and relies on memberships, donations, and a secondhand shop to survive.

Uh, doesn't the town fund this? I live in a state (CT) where I think every single town has a town-funded public library. Some have several. Our town has three, and the town I grew up in has three also. They are not large towns. Is this not normal?

AlwaysRightBoy: Indubitably: Sheesh.

;)

go with it

;)

I didn't need yer encouragement or mock,

but I love yer knock,

so while love abounds,

recall: mind winds...;)

over a 204-day period

The child had borrowed "Sleeping Beauty," "Corduroy's Halloween," "Dora The Explorer: The Halloween Cat" and "I See The Moon."

Geez. How long could it take you to read those?

And our library system here is much more forgiving. I've gone in many times and (if I'm not using the self-checkout) they'll remind me I have late fees and ask if I want to pay them. "I'd rather not right now" always seems to be acceptable.

The_Eliminator: Am I missing something here?

FTA:

The library receives no federal funding and relies on memberships, donations, and a secondhand shop to survive.

Uh, doesn't the town fund this? I live in a state (CT) where I think every single town has a town-funded public library. Some have several. Our town has three, and the town I grew up in has three also. They are not large towns. Is this not normal?

I've spent a TON of time working on the task of calling every public library in my state, and discovered my home town wasn't on the list so I called there... turns out it's a private library, funded solely by donations and fundraisers. It does happen.

Photo of the heroic entry team.

But don't expect them to come around if someone stole your bike and put it up on craigslist.

Do they also send the police after 40 year old adults?

And $0.10 a day? That's hardly enough to make people return books. I think my university did more than that PER HOUR a book was over due. I don't remember what my local library does, but I think it's in the range of $0.50 a day. With a $25 cap per item.

I love FARK. Such fascinating topics, Was she wearing a hoodie?

Was the lead officers named Montag?

/slightly obscure.

Some states just go out of their way to make the rest of humanity look bad.

...actually I'm having a time finding a state that doesn't.

This is the time to intervene, while she's an impressionable child.

Don't wait until she's a drug-dealing grandma to lock her up.

STOP RESISTING!!! -spray- STOP RESISTING!!!! - beat-

AlwaysRightBoy: Indubitably: AlwaysRightBoy: Indubitably: Sheesh.

;)

go with it

;)

I didn't need yer encouragement or mock,

but I love yer knock,

so while love abounds,

recall: mind winds...;)

I'm not here to knocker your obvious man boobs!

;)

Ah!

The American-diss.

Yo, Francis, on an even field...

Mind wins.

Submitted First With a Better Headline: But don't expect them to come around if someone stole your bike and put it up on craigslist.

This. I had a friend who actually watched as thieves stole the muffler off his VW. Wrote down their license plate and everything. Cops were like "Sorry, nothing we can do since the value is less than $X".

How many bullets did they use?

BarkingUnicorn: The_Eliminator: Am I missing something here?

FTA:

The library receives no federal funding and relies on memberships, donations, and a secondhand shop to survive.

Uh, doesn't the town fund this? I live in a state (CT) where I think every single town has a town-funded public library. Some have several. Our town has three, and the town I grew up in has three also. They are not large towns. Is this not normal?

Yes, it is normal to fund benefits for some with money extorted from all. But this library, founded in 1937, gets by on voluntary donations.

You're talking about a farkING LIBRARY!

Indubitably: AlwaysRightBoy: Indubitably: AlwaysRightBoy: Indubitably: Sheesh.

;)

go with it

;)

I didn't need yer encouragement or mock,

but I love yer knock,

so while love abounds,

recall: mind winds...;)

I'm not here to knocker your obvious man boobs!

;)

Ah!

The American-diss.

Yo, Francis, on an even field...

Mind wins.

P.S. I stand with my muscle everyday, you?

This is serious business. From a USA Today article:

Urban combat is one of the most difficult assignments for ground troops. ... Once the outer wall is breached by supporting armor, assault teams throw grenades ...

The breaching and assault teams are constant risk from residents wielding slippers as well as from the ear-rending piercing screams wielded as booby traps by young children. It takes a rare breed to carry out such a demanding and difficult mission.

Image of one of the assault team members after the operation:

4 year olds don't have to return library books. Silly cops.

Police sent to collect overdue library books from IRRESPONSIBLE PARENT OF 4-year-old girl

FTFY, subby & media.
But that doesn't generate clicks, does it.

The point of a library is that you borrow and return so others can read. It is not a free book gift shop.

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Then I saw little Katelyn. I'm thinking, y'know, four-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books? She about to start some shiat, Zed. She's about four years old, those books are WAY too advanced for her. If you ask me, I'd say she's up to something.

I got searched two blocks from my house, back when I was 15 (1990). According to the officer, there were some break-ins in the area, and he thought I looked suspicious "with my backpack" (whatever that means). I was more than happy that day to let him search my bag to put his mind at ease. He was confounded to find I had a copy of 'Quantum reality: beyond the new physics' by Nick Herbert in my backpack. "What is this?" He asked with a tone that declared he 'knew' it was not mine. "It's a book on quantum physics." I said. "You're reading this?" He asked, still with the tone of disbelief. "Yeah, Somehow it just makes sense."
He let me go soon after, and I am pretty sure it shook up his day and made him feel stupid.
I laughed my ass off at that part of MIB.

Indubitably: Um,

You haven't other "crime" to fight?

Sheesh.

;)

According to Wikipedia there's all of 1,962 people living in the town.

So yeah, actually. Maybe there really isn't any crime to fight.

this sounds like a right turn up for the books!


_{/dear brits; did I do that right? Love, Mekka.}

I used to work at 2 different libraries for a few years back in the day.

THIS SOUNDS LIKE BULLSHNICK TO ME

there is no way any library would ever charge a patron MORE than what the book cost to purchase from the distributor.

$81 for four kids books which probably cost less than $10?

ridiculous. I dont believe it.

What, no Speaker's Companion or Best Loved Poems of the American People in there?

//obscure, I know.

The_Eliminator: Am I missing something here?

FTA:

The library receives no federal funding and relies on memberships, donations, and a secondhand shop to survive.

Uh, doesn't the town fund this? I live in a state (CT) where I think every single town has a town-funded public library. Some have several. Our town has three, and the town I grew up in has three also. They are not large towns. Is this not normal?

I live in a little backwater town in the northern California moutains, there is a library that serves two towns both pop. approx. 400. It is staffed by volunteers and funded only through donations, it works ok, not great but ok. We have internet computers at the library but no real rrference dection. So it does happen.