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(Mirror.co.uk)   Library patron returns book anonymously to avoid nearly 43 years worth of overdue fines. Lt. Bookman approves   (mirror.co.uk) divider line
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1869 clicks; posted to Main » on 07 Feb 2023 at 1:20 PM (7 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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RoboZombie
2023-02-07 1:32:55 PM  
Oblig
Seinfeld - The Library Cop
Youtube D9tP9fI2zbE
 
Thosw [BareFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:36:50 PM  
Bookman?  Oh, you must mean ole Buffalo Butt!
 
LordOfThePings [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:39:50 PM  
We do not have checkout records that go back that far

Should check with the caveman librarian.

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zeroflight222
2023-02-07 1:40:48 PM  
Oblig... though I've never seen the numbers line up so closely before.

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Rapmaster2000
2023-02-07 1:43:33 PM  
Party time is over, joy boy.
 
PirateKing [BareFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:44:28 PM  
Aint nothin gon' happen.

/this is the thread where we complain about the unfair justice system right?
 
stuffy
2023-02-07 1:47:14 PM  
Book?
 
dr_iacovone
2023-02-07 1:48:27 PM  
Married with Children - Al returns a Library Book
Youtube _hG1GIyXL_o
 
natazha [BareFark]
2023-02-07 1:49:08 PM  
43 years ago? The book probably has a little card in a pocket with the loanee's library card number on it, so they could find out if they wanted.
 
BunchaRubes
2023-02-07 1:50:38 PM  
My college sent me a letter demanding I return a pile of overdue books and pay some idiotically high late fees otherwise they wouldn't let me graduate.

The books were checked out over 2 years after I graduated, lol, and certainly not by me.  It was almost amusing to deal with - over the phone they just refused to believe me and would hang up on me before i could explain I hadn't been on campus in 2 years.  I had to go into the library for some face to face and even then I had to deal with student drone, then employee drone, then the head of the damned library.
 
Nirbo
2023-02-07 1:51:51 PM  
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pastramithemosterotic
2023-02-07 1:57:38 PM  
Were there drawings of peepees and weewees in it too?
 
foo monkey
2023-02-07 1:58:22 PM  

zeroflight222: Oblig... though I've never seen the numbers line up so closely before.

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He should stop skipping leg day.
 
Glockenspiel Hero [OhFark]
2023-02-07 1:58:43 PM  
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wegro [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-07 1:59:14 PM  
"Look. If you think this is about overdue fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is about that kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or maybe that turns you on, Seinfeld; maybe that's how you get your kicks. you and your good-time buddies. Well, I got a flash for ya, joy-boy: Party time is over."
 
IdentInvalid
2023-02-07 1:59:25 PM  
One of these days, I need to have a chat with my local library system.  Two books, 25 years.
 
kdawg7736 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 2:02:48 PM  
Better late than never.
 
Mambo Bananapatch [BareFark]
2023-02-07 2:05:07 PM  
Mirror huh? I call bullshiat.
 
ohokyeah
2023-02-07 2:14:41 PM  

IdentInvalid: One of these days, I need to have a chat with my local library system.  Two books, 25 years.


If they are still in print, maybe buy them and donate them to the library so they have them?
 
Fano
2023-02-07 2:16:40 PM  
His name was Sam Peebles.
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-07 2:16:51 PM  

RoboZombie: Oblig
[YouTube video: Seinfeld - The Library Cop]


The fact that Jerry struggles to keep a straight face in the take they used shows that there are probably a ton of takes where Jerry loses it.
 
EasilyDistracted [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-07 2:19:31 PM  

Mrtraveler01: RoboZombie: Oblig
[YouTube video: Seinfeld - The Library Cop]

The fact that Jerry struggles to keep a straight face in the take they used shows that there are probably a ton of takes where Jerry loses it.


Great comedian...horrible actor.
 
qlenfg
2023-02-07 2:21:01 PM  
Somewhere I have a 2nd grade reading book that accidentally got packed when we moved, and I cried when my mom had to tell the school and pay $2 or so for the book. From that day, on, I have always respected books and taken good care of them, especially if they were borrowed. One day, I will find that book, and send it back to the school.
 
yakmans_dad
2023-02-07 2:23:36 PM  
They built a new library on campus off of my overdue fines. I finally had to go to Library Borrowers Anonymous and admit I had no control over my book borrowing habit.
 
Brofar
2023-02-07 2:25:39 PM  
If they're missing the book, they either know who has it and would know who has it when it's turned in, or they don't know who has it and weren't going to fine anyone anyway, so really, this person was probably fine either way anyway and stressed out over nothing.
 
JessieL
2023-02-07 2:30:08 PM  

Hinged: PirateKing: this is the thread where we complain about the unfair justice system right?

Library fines are racist.


/or so it has been written... possibly in a library book


Given that the notion that library fines are racist seems to trigger one of fark's biggest racists; I'm going to go ahead and believe it's true.
 
bucket_pup [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 2:38:14 PM  
We never found the body - just that book and these dog tags from the burned out cabin of Captain Tuttle.
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knobmaker
2023-02-07 2:50:37 PM  

PirateKing: Aint nothin gon' happen.

/this is the thread where we complain about the unfair justice system right?


Maybe they'll get the Trumpster on library fines.
 
quo vadimus
2023-02-07 2:55:52 PM  
They don't want the book back. They want the book back as much as you or I would want a borrowed t-shirt back 43 years later. We've replaced it, several times over, including with t-shirts of higher quality. What you've done is drive out of your way to say "here, you throw this away."
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-07 3:43:09 PM  

EasilyDistracted: Mrtraveler01: RoboZombie: Oblig
[YouTube video: Seinfeld - The Library Cop]

The fact that Jerry struggles to keep a straight face in the take they used shows that there are probably a ton of takes where Jerry loses it.

Great comedian...horrible actor.


I think Jerry himself would agree with that.
 
likefunbutnot [OhFark]
2023-02-07 3:50:37 PM  

BunchaRubes: The books were checked out over 2 years after I graduated, lol, and certainly not by me.


I had something like that happen. Someone, I'm guessing a library employee or volunteer, checked out a bunch of CDs and movies using my library card. Happened in my hometown, while I was very definitely in college on the other side of the state. When I went to get a new card after I graduated and was told I'd have to pay hundreds of dollars in fines before I could check out books again.

I'd never checked out a movie, but my musical tastes didn't magically shift from the classical music I'd been getting to Metallica and Quiet Riot. I argued about it at just about every level within the library organization itself and just never got anywhere.

They didn't believe me and I continue to not have a library card, even decades later.
 
steklo [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 3:59:12 PM  
My friend gave me a library book in 1982 or so. I don't know where he got it and I don't want to return it in case his name was on the library card from way back when.

I don't want him getting in trouble in case he was the one who borrowed it originally.
 
drxym
2023-02-07 5:07:26 PM  
AJP Taylor, the historian author of the book used to do these amazing history monologues on TV in the 70s. Basically just faced the camera for 30 minutes and talked uninterrupted, without script about that week's topic.

1 From French Revolution to French Empire
Youtube lzvse8bZ-Fc
 
El Rich-o
2023-02-07 5:15:30 PM  
"...makin' the scene..."
 
Vern
2023-02-07 6:53:33 PM  
Odd, the library in the city I live completely did away with late fees years ago. And if you already had late fees, which I did, I forgot to return a Charlie Chaplin Collection DVD, and I moved, and found it a few months later, they were forgiven. I assume they'd rather just get their shiat back if possible. And they probably need to justify funding based on the number of people with memberships who actively use the library, and if people just stop going because they have late fees, they probably end up losing funding.

My Aunt is Head Librarian in another city, and they did away with late fees years ago for those reasons.


Oh, and the library is still a necessary public service, even if most people have internet access. The homeless people need some way to watch porn too.
 
SBinRR [OhFark]
2023-02-07 9:22:09 PM  
When I was about 8 years old I had an overdue book I was terrified to take back, because I calculated it would cost about $5.00 in fees (1974 dollars). Might as well had been $5000 in my mind.

Turns out I hadn't mastered math yet, and when I recalculated it, I owed around 40 cents.
I returned it that afternoon.
 
NathanAllen
2023-02-08 6:53:06 AM  
When I was a Page at the local library one of my coworkers was a book thief. She would sneak anywhere from three to five books out of the library at the end of each shift.

I was aware of this, but did nothing because she was an incredibly popular student at another highschool who would have made the rest of my girlfriend's highschool experience very painful.

My experience tells me that libraries are seedy joints staffed by lunatics.

I admit, I might be extrapolating based solely on my experience.
 
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