Posted on 12/20/2023 11:05:34 AM PST by Red Badger
Dec. 20 (UPI) -- A book checked out for two weeks from a Massachusetts library was returned 90 years later after turning up in Washington, D.C.
The Watertown Free Public Library said in a Facebook post that the book, Hill Towns of Italy by Egerton R. Williams Jr., was checked out Jan. 30, 1934, and was supposed to have been returned 14 days later.
The book's journey back to the library turned out to be far longer, however, as it only made its way back to the facility this week after a "far-flung patron" found it in Washington and dropped it off at the library during a trip to Boston.
"According to the policy pasted inside this book, this patron would owe us [approximately] $656," the post said. "Fortunately for them, we no longer charge late fines!"
New York libraries no longer have fines. It's not a big deal.
According to the book, there is nothing to rent in Tuscany.
You are posting a thread every time someone does this.
It is a meaningless story.
Nice cover story.
I had a library book that I lost so had to pay the library the cover price to replace the book. Then I later found the book in some luggage. The library would not take it back and told me to keep it.
So now, a hundred years from now, after I'm dead, one of my grandchildren will find this book and try taking it back to the library, which will surely rattle some cages.
Nonsense. This story has just as much meaning as a story about National Cherry Pie day!!!!
A little fun with inflation.
The $656 works out to about a 2 cents per day fine for 32,812 days late.
Applying inflation to the 2 cents would give us about an equivalent fine of 46 cents per day.
At 32,812 late days, the fine would be $15,093 in todays dollars.
i swear, i don’t see how both those actors didn’t crack each other up laughing!
One of the classics.
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