What cheeses me off on some of these stories is what I see as selective enforcement.
Granted, these people were at fault, but twice I have been to my small town Nevada library and seen some Mexican child walk in with a waist-to-chin stack of DVD that were overdue with the excuse “we have no mon-eee” - and the librarian rolls over. Note, the parents sit in the car and send the kid in.
I asked the librarian how they could take out so many DVDs (our limit is seven) and she said “multiple cards”. The Free Pass excuse? “Well, they are poor people” (the parent’s car was a late-model Toyota).
The library could at least then suspend the cards so no new borrowing. That forces the perps to go through the hassle of applying for new cards with fake ids and addresses.