Posted on 08/21/2008 6:09:08 PM PDT by RDTF
AUGUST 21--The next time you forget to return a couple of library books (and ignore those annoying letters about the overdue status of said volumes), think of Heidi Dalibor. The Wisconsin woman, 20, was arrested earlier this month in connection with a pair of books overdue for several months. Dalibor, who made the mistake of ignoring a court citation issued after she failed to respond to letters and phone calls from the Grafton library, was busted August 6 for failing to return copies of Janet Fitch's best-seller "White Oleander" (a 1999 Oprah Book Club selection) and "Angels & Demons," author Dan Brown's precursor to "The Da Vinci Code." According to a police report, Dalibor was apprehended at her family's home, cuffed and stuffed in a cruiser, and booked for violating the "overdue library materials" ordinance. She also had to pose for the below mug shot at the Grafton Police Department. Dalibor subsequently settled with the library by paying her overdue fines and reimbursing it for the cost of the two novels, which totaled around $180. Dalibor's mother Patty told TSG that her daughter was "a good kid" who works two jobs. She is also now the owner of the Fitch and Brown books, which Dalibor got to keep as a result of paying off her library levies
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“Hey man, don’t Bundy that book!”
Someone had to say it!
or bookstore publicity
Ping
Sound like someone else we know?
You beat me!
PING!
I say we let her off if she can prove that she actually read the books!
In Omaha, you would only be arrested if you forgot to return The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx. It’s our mayor’s favorite book.
A bit.
My daughter checked out a library book, a VC Andrews paperback, and kept it for YEARS. She moved out of the house, went away to college, got a job out of town. I found the book last year during spring cleaning and put it in the library drop box.
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The reason this aggravates me is because I often want to read certain books that are never available because deadbeats like this woman have no respect for library rules and keep their books for too long.
I think that anybody in this situation should get a minimum of 90 days in the county jail and have their library privileges revoked for 1 year. For a second offense, we need to have 5 years in the slammer and a lifetime ban at the library. For a third offense, life in prison without parole and no library privileges at the prison either.
That ought to teach them.
Based on appearances, definitely NOT GUILTY.
Based on choice of reading material, a lifetime ban on ever entering a public library.
Yup. Ignore a court order and the whole world finds out you read trash.
Bookman had some of the best lines in that episode. Pure gold. This verbal exchange for example:
BOOKMAN: You took this book out in 1971.
JERRY: Yes, and I returned it in 1971.
BOOKMAN: Yeah, ‘71. That was my first year on the job. Bad year for libraries. Bad year for America. Hippies burning library cards, Abby Hoffman telling everybody to steal books. I don’t judge a man by the length of his hair or the kind of music he listens to. Rock was never my bag. But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public Library, fella.
Geez... you can pick up a copy of either book at any garage sale for a $1... I wonder what her excuse was?
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