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Wisconsin woman, 20, arrested for two overdue library volumes
The Smoking Gun ^ | Aug 21, 2008 | not specified

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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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Local News; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: angelsanddemons; davincicode; donutwatch; library
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To: RDTF

“Hey man, don’t Bundy that book!”


21 posted on 08/21/2008 6:28:43 PM PDT by dfwgator ( This tag blank until football season.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Someone had to say it!


22 posted on 08/21/2008 6:28:54 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
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To: Revolting cat!

or bookstore publicity


23 posted on 08/21/2008 6:29:00 PM PDT by RDTF (my worst nightmare is being on jury duty sequestered with 11 liberals)
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To: RDTF

24 posted on 08/21/2008 6:30:39 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
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To: knittnmom

Ping

Sound like someone else we know?


25 posted on 08/21/2008 6:31:40 PM PDT by Ellendra (Most eco-freaks wouldn't know nature if it bit them on the butt . . . and it often does!)
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To: Mr. Brightside

You beat me!


26 posted on 08/21/2008 6:31:55 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
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To: RDTF
looks like 20 year old heidi like bars and nascar-lookin dates. ha! this photo is the best i could do. i dont think this will be heidi's last run in with the law.


27 posted on 08/21/2008 6:32:49 PM PDT by thefactor (i am submarinerswife new tagline! come get me!)
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To: Army Air Corps; The Spirit Of Allegiance
"Open and shut case. Book her.."

PING!

28 posted on 08/21/2008 6:33:20 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
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To: Artemis Webb
I can feel the vacuum from here.
Heidi is not a bright bulb.

I say we let her off if she can prove that she actually read the books!

29 posted on 08/21/2008 6:33:51 PM PDT by hunter112 (The 'straight talk express' gets the straight finger express from me.)
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To: RDTF

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.


30 posted on 08/21/2008 6:33:53 PM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: dfwgator
“Hey man, don’t Bundy that book!”

One of the best episodes.
31 posted on 08/21/2008 6:34:56 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Ellendra

A bit.


32 posted on 08/21/2008 6:35:12 PM PDT by knittnmom (FReeper formerly known as 80 Square Miles)
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To: RDTF

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.


33 posted on 08/21/2008 6:35:12 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: thefactor

link! link!


34 posted on 08/21/2008 6:37:26 PM PDT by RDTF (my worst nightmare is being on jury duty sequestered with 11 liberals)
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To: RDTF
Well this is no joking matter. I am a regular visit to my library and I faithfully return all my books on time. In 33 years of library-going, I have yet to have an overdue book. In fact, I return most of my books before they are due.

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.

35 posted on 08/21/2008 6:38:21 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 8 days away from outliving Kirby Puckett)
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To: Army Air Corps

Based on appearances, definitely NOT GUILTY.

Based on choice of reading material, a lifetime ban on ever entering a public library.


36 posted on 08/21/2008 6:38:41 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (His Negritude has made his negritude the central theme of this campaign)
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To: RDTF

Yup. Ignore a court order and the whole world finds out you read trash.


37 posted on 08/21/2008 6:38:56 PM PDT by kimmie7 (My brother - my hero.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

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.


38 posted on 08/21/2008 6:39:01 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Based on choice of reading material, a lifetime ban on ever entering a public library.

BTT. Her choice of "literature" is poor. Dreadful, in fact.
39 posted on 08/21/2008 6:41:40 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: RDTF

Geez... you can pick up a copy of either book at any garage sale for a $1... I wonder what her excuse was?


40 posted on 08/21/2008 6:42:54 PM PDT by John123 (Obambi said that he has been in 57 states. I will now light myself on fire...)
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