Wisconsin woman, 20, arrested for two overdue library volumes

The Smoking Gun ^ | Aug 21, 2008 | not specified

[Caramelgal]

Well this is no joking matter. LOL

…was arrested earlier this month in connection with a pair of books overdue for several months. Oh the great horrors against humanity!

I understand your "point" but I think this is a quite a bit excessive.

…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

What did her arrest, the cost and time and wages of the policemen, the booking and processing and other such administrative costs, cost this town in comparison to the actual cost of the books? When does not returning a library book elevate to the same sort of treatment that a real criminal would get – a drug dealer, a child molester, a drunk driver, a burglar? There is no more serious crimes to prosecute in this town that over due library books?

Geeze, just give her a citation or even a wage garnishment, but to come to her home and handcuff her and haul her off to jail because she deprived someone of their “right” to read "White Oleander" or "Angels & Demons" for free? Some of us would say that anyone who is that desperate to read those books might deserve to be hauled off somewhere.

[Army Air Corps]

Some of us would say that anyone who is that desperate to read those books might deserve to be hauled off somewhere.

Someplace where the walls are nice and soft.

[PLMerite]

“Green Eggs and ANFO” would get all kinds of attention.

[PLMerite]

I’m still thinking about “cuffed and stuffed” from post #8.

[Army Air Corps]

Yeah, it does tend to stick in ones mind, does it not?

[B4Ranch]

>Her eyes are uneven as well, in a Shannen Doherty way. Her left eye is higher than her right.<

That’s the kind of thing you see in bullriders who have had the snot stomped out of them too many times.

[GregoTX]

"Dalibor, who made the mistake of ignoring a court citation issued..."

Ignore a court citation... go to jail. Surprised?

[Ptarmigan]

Why is she smiling in a mugshot? I never heard of anyone getting arrested for overdue books.

[cherry]

she didn't "Steal" the books....she took them out honestly......its not like going to a bookstore and taking off with a couple of books.....

of all the ridiculous things to follow up on...two books.....

White Oleander is several years old and it probably was loaned out infrequently the last few years.....the other book, I don't know.....but they are just TWO books....

libraries don't automatically replace books.....they may never replace some books.....

this is all a bunch of hooey..

[adopt4Christ]

LOL!!! You’re crackin’ me up with your story! You are a brother indeed! Sounds like you could go on a world cruise with the $$$ you owe on library books! So funny! Thanks for lightening things up. Today — and this week — have been intense. We’re only moving across town tomorrow, but you’d think we’re moving to Africa, with all there is to do.

I agree — I’m just SURE it was definitely their error. :-)

[I Drive Too Fast]

Dumb dumb ping

[4yearlurker]

Looks like this is a job for Library Police from an early Second City episode. They burst through the door with guns drawn as John Candy sat in his reading chair. However he turned the tables when he held the business end of a pistol to a dictionary. The LP backed off...he was just crazy enough to do it!

That being said the young lady in the mug shot looks like the lights are on but nobody is home.

[Larry Lucido]

Roscoe Karns, you are now on our “list”! Mr. Brightside named names!

[Larry Lucido]

Pinging the “gang.” Anyone up for a conjugal visit?

(Seifeld Ping List)

[windcliff]

She sure looks happy.

[windcliff]

ping

[Gamecock]

Library cops...

[lowbridge]

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 once went to my local library to borrow some books and videos. When I went to the counter to check them out, behind the counter on a chair was a video copy of the latest release, the Austin Powers movie, Goldmember. I pointed to it and asked the librarian if I could borrow that as well. She said to me that I couldnt because it was brand new and not yet "in the system". She told me that I would have to come back in a couple of days and then I could borrow it. I thought to myself that the person who manages to rent it out first, isnt bringing it back. Sure enough, the very person who managed to get his hands on it first never returned it. I wound up buying myself a DVD copy of Goldmember at a video store a few months later.

[Roscoe Karns]

you are now on our “list”..

Thanks-- An even greater honor than pretending to be an architect!

[onedoug]

Heck, I’d better get Dr Faustus back to the library.