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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.

I know your post is a joke, but is it really true that you have never paid a library fine for a late book? You’re kiddin’, right? That isn’t human. You obviously have no children.

I am a VERY organized single homeschooling mother of four. I could go on a weekend vacation on what I’ve paid out in library fines in my lifetime.

Well this is no joking matter... For a third offense, life in prison without parole and no library privileges at the prison either.

That ought to teach them.

Try the decaffeinated, and if you really really just have to read a book there is always Amazon.com.

Well this is no joking matter... For a third offense, life in prison without parole and no library privileges at the prison either.

That ought to teach them.

Try the decaffeinated, and if you really really just have to read a book there is always Amazon.com.

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.

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.