Well I got a flash for ya, joy-boy: Party time is over.
Posted on 09/27/2007 12:26:32 PM PDT by varyouga
HARRISON, N.Y. (AP) - Even the dead apparently have to pay the fines on their overdue books at one Westchester County library. Elizabeth Schaper said she was charged a 50-cent late fee while turning in a book that her late mother had checked out of a Harrison Public Library branch.
"I was in shock," Schaper said. "This has rocked me to my core."
Schaper's mother, Ethel Schaper, died at the age of 87 on Sept. 16 after suffering a massive stroke. A few days later, Schaper said she found a library book, "The Price of Silence," by Camilla Trinchieri, that her mother had checked out from the library.
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"I told him that maybe he didn't hear me right, that my mother had just died, otherwise I'm sure that she would have returned it on time," Schaper said. "His only reply was that, 'That will be 50 cents.'"
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Leftists at work.
Just keep the book if it’s a big deal. Who cares if they keep charging a lady who has passed on?
LOL. Funniest thing I've read all day.
Just goes to show you when the gub'mint's in charge of everything, not even death is an escape.
Is Harrison near Ithaca, by any chance?
I would have told the heartless bastard where he could go.
This women clearly does not have a life if this has rocked me to her core.
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It's not only that, but how many times in your life, factoring all you've have gone through, have you ever used the term: “This has rocked me to my core”?
>> “I was in shock,” Schaper said. “This has rocked me to my core.”
That’s a pretty fragile core.
Rocked to the core over fifty cents?
People will whine and complain about anything ... and some here actually seem to think this is liberalism run amok. Its not.
Liberalism is bitching and moaning to the local paper about FIFTY CENTS! I lost 65 cents in a snack machine 25 minutes ago ... I’m still waiting on my call from the Houston Chronicle.
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Take the book to the executor along with a written demand for the fifty cents and present it to him.
If he already has completed probate he will also have the forms presented to him for payment after the public notice of death and time to claim was filed.
If the library made no claim, they can request the book back from him and lose out on the fine.
So I was led to believe.
Well worth the read.
>> BOOKMAN: ... I’ve seen your type before: Flashy, making the scene, flaunting convention. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. What’s this guy making such a big stink about old library books? Well, let me give you a hint, junior. Maybe we can live without libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we’re too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers?
This even READS funny! Bookman, the library cop ... one of my favorite Sienfeld bit-parts.
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lol. True
That's what I thought.
When told to apologize by our mom my sister once replied directly at me, “You provoked me to wrath!”
Tell the bum at the counter to ‘charge it to the dust, and let the rain settle it’.
The damn library doesn’t need it’s ‘overdue fines’ THAT badly.
Screw those pointy-headed pseudo-intellectual gasbags.
Why haven’t you paid your library fees???
If this lady was named as her mom's Executrix, she is going to be in for a lot more shocks than a 50 cent fine.
Yep. How many times did her mom do that for her?
The fine is an obligation of the estate. Upon proper published notice, credotors will be notofied to submit claims.
Don’t pay, let them revoke her library card ... that’ll show ‘em ....
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