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Dead? You Still Have to Pay Library Fine
My Way News ^ | 9/26/07 | AP

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: death; fines; library; tropicofcancer; tropicofcapricorn
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To: varyouga

Leftists at work.


21 posted on 09/27/2007 12:45:30 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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To: varyouga

Just keep the book if it’s a big deal. Who cares if they keep charging a lady who has passed on?


22 posted on 09/27/2007 12:49:25 PM PDT by Reagan79 (Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys)
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To: Proverbs 3-5
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.

LOL. Funniest thing I've read all day.

23 posted on 09/27/2007 12:51:31 PM PDT by varyouga ("Rove is some mysterious God of politics & mind control" - DU 10-24-06)
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To: Hemorrhage
Heh! At least it's a real story, not a made up one.

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?

24 posted on 09/27/2007 12:51:51 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: varyouga

I would have told the heartless bastard where he could go.


25 posted on 09/27/2007 12:54:25 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (If You Support America - Thank a Soldier; If You Support Al-Qaeda - Thank a Democrat!)
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To: napscoordinator
“I was in shock,” Schaper said. “This has rocked me to my core.”

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”?

26 posted on 09/27/2007 12:56:13 PM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: waverna

>> “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.

H


27 posted on 09/27/2007 12:57:20 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor (How 'Bout Them Cowboys!!!)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

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.


28 posted on 09/27/2007 12:57:59 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Proverbs 3-5

Well worth the read.


29 posted on 09/27/2007 1:00:04 PM PDT by ansel12 (Proud father of a 10th Mountain veteran. Proud son of a WWII vet. Proud brother of vets.)
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To: Proverbs 3-5

>> 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.

H


30 posted on 09/27/2007 1:00:51 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor (How 'Bout Them Cowboys!!!)
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To: yankeedame

lol. True


31 posted on 09/27/2007 1:02:59 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: varyouga
Are you also "rocked to the core" after you see the deductions from your paycheck?

That's what I thought.

32 posted on 09/27/2007 1:04:30 PM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: yankeedame

When told to apologize by our mom my sister once replied directly at me, “You provoked me to wrath!”


33 posted on 09/27/2007 1:08:12 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: varyouga

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.


34 posted on 09/27/2007 1:09:07 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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To: dead

Why haven’t you paid your library fees???


35 posted on 09/27/2007 1:11:16 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Oh, Geesh, not THIS crap AGAIN?!?)
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To: varyouga
Way too funny. I think the idea of paying in 50 pennies is cute.

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.

36 posted on 09/27/2007 1:15:05 PM PDT by pray4liberty (Watch and pray.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Wouldn’t it feel good to pay the 50 cents? You are doing one last thing for your mother. I think I would pay it with a smile.

Yep. How many times did her mom do that for her?

37 posted on 09/27/2007 1:20:50 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: varyouga

The fine is an obligation of the estate. Upon proper published notice, credotors will be notofied to submit claims.


38 posted on 09/27/2007 1:24:16 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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To: varyouga

Don’t pay, let them revoke her library card ... that’ll show ‘em ....


39 posted on 09/27/2007 1:30:16 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress - Mark Twain")
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To: Proverbs 3-5

Well I got a flash for ya, joy-boy: Party time is over.
40 posted on 09/27/2007 1:32:28 PM PDT by ravinson
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