Puts me in mind of Bookman - the hard-nosed library cop from Seinfeld.
These two with $500 and a third one with $1000 due. Hmmm, here’s an idea. Instead of leaning them more and more, how about cutting up their library card long before it reached this amount.
So, let me see if I understand this correctly... The library, feeling hard up for money, has dedicated someone who likely pulls down $500 a week in salary, and probably $400 a week in benefits, to go hunt down people who haven’t paid their fines, possibly resulting in the repayment of $2,000?
Seems to me to be a constantly losing proposition. Because the end income will always be greater than the cost of having a public employee collect it.
The liberal idiots running the libraries are not living in reality and are very hard nosed.
My oldest daughter borrowed a DVD copy of “Stripes”.
She then turned it in using the library’s drop box.
A month later she got a notice that the DVD wasn’t turned in and that the replacement fee was $100. She bought a copy ($14.99 + tax) and took it to the library as restitution. The took it as a donation and then wanted their original back plus fines.
She argued with them off and on for a year. The fines built up to $500. She didn’t pay it and they sold the $500 debt to a collection agency.
The collection agency put a bad debt mark on her credit report and she lost her student loans.
She had to take a part time job to stay in school because she couldn’t get a student loan. Her grades dropped and she struggled every year. After 3 years, her mother and I paid the %500 to the collection agency. They told us the bad mark couldn’t come off for 7 years. We hired an attorney and finally got things fixed. Total cost, about $800 plus the cost of the stupid DVD of “Stripes”.
Libraries need to have memberships like a Costco. If you don’t return the goodies and pay the fines in time, you lose the membership.