Posted on 04/06/2024 2:20:42 PM PDT by Twotone
A stay-at-home mother in Texas said she was shocked when she was informed that there was a warrant out for her arrest over an unreturned library book.
Kaylee Morgan said it was an oversized book for home-schooling about Vincent Van Gogh that she borrowed in 2023.
She got the bad news after trying to get her driver's license renewed and was rejected.
"When I get there, they told me they can't renew it because I have a warrant out for my arrest," the mother of five children told KPRC-TV. "I am just shocked. I literally laughed out loud. I said this has to be a joke and it wasn't."
Morgan admits that she was unable to return the book in a timely fashion because she was pregnant at the time, had complications, and also went through a move to a new residence, so she didn't receive notices about the late book. However, she feels that the consequences she is facing are far too steep.
She was charged with theft of government property and had to drive hours away to plead her case to a judge. Morgan said that the judge was completely unsympathetic to her explanations.
"It was not a pleasant experience," she said to KPRC.
Morgan told the judge that her husband had tried to return the book but that it did not fit into the drop-off box and he could not go inside because the library was closed when he went. After they returned the book, they did not receive any notices because they had moved away and believed the issue had been settled. But it was not.
"She told me to stop making excuses and I needed to take responsibility," Morgan explained. "She said it was my responsibility to update the library with my change of address because we moved."
She said she offered to pay for the book, but the judge said they were long past that point.
Morgan began a GoFundMe account to help her pay the fine and to pay for her legal expenses. She's already gotten enough donations to pay the original fine.
"I’m just a mom with 5 kids trying to homeschool and spread kindness," she wrote. "This is unjust. Please spread the word."
Already done by Seinfeld
Why wouldn’t they just bill her?
And Bookman
Violation of 8th Amendment
Because White Privilege.
Gosh.
I don’t quite know why i despise and do not trust gub mnt
She needs to temporarily identify as LGBTQ.
I have some from the 1970’s
Why am I not surprised the judge was a she?
They would probably throw away the key on me and call the news which is why they’re still overdue
Lessons learned.
1) Don’t mess with Texas. There are rules and they follow those rules.
2) Go Fund Me so I don’t have to pay for my mistakes. Good luck with that.
3) Get some cheese to go with that annoying whine.
As you are getting the book to read for free, you have a responsibility to return it in the time you are allotted to have it. Or renew it if possible.
Otherwise, get it back to the library so that others can read it.
I do not have a lot of sympathy for unreturned library books.
I have never been late returning mine.
One time however, my dog, a border collie/shepherd mix, bit repeatedly on the corner of a Civil War book called "What This Cruel War Was Over".
I sheepishly returned the dog-bitten book to the library and accepted my fate. It cost me $20 so that the library could obtain a new copy. I was allowed to take the damaged book home and it now resides in my library, a reminder of the indiscretion of my border collie/shepherd mix (name of "Dixie").
Wait she was too pregnant to return the book, but could move? And couldn’t send a kid to return the book? For a year? And what’s the list price on this book? Some school books are really expensive. This might not be just an overdue book.
When I was six years old (64 years ago), my parents took me to the library and I was allowed to check out a book ... it was a kid's book called "Marshmallow" (it was about a bunny). My two-year old brother thought it was a coloring book and proceeded to color in all of the bunnies in the book. I don't know how much it cost my parents to replace the book, but I still have the book in my library.
That escalated quickly!
Yes, the joke is the current US Government.
And the punchline is “Trust the system of justice.”
I have never in my life watched one minute of Seinfeld. Leftover from my refusing to watch TV until a couple of years ago. Which episode, please?.
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