Florida Man Arrested On Overdue Library Book Charges

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[chance33_98]

Florida Man Arrested On Overdue Library Book Charges

Posted: 9:54 a.m. EST January 24, 2003

A man who had overdue library books was arrested. Kevin Crookman was five years overdue on returning three books to the Clearwater Public Library.

The 27-year-old had ignored a letter sent in 1998 ordering him to appear in court on the charges.

Crook was a passenger in a car pulled over by a Pinellas sheriff's deputy. When his name was run through a computer, it showed he was wanted for failing to show up in court on the overdue library book charge.

Crook spent the night in jail before a judge released him. He faces charges under a 1996 ordinance allowing libraries to prosecute the worst scofflaws in county court, where they face a 500 dollar fine per book.

However, Clearwater officials said they don't intend to pursue the charge against him, meaning it probably will be dismissed.

[moyden]

As often as libraries screw up their paperwork, I'd stay away from them.

[Boot Hill]

"A man who had overdue library books was arrested."

So what?

--Boot Hill

[Boot Hill]

"The problem with libraries is not the royalies, but the socialism."

Only the most over zealous brain-dead ideologue could oppose publicly supported libraries on philosophical grounds.

--Boot Hill

[jdege]

To him that stealeth
   or borroweth and returneth not
   this book from its owner,
let it change into a serpent in his hand
   and rend him.
Let him be struck with palsy,
   & and all his members blasted.
Let him languish in pain
   crying aloud for mercy,
& let there be no surcease to his agony
   till he sing in dissolution.
Let bookwaorms gnaw his entrails
   in token of the Worm
   that dieth not,
& when at last he goeth
   to his final punishment,
let the flames of Hell
   consume him forever.

[jdege]

I'm all in favor of publicly supported libraries, but the government is not the public.

[justshutupandtakeit]

You nailed ole TJ perfectly.

[Boot Hill]

"but the government is not the public."

Your government comes from Mars?

--Boot Hill

[Boot Hill]

"You nailed ole TJ perfectly."

Ah yes, Thomas Jefferson. The father of the American public education system, the man that wrote law permitting the castration of sodomites, and the person who just loved the French Revolution. Would that be the same Thomas Jefferson to which you refer?

--Boot Hill

[justshutupandtakeit]

No, it would be the Freeper whackjob you slammed, a guy who couldn't carry Thomas I's quill pen.

[Liberal Classic]

Who folds a leafe downe
     ye divel toaste browne,
Who makes marke or blotte
     ye divel roaste hot,
Who stealeth thisse booke
     ye divel shall cooke.

[Boxsford]

I consider libraries a socialist way of avoiding buying books

Oh please! What a ridiculous statement. The main problem with libraries is the liberal librarian association and librarians getting rid of the old classic and replacing good books with modern liberal written books. But, thankfully there are still some good ones out there. Homeschoolers make great use of library resources and there is no way our family could afford to buy all the books our children read or use from the library.

[Boxsford]

How come nobody is noticing that this guy was a passenger in the car. Since when do passengers have to turn over their licenses to a cop? Whatever would the reason be? Backseat driving?

[ErnBatavia]

Already posted and recited....here:

[Chemist_Geek]

Only the most over zealous brain-dead ideologue could oppose publicly supported libraries on philosophical grounds.

We've got plenty of those around here...

[TomServo]

Already posted and recited....here:

LOL!!!

[aimhigh]

Homeschoolers make great use of library resources and there is no way our family could afford to buy all the books our children read or use from the library.

If the Government didn't confiscate 35%+ of your wages through the various taxes and fees, and if the Government didn't tax book publishers to death, you would be able to afford the books.

[Protagoras]

Only the most over zealous brain-dead ideologue could oppose publicly supported libraries on philosophical grounds.

Thanks for your childish opinion. I have noted it, and discarded it.

TJ

[Protagoras]

We've got plenty of those around here...

A perfect compliment to the brain dead non thinkers in the forum. We have more of them.

[Protagoras]

Homeschoolers make great use of library resources and there is no way our family could afford to buy all the books our children read or use from the library.

The people who recieve the booty from the theft of others property are usually better off. If I stole a dollar from a rich man and gave it to a poor man, the poor man would be a dollar richer, but the act would still remain immoral.