Thursday, December 9, 2010

"Overdue"

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/12/95-year-old-calif-woman-returns-library-book-overdue-74-years/1

A 95-year-old woman returned a library book 74 years overdue to the Amador County, CA public library. The fine was $2,701, but the library waived it. They felt they had to. It was either that, or kill her for the life insurance.

Worst for the woman, the book leaves a cliff-hanger ending continued in a sequel.

As a punishment, the library has suspended her borrowing privileges for 30 days. Or life, whichever comes first.

To conceal her impropriety, the woman was tempted, at one point, to just steal the book’s record out of the card catalogue. To which all the librarians said, “What’s a card catalogue?”

The library is only upset that the story made it into the news. They would have preferred to handle the matter quietly.

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