For want of two overdue paperbacks, a Wisconsin woman (left) was arrested and thrown in jail for failing to return library books. Thanks to the Smoking Gun, we know those books were the incredibly popular WHITE OLEANDER and ANGELS AND DEMONS.
I have to laugh because the town in which avid reader Heidi Dalibor was arrested is literally one town over from where I grew up. You know how small towns have rivalries? We always used to pick on Grafton because of its sad-sack downtown and its depressing little mall (about to be demolished), even though the two towns are practically twins.
Grafton's a lot nicer than it used to be with the addition of a fancy wine store and an Alterra (and the Target!) but now we have new ammunition against it, peculiar and draconian lending policies. Heidi, you seem like a good person at heart, shake the dust of Grafton off your feet! That's from one Wisconsin girl to another.
2 comments:
She doesn't look too upset about it!! LOL
don't know why you're disparaging that library's policies. what would the library's situation be like if every patron behaved like this scofflaw? someone may have wanted to read those books while she was hanging on to them, making public property her own.
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