30 October 2009

Rogue censor strikes Columbia, Tennessee library system


An unknown patron of the Maury County Library has been crossing out words in his or her borrowed books before returning them. The library is keeping the books in circulation because it can't afford to replace them, so other patrons will have to guess what dirty word was used in THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT.

It's not clear to me why, if librarians know which books were defaced, they can't just compare circulation records and single out the patron who recently checked out all those books. (And then go to that patron's house and spray-paint a giant obscenity on it. Censor this, you clod!) But to whoever's doing this, a much better prank would have been to just black out random words and make future readers confused.

Graphic: questionabletopic

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