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Jacksterson

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Oh ****, wrong section, can a mod move this to General?

What would you do?

A man, who has grown up with a fairly average life; he owns a house and has a wife and two kids, gets a letter in the mail. It is addressed to him, and is from the public library from his hometown. He opens it, of course, he is curious. In the letter, it states that he has an overdue book with some obscure title he can't even remember ever reading. He owes over $1,000.

Outraged, he calls the library and complains. They say there is nothing they can do to help him, and he is expected to pay, or it'll go against his credit, or be taken to court, or whatever. Anyways, after ranting about how bullshit this is, he finally calms down. "Look, dont' you have other copies of the book?" To which they replied, "Only one."

So he offers to buy a bunch more copies for them, in exchange that they take away his fee. The librarian says no, and he says why not? "The book hasn't been checked out once since you took it."

I'd promptly say to the old hag "THEN WHY THE HELL ARE YOU MAKING A BIG DEAL ABOUT THIS!"


What would you do?

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Evlesoa

Sue the dumb ***** and fight my way through with a commy sickle

scycry

get all of your connections and brake the librarians hands

Oisterboy

I'd burn the library down.


Also; I doubt they would have a court case. Take them to court, they've got nothing if nobody checked the book out and he offered to buy multiple copies of it.

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BGLamb

These stories are entirely fictional.

Libraries do not do these things.

As Oister said, they would have no court case. That is not a fair fine. If you loose the book, they cannot keep charging you. You pay for the book. End of.

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Jacksterson

Obviously, you've never had this happen to you.

Especially if you want to make something of yourself IRL. Its a competitive world, and people will dig up all sorts of crap about you. These kinds of things can bite you in the *** when you least expect it. Trust me.

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witness

Unless...Unless... It's some sort of evil library organization that doesn't play by the rules and makes your life miserable by lying about the fines to keep it on your conscience. Also if you are a sap and pay up, they profit.

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zipykido

My mom constantly forgets to return books. The library never charges you more than the book costs itself these days. Although back in the old days I think it just keep accumulating.

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BGLamb

Ok, maybe it's different in the US, but over libraries are government run organisations that have to abide by certain rules. They are not out to make profit. Libraries could never do this over here, and I'm fairly sure that it wouldn't happen elsewhere.

Regardless, no court in the world would make you pay that fine. My library has a fixed limit on penalties stated on the contract I signed when I joined. Any library that tried to hold you to a contract that would fine you $1000 for loan of a book would be laughed out of court. That is what is called in the lagal profession an "Unfair Contract".

But if you like to belive that these things happen in real life, then go ahead.

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Jacksterson

I was just posing a fictional story for the board, I don't really believe this would happen IRL, (although something similar DID happen to me with the school library)

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