People who steal from the library are scum.

[TheMightyFavog]

They deserve to be publicly beaten. The lot of them. :mad: :grr:

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. People use to slice pics from art books. They still doing that?

[Brickbat]

3. I did that once.

There weren't even any bewbs in the picture.

[TheMightyFavog]

6. Not where I work. Our problem is with people stealing CDs.

I hope we don't have to keep the discs behind the desk like we do with DVDs. Digging out DVDs is a big enough pain in the ass.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. Odd coincidence...

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...and I was standing in the stacks, I was suddenly struck with the
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I could think of several reasons -- NONE of them worth a damn.
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But public beatings? Um...
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That what stocks are for.
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[TheMightyFavog]

7. Stocks or pillories would be kind of fun...

A lot more interactive punishment. Ans opportunities for small business as one could make a killing selling rotten fruits and vegetables to throw at the people locked in. And then... Compost!

[pokerfan]

4. Being accused of not returning is no picnic either

I've been accused (and fined) several times for failing to return items only to have the "missing" items surface later. I've tried to return material to the desk (so I could get an acknowledgement of the return) only to be told that I must drop them in the bin and just trust them, I guess.

[LisaL]

8. Happenned to me also.

The library claimed I did not return the book. I told them I returned it, they told me it was not in the library, and they claimed they checked the shelf for it. I had to go up there and find the book personally-it was on the shelf, before they agreed that I actually returned it.

[Odin2005]

12. I was accused of not returning "Decline of the West" a few years back.

I grabbed both volumes of it off the shelf at put them right in front of them, made them STFU real fast.

[Posteritatis]

5. Got burned pretty nicely by one of those dolts during my undergrad...

Some whacktivist decided he was going to steal and destroy books on a variety of topics he didn't think should be discussed in any context. Played merry hell with my ability to do thesis research.

He bragged about it, too.

[Chan790]

9. Was the subject at question "Objectivism" or Ayn Rand?

If so, I'm sorry. I do think that people shouldn't read Ayn Rand though.

[Posteritatis]

10. Nah, eugenics

I was studying early 20th-century views on mental illness, which blend into the growth of the eugenics movement. This guy believed that to read about a subject is to advocate it, so he started destroying books on eugenics to "protect" the student body from being exposed to wrongthink, or mere discussion of it.

[MrsBrady]

11. not recently, but I've worked in 2 different university libraries on the same campus..

and also worked for a city library in a DFW suburb.

Oh the things I could tell you that we would find.

not to mention things people DO in the library.

*facepalm*