Another pervert caught masturbating in a libary. These are some mighty tricky pervs, "tailgating" their way thru the securtiy system to get access to some porn. Yeppers, even with a high tech security card system installed to gain access to the building, would be secret agents slip on in easily... by simply following the person in front of them.

Me thinks this security system was not entirely thought-thru.

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I also wonder why the frequent trips to the bathroom? The article states he ran off regularly to the bathroom only to return and continue pleasureing himself. I am no expert on male plumbing (ok, maybe a little) but would you not just stay put by your source of visual stimulation until such time as the stimulation has served its purpose? Crazy people antics, always interesting.

The very last line in the article kind of rubs me the wrong way tho....

"I'll never say never, but I'd be surprised if another one [incident] like that happens," he said about the masturbation incident earlier this month.

Smaller incidents have been handled internally.

What? Am I the only one that thought that could have been worded just a little better?

Another Warrant Issued - Strange Bias Continues

It happened again, somebody got into trouble with the law for stealing library books. This time it is 21 year old Victoria Rogers. You can read about it here and here.

And yet again, there is a clear bias against the library for putting a warrant out for a poor single mother. This just chaps my ass. If single mom had just so happened to forget a DVD in her purse from Wal Mart, the same thing would happen. So why is keeping a library book permanently any different? Some of you may be thinking "because she paid for the book with tax money so it is hers already!". Well, yes and then no. Yes, she did pay for the book, but you conveniently left off how much of the book she paid for. Lets examine that for one second....

The City of Killeen Public Library brings in $1,294,710 a year. City population is 102,003. That is about $12.70 per year per person goes to the library... or about $1 a month. The library has a materials budget of about $157,840 a year. There are 102,012 items in the library. So every person spends about $1.57 a year on books. Lets just keep it simple and assume every book is replaced every 5 years. That gives us an inventory value of about $789,200. Divide that by the number of people in Killeen and you have $7.73 which is the amount each citizens has invested in the total collection specifically. Therefore Victoria owns about $0.009 of the book she stole ($7.73/$789,200). We can round up to 1 cent to keep it easy.

Yep, she paid for 1 cent of the book. I think that pretty much proves it is a collective book and not her own. Not that anyone was debating this fact.

I read her case closely, and it seems there was indeed another party involved, her ex husband. It seems this stellar individual went ahead and kept all the communication from the library a secret from his ex wife. I guess the moral to this story is fill out a change of address form as soon as you move out of your ex's house.

$13 or Goto Jail - Jail FTW!

Another patron gets into trouble with overdue books. This time it is Shelly Koontz from Jesup Public Library. It would appear that Koontz was making some sort of statement when she chose jail time over a $13 library book. I figure the statement was something along the lines of "I like to make bad choices in life, here is another".

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The library stated that arresting somebody over an overdue book is unusual, but there were some extenuating circumstances. I would love to know what those were. I suspect she had used up all her friends on the library staff. Kinda like spitting on a cop and wondering why you get arrested. I know at my library it is very difficult to get arrested. You have to pretty much threaten somebody or go completely nuts... which happens. I would like to take a moment and point out the arresting officer. This was the actual picture they used in the article. Sgt. Boos looks way too happy for this to be an appropriate picture,,, either that or the arrest of Koontz marks a happy day in Jesup. His name seems appropriate in a way, at least from Koontz's perspective.

I also included a police report. I found the part about the derelict cars in the front yard to be,,, interesting,, if only for the mental picture it provided me.

Bomb Blown way Out of Proportion

I have seen patrons get upset about fines they have generated, but this individual takes it to a whole new level. Tonya Butts managed to rack up some fines for keeping her materials out too long. Instead of throwing a hissy fit at the volunteers running the front counter, she instead went ahead and issued a bomb threat.

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There are couple fascinating facets to this story. I would like to start with the mental logic used by this Butt. I just cannot grasp how one makes the leap from "I was late with some books, so I may complain" to "I am going to go ahead and do something that will for sure get me arrested, making things 10x worse". But she did it. And it did.

Second, the manner in which she issued the bomb threat is quite unique. Normally, to make a proper bomb threat, you call it in. That way, the odds of you getting arrested decrease significantly. What you don't typically do is trot on in there all uppity and submit it at the counter personally. She did. Hard core! ...and she was promptly arrested with $3500 bond.

There was never a bomb.

She should do what everyone else does....

smear fecal material all over the bathroom walls or pee into the book drop.

Rude library patron arrested

I am a sucker for stories about nutjob patrons. This latest story comes to us from Boston.

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It would seem that Tommy was having a bad day. He decided that it would be best to go ahead and start throwing pencils around and spitting at people to ensure that it would get worse.

It did.

He got himself arrested.

Not a surprising story, but entertaining for sure.