ARRESTED!—For two overdue library books
Wisconsin woman, 20, arrested for two overdue library volumes
AUGUST 21--The next time you forget to return a couple of library books (and ignore those annoying letters about the overdue status of said volumes), think of Heidi Dalibor. The Wisconsin woman, 20, was arrested earlier this month in connection with a pair of books overdue for several months.
Dalibor, who made the mistake of ignoring a court citation issued after she failed to respond to letters and phone calls from the Grafton library, was busted August 6 for failing to return copies of Janet Fitch’s best-seller “White Oleander” (a 1999 Oprah Book Club selection) and “Angels & Demons,” author Dan Brown’s precursor to “The Da Vinci Code.”
According to a police report, Dalibor was apprehended at her family’s home, cuffed and stuffed in a cruiser, and booked for violating the “overdue library materials” ordinance.
She also had to pose for the below mug shot at the Grafton Police Department.Dalibor subsequently settled with the library by paying her overdue fines and reimbursing it for the cost of the two novels, which totaled around $180. Dalibor’s mother Patty told TSG that her daughter was “a good kid” who works two jobs. She is also now the owner of the Fitch and Brown books, which Dalibor got to keep as a result of paying off her library levies.
Absolutely incredible.
I was just thinking about giving several boxes with books to the library. I’ll certainly NEVER get a book from a library again.
This is a Grafton city ordinance, a town apparently run by a bunch of NAZIS.
But that’s the trend across America. I hear Alex Jones’ statements about police brutality, setups and more and more laws to control and humiliate us. And I often find it hard to believe, but then you watch videos and read the official press releases, and it’s true.
CHANGE this system NOW or go to jail for not paying parking tickets, utility bills and eventually, your credit cards or mortgage.
Of course this is one more reason for the essentially judgment-proof to STOP paying unsecured debt NOW!!!
—before you’re shipped off into labor camps to work off the debts when you CAN’T pay because you lost your job, got ill, or for whatever other reason.
Don’t think that it can’t happen.
Chances are, you WILL be forced to default sooner or later if you have large credit card debts.
When you can be arrested for two (not 200) books overdue by a few months, anything can happen.
I sure hope that at least a few readers will send this URL to the morons of Grafton. I’d do it myself, but don’t know which “Grafton” this is.
Posted by Christine on 08/21/2008 at 01:22 PM
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Tough Law. Better buy those books rather than borrow them.
