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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] Yay! Baloo has succeeded in making me feel like a throwback to earlier times.. I LIKE that incident-joke. Too bad you can't give a guy an extra ticket just for being an idiot... I could hand those things out all day! People today not only aren't willing to risk their lives, their not willing to risk their money and livelihood (or society having become as litigous as it has), or even risk inconvenience, or drawing attention to themselves. Thus, the bad guys are free to run all over us, and they know it, so they do. I got this lady (using the term very loosely) whose daughter has had 6 library books overdue for two years. She knows it, I've called her house on more than a dozen occasions, and she makes promises, but never brings them back. I even offered to ignore the fine just to get the books back. Nothing. Why? It's not that she can't get there - she has a car and makes it to the post office - right next door, it's not that she can only get there while we're closed - we have a book drop, It's that she doesn't HAVE to. We have no real way to threaten her. We could call the magistrate on this lady, because she IS violating state law, but that would inconvenience us and cost us money for the magistrate's time. We won't go into her neighborhood, because.. well, it just isn't the place nice white boys like me go to and come back, at least not unless heavily armed. (plus her address is a Post Office Box.) OH, for a Library Gestapo, or the authority to act as such... a few dozen broken knees, some busted windows and general intimidation, and I bet return rates would SOAR... *drool* What was my point? Oh, yes. The bad guys will do anything they think they can get away with, and without a unified, "this will not be tolerated" front against them, their lifestyle is just that much easier. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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