Overdue Library Books: Borrowers Arrested for Failing to Return Overdue Books, DVDs
Handcuffed and in the back of a police cruiser, Aaron Henson wracked his brain trying to figure out how a simple speeding violation had led to his arrest.
The answer from the Colorado State Patrol stunned him. Henson never returned the DVD he'd checked out of the Littleton library, and there was a warrant out for his arrest.
“I was just shocked,” he said. “I was like 'What? I've got a what now?'”
After spending eight hours in a county jail, during which time he was fingerprinted, photographed and booked, Henson's father bailed him out. He had tried calling his mother for help, but she didn't seem to believe him, telling Henson there was no “book police.”
But indeed there is. Towns across the county, frustrated with trying to replace wayward materials on a shoestring budget, have turned to issuing citations, court appearances, even reporting the offending library patron to their credit bureaus.
via Overdue Library Books: Borrowers Arrested for Failing to Return Overdue Books, DVDs – ABC News.
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